Archive for the 'Diversity' Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

University of Minnesota Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadline: October 31 in 2008
Length: 1 year
Comments: “The most competitive candidates in last year’s competition combined the fellowship’s three priorities and contributed to increasing the representation of underrepresented groups in their academic field of study”; must be US citizen or permanent resident; apparently ABDs may apply
URL: http://www.grad.umn.edu/postdocfellowship/index.html

University of Rochester Douglass Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadline: January 31 in 2009 (announcement for 2010 not yet posted)
Length: 1 year
Comments: For “scholars who hold a Ph.D. degree in a field related to the African and African-American experience”; must have PhD before beginning fellowship
URL: http://www.rochester.edu/College/AAS/fellowships.postdoctoral.php

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 [...]

University of Minnesota Postdoctoral Fellowship

Deadline: October 31 in 2008 (competition for 2010-11 not yet announced)
Length: 1 year
Comments: All fields; Ph.D. (or comparable terminal degree in professional and artistic fields) must have been awarded within three years prior to the fellowship appointment; diversity initiative; US citizens and permanent residents only
URL: http://www.grad.umn.edu/postdocfellowship/

College Art Association Professional Development Fellowships

Deadline: The fellowship program has been temporarily suspended for 2009.
Length: Unstated
Comments: For students in Art History or Visual Arts who will complete their PhDs or MFAs during the calendar year 2008; must be US citizen or permanent resident; must have financial need; “may have been underrepresented in their field due to race, religion, gender, age, [...]

Five Colleges Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline: December 1
Length: 1 year
Comments: For “scholars from under-represented groups, and/or scholars with unique interests and histories, whose engagement in the Academy will enrich scholarship and teaching”; must be at dissertation completion stage
URL: http://www.fivecolleges.edu/academic_programs/academprog_fellowship.html

American Musicological Society Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship

Deadline: January 15 in 2009 (”For 2010, applications will be due about 15 December 2009″)
Length: 1 year
Comments: “for a student at a North American University who is a member of a group historically underrepresented in the discipline, including, in the U.S., African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans, and, in Canada, visible [...]