Dissertation Writing Awards Directory
These are only a selection of the opportunities available to you.
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General Grant Opportunities for Different Disciplines
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowships [Women doctoral candidates]
- American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Junior Research Fellowships [Activity Location: India]
- Calgary Institute for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship
- Fulbright Grants
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program
- Harvard University, Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiations Graduate Research Fellowships
- Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities
- McNeil Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS) Fellowships and Research Opportunities
- Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (VFH) Research and Writing Fellowships [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowships for Young Scholars
Agriculture and Food Sciences
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowships [Women doctoral candidates]
- National Needs Graduate Fellowship Grants - Special International Study or Thesis/Dissertation Research Travel Allowances
American Studies
- Fellowships in American Civilization - Lehrman Institute of American History, Gilder
- Legacy Fellowship [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture Dissertation Fellowship
- Newcomen Society of the United States Dissertation Fellowship
American History
- Alfred E. Driscoll Dissertation Prize
- Fellowships in American Civilization - Lehrman Institute of American History, Gilder
- Huggins-Quarles Award [Applicants must be minority graduate students]
- Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowships
- La Pietra Dissertation Travel Fellowship
- Legacy Fellowship [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Lerner-Scott Prize
- Miller Center of Public Affairs Fellowships, University of Virginia
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Dissertation Year Fellowships
- Newcomen Society of the United States Dissertation Fellowship
- Reese Fellowship [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- White House History Fellowships
Anthropology
- Cultural Anthropology Grants
- Dissertation Fieldwork Grants - Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Pre-Dissertation Fellowship in Anthropology [Activity Location: Europe]
Archaeology
- Dissertation Fieldwork Grants - Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship [Activity Location: Italy]
- Jacob Hirsch Fellowship [Activity Location: Greece]
- Samuel H. Kress Fellowship - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)
- Kress Fellowship in the Art and Archaeology of Jordan [Activity Location: Jordan]
Architecture
- Carter Manny Award - Graham Foundation [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Samuel H. Kress Fellowship - American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)
Arts
- Douglass Foundation Fellowship in American Art
- Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
- Carter Manny Award - Graham Foundation [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- David E. Finley Fellowship
- Drawn to Art Fellowship
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
- Kress Fellowship in the Art and Archaeology of Jordan [Activity Location: Jordan]
- Ittleson Fellowship - Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA)
- Paul Mellon Fellowship
- Samuel H. Kress Fellowship
- Swann Foundation Fellowship [Projects in the field of caricature and cartoon]
- Wyeth Fellowship
Asian Studies
- Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCKF) Doctoral Fellowships [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
Biology
- Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIGs) in the Directorate for Biological Sciences
- Predoctoral Fellowships [Tropical Biology; Activity Location: Panama]
Biomedical Research
- Manitoba Health Research Council (MHRC) Ph.D. Dissertation Awards [Activity Location: Manitoba]
Business, Management and Commerce
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowships
- Plossl Doctoral Dissertation Competition APICS Educational and Research (E&R) Foundation
- State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Awards
Canadian Studies
- Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) Dissertation Award
- John Bullen Prize - Canadian Historical Association (CHA)
Cartography
Computer Engineering
Economic History
Economics
Economics Studies - Developing Countries
- African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Ph.D. Thesis Research Awards [Activity Location: Africa]
Education
- Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) Dissertation Research Fellowship
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowships
- American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grants
- AERA/OERI Dissertation Grants Program
- Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Dissertation Fellowship Program
- Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges Dissertation Fellowship
- Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
- Distinguished Dissertation in Teacher Education (DDTE)
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program
- Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Melvene D. Hardee Dissertation of the Year Award
- Phi Delta Kappa International Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
Awards - Pi Lambda Theta Awards
- Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education
- Stephen Botein Fellowships [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
Environmental Planning or Policy
- Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Dissertation Fellowships [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
Environmental Sciences
- Joseph L. Fisher Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
- Political Economy Research Center (PERC) Fellowship Programs [Activity Location: Montana]
Foreign Language Education
Forestry and Woodlands
- John G. Bene Fellowship in Social Forestry - International Development Research Centre (IDRC) [Citizenship or Residency: Canada]
Gender Issues
Geography
- Association of American Geographers (AAG) Research Grants
- Geography and Regional Science (GRS) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards
- Hodgson Memorial Fund
- Otis Paul Starkey Fund
- Paul Vouras Fund [Preference is given to minority student applications]
Geoscience
- Chrysalis Scholarship Fund - Association for Women Geoscientists Foundation [Applicants - Women Graduate Student]
Government Studies
Health and Medicine
