Archive for the 'Citizenship restrictions' Category

Duke Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadline: January 15
Length: 2 years
Comments: Must complete/have completed doctoral degree between July 1, 2007 and July 1, 2010; US citizens and permanent residents only; “the goal of the program is to increase the diversity of scholars” at Duke and peer institutions
URL: http://www.postdoc.duke.edu/provost.html

Ernst Mach Grant for Research in Austria

Deadline: March 1
Length: 1-9 months (short-term research given priority)
Comments: “Applicants must not have studied/pursued research/pursued academic work in Austria in the last six months before taking up the grant”; must have been born on or after October 1, 1974; good knowledge of German required; all nationalities except Austrian
URL: http://www.cas.umn.edu/awards/OTHER.HTML#mach

Kenyon Yarbrough Teaching Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline: January 4 (review begins)
Length: 1 year
Comments: Open to all fields; intent to attract “members of underrepresented groups”; must be ABD; open to US citizens, nationals, permanent residents, refugees, and those granted asylum
URL: http://www.kenyon.edu/x27112.xml

PASSHE Douglass Teaching Scholars Summer Program

Deadline: November 6
Length: 1 summer
Comments: “Applicants must be U.S. citizens. Enrollment into a doctoral program required and ABD or current doctorate degree preferred; academic background in one of the fields taught”; ” We encourage applications from diverse candidates, especially candidates from historically under-represented groups who will enrich the cultural diversity of our Universities.”
URL: http://www.lhup.edu/equity/frederickdouglass.htm

Swarthmore Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender/Sexuality Studies

Deadline: November 30
Length: 2 years
Comments: “Fellows must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents intending to pursue a career in the United States and must have finished the Ph.D. no more than five years prior to the appointment in August 2010.”
URL: http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000609781-01

Hispanic Scholarship Fund Graduate Scholarship

Deadline: December 15
Length: N/A; $1,000-5,000
Comments: Must be US citizen or permanent resident of “Hispanic heritage”; must “[b]e pursuing first undergraduate or graduate degree’; must fill out FAFSA
URL: http://www.hsf.net/Scholarships.aspx?id=460

Sorrento Lingue Scholarship

Deadline: February 27 in 2009 (2010-11 announcement not yet made)
Length: 6 months
Comments: For “Italian language and culture study in Sorrento, Italy”; must be US citizen; “Basic knowledge of the Italian language preferred”; must have at least one Italian or Italian American grandparent
URL: http://www.osia.org/public/scholarships/study_special.asp

National Sporting Library Daniels Fellowship

Deadline: February 1
Length: Up to 12 months
Comments: For research on “horse and field sports”; eligible fields include history, literature, journalism, art history, anthropology, area studies, and history of sport; “Legal U.S. citizens and residents may apply for fellowships for periods of 12 months or less”
URL: http://www.nsl.org/fellowship.html

University of Minnesota Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadline: October 1 in 2008 (2010-11 announcement not yet made)
Length: 1 year
Comments: Goal of “increasing the representation of underrepresented groups in their academic field of study”; “applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents…the Ph.D. (or comparable terminal degree in professional and artistic fields) must have been awarded within three years prior to the fellowship [...]

UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadline: November 2
Length: 1 year with possible 1-year renewal
Comments: “The program currently solicits applications from individuals committed to careers in university research and teaching, and whose life experience, research or employment background will contribute significantly to academic diversity and excellence at the Berkeley campus”; must be US citizen or permanent resident at the time of [...]