Archive for the 'Dissertation Write-Up' Category

Cambridge Junior Research Fellowships

Deadline: TBA; variable in 2008-9 (information for 2010-11 not yet updated)
Length: 3 years
Comments: Various posts offered by Churchill College, Fitzwilliam College, Murray Edwards College and Trinity Hall
URL: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/fellows/junior_research_fellowships.php

Oxford Junior Research Fellowships

Deadline: TBA; December 8 in 2008 (2010-11 information not yet updated)
Length: Unknown
Comments: Opportunity offered by Christ Church, Merton College and St John’s College; Details of Fellowships available in 2010 will be posted later in 2009
URL: http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/461/Research%20fellowships.html

Darcovich Memorial Doctoral Fellowship

Deadline: March 1
Length: 1 year
Comments: Fellowship is “awarded annually to a student writing a dissertation on a Ukrainian or Ukrainian-Canadian topic in…education, history, law, humanities, arts, social sciences, women’s studies, library sciences”; “all …degree requirements [except the dissertation] must be completed by the time the award is taken up”; “Canadian citizens and permanent residents of [...]

University of Toronto Doctoral/Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies

Deadline: February 27 in 2009 (2010 announcement not yet posted)
Length: 1 year
Comments: For support of work “related to the history, culture, literature, religion or thought of the Jewish people”; open to “candidates working on doctoral dissertations as well as to post-doctoral applicants”
URL: http://cjs.utoronto.ca/node/76

College of St. Rose CREST Diversity Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline: December 18
Length: 1 year
Comments: “Potential fellows’ dissertations should be influenced by some of the following research agendas: race, racial identity, race relations, ethnicity, colonialism, state formation, Diaspora societies, borderlands, and citizenship in regional, national, trans-national, littoral, or comparative contexts”; candidates must have “admission to degree candidacy before the dissertation fellowship is awarded and approval [...]

Cambridge-Darwin College Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellowship

Deadline: Notice as of 10/2: “There are currently no vacancies available.”
Length: 3 years, renewable for a 4th
Comments: For “research into the ancient history of the Mediterranean world and/or the near East, down to the end of the 6th century AD”; “The Fellowship is intended for an outstanding researcher who is completing, or who has recently [...]

NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity Fellowship

Deadline: November 30
Length: 2 years, possible extension to 3
Comments: Designed to attract students and early-stage scholars of “different races and ethnic groups, nationalities, gender identities, age, abilities, political beliefs, spiritual beliefs, economic status, and sexual orientation [to] contribute to an intellectually challenging and inclusive educational environment”; open to “graduate students in the final year of [...]

CCWH Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship

Deadline: September 1
Length: N/A; worth $1,000
Comments: To be awarded to an “A.B.D. woman graduate student working on a historical dissertation, not necessarily in a history department. Applicants working on issues of race are particularly welcome”; must be a member of the Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH)
URL: http://theccwh.org/awards.htm

Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline: April 20
Length: 3 quarters
Comment: For work on a dissertation with a “central focus [on] issues related to race or racialized groups”; must be formally admitted to candidacy at time of application; must be in residence during fellowship period and contribute to the intellectual life of the CSRPC; may not engage in “remunerative activity”; [...]

James C. Hormel Dissertation Fellowships in Lesbian and Gay Studies

Deadline: March 31, 12:00 PM
Length: 1 year
Comments: For work on “dissertations in lesbian, gay, and queer studies”; must participate in the intellectual life of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project and the Center for Gender Studies; may not engage in other “remunerative activity” during fellowship period
URL: http://genderstudies.uchicago.edu/grad/fellowships.shtml