- AHRQ Grants for Health Services Research Dissertation
- Colgate Palmolive Fellowship to Support Dissertation Research in Nutrition and Oral Health/Dental Education [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Dissertation Fellowships - American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- Dissertation Research - Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Susan G. [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Doctoral Dissertation Award for Arthritis Health Professionals [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Jean Hankin Nutritional Epidemiology Fund Award
- Lung Health Research Dissertation Grant
- Ph.D. Dissertation Awards - Manitoba Health Research Council (MHRC)
Personnel Awards [Activity Location: Manitoba] - Predoctoral Research Training Fellowships - Epilepsy Foundation [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Promotion of Doctoral Studies Scholarship - Foundation for Physical Therapy
- Research Training Awards: Dissertation Awards [Doctoral candidates must be residents of the state of California]
- Ross C. Purse Doctoral Fellowship
- UNCF/Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowships
[An applicant must be African American] - Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants [Women's Health]
[Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
History
- Dissertation Year Fellowship - North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) [Activity Location: United Kingdom]
- Jacob Hirsch Fellowship [Ancient or Classical History, Activity Location: Greece]
- Joyce Tracy Fellowship [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship [Ancient or Classical History, Activity Location: Italy]
- Miller Center of Public Affairs Fellowships, University of Virginia
- Phi Alpha Theta Doctoral Scholarship Awards
Industrial Engineering
- Doctoral Dissertation Grants - Institute for Supply Management (ISM)
- Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award - Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
Information Science
- Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship
- Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Eugene Garfield - ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award - Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
- Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship
International Relations or Diplomacy
- Albert Gallatin Fellowship in International Affairs [Activity Location: Switzerland]
International Studies
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program - 84.022A
- UC MEXUS Grants for Dissertation Research
Journalism
Latin American Studies
Law
- American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowships
- Edward S. Corwin Dissertation Award
- Personnel Security Thesis, Dissertation, and Institutional Research Awards, United States Department of the Interior (DOI)
- United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Research Fellowship Program
Library Science
- Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship - American Library Association (ALA)
- Eugene Garfield - ALISE Doctoral Dissertation Award - Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
- Stephen Botein Fellowships [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
Marine and Ocean Sciences
Mathematics
Mass Communication & Mass Media
- Joyce Tracy Fellowship [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Nafziger-White Dissertation Award - Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
Medical Sociology
Medicine and Health (see Health and Medicine)
Medical Informatics
Meteorology
Middle Eastern Studies
Music, Musicology or Music Theory
Nursing and Nursing Education
Parapsychology
- Frances P. Bolton Fellowship - Parapsychology Foundation, Inc. [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
Philosophy
Physics
- Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics
- Atomic, Molecular or Optical Physics Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
- Beam Physics Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
- Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
- Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award [Experimental Particle Physics]
- Nicholas Metropolis Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Computational Physics
- Nuclear Physics Dissertation Award
Psychology
- American Psychological Association (APA) Dissertation Research Awards
- Clara Mayo Grants [Social Psychology]
- Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award
- Martin E.P. Seligman Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) Dissertation Award
- William James Awards
Political Science
- American Political Science Association (APSA) Dissertation Awards
- Miller Center of Public Affairs Fellowships, University of Virginia
Public Administration & Public Policy
- Harold Lasswell Award - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Dissertation Awards - Ph.D. Dissertation Award - Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)
- Miller Center of Public Affairs Fellowships, University of Virginia
Rhetoric
Religious Studies
- Dissertation Fellows Program
- Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) Dissertation Series Award
- Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) Dissertation Year Grant
- Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture Dissertation Fellowship
- William James Awards
Social Sciences
- Calgary Institute for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellowship
- Dissertation Fellowships - American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- Dissertation Fellowships - Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
- Henry A. Murray Dissertation Award Program
- Larry Metcalf Exemplary Dissertation Award
- Martin Levine Dissertation Award [Topics: (1) the sociology of sexualities, (2) the sociology of homosexuality, (3) HIV/AIDS research]
- Phi Alpha Theta Doctoral Scholarship Awards
- Terence K. Hopkins Dissertation Award
Social Work
- Hartford Doctoral Fellows Program [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
Urban Planning or Policy Studies
- Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for the Best Dissertation in Planning
- Carter Manny Award - Graham Foundation [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]
- Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program
- Early Doctoral Student Research Grant - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- Urban Politics Best Dissertation Award
Women's Studies
- Lerner-Scott Prize
- Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants [Please check with IP Grants Coordinator, ip-ord@uiowa.edu, before applying]