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Grants for Graduate Students Funding Opportunities in the Liberal Arts This list of grant opportunities is designed to help graduate students in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin identify support for the various phases of their graduate careers. It includes 214 grants; 187 support graduate study in the social sciences, and 109 fund work in the humanities. Fifty-one opportunities are open to international students and another 132 state no specific citizenship requirements. The grants cover multiple phases of study including coursework, pre-dissertation research and travel, professional training opportunities, dissertation research, and dissertation writing. While this list is not intended to be comprehensive, it does represent three years of careful searching for opportunities for Liberal Arts graduate students. We hope you find it useful as one resource in your grant search. —Liberal Arts Grants Services, August 2014 How to Use this List Please skim: Only a fraction of the such as departmental review, approval by the requirements. International students opportunities here will be relevant to any Graduate School, or competitive university- interested in these opportunities should individual student's specific area of study. wide review. Please read the "how to apply" clarify by reading the solicitation carefully The format is designed to be easy to skim so section carefully for the grants that interest and contacting the sponsor if need be. that you can identify these more quickly. you and be sure to contact the individuals listed there for additional information, if Discipline: Grants have been marked as Deadlines: A majority of the opportunities necessary. Humanities, Social Sciences or both for your here recur on an annual basis, but in some convenience. Individual sponsors may have cases the sponsor had not posted a new International Students: A handful of grants, nuanced interpretations of this division, so be deadline at the time the list was compiled. especially those funded by the U.S. sure to read the solicitation carefully to make Please use previous year's deadlines as a government, restrict applications to U.S. sure that the sponsor accepts proposals from guideline and check back with sponsors that citizens and permanent residents. your discipline. interest you for updates. In this list, "Y" indicates that the sponsor Some sponsors are more interested in your Some grants may be submitted directly to the accepts applications from international methodology than your home department— sponsor, others require the university to students. In some cases, the sponsor may if you use methodological tools from other officially approve and submit your grant. In all designate specific nationalities that may disciplines (i.e. humanists who use cases, the deadline listed is the date of apply, or they may require that the ethnography or linguistic methods, and social required first contact. If the grant will be international student should be enrolled in a scientists who draw on archival research) be submitted through Liberal Arts Grants U.S. university at the time of application. sure to consider opportunities in your Services, the listed deadline is three weeks in broader, interdisciplinary base. advance of the sponsor's deadline. "N" indicates that the sponsor will accept applications from U.S. citizens or permanent How to apply: Most grants are either residents only. submitted directly to the sponsor or through Liberal Arts Grants Services. There are others, "Unknown" means that the solicitation was however, that require special procedures not clear on nationality or citizenship FALL of federal statistical agencies to support More Info: research proposals that further the http://world.utexas.edu/abroad/funding/sch Title: Louis Owens Awards for Graduate development of new and innovative olarships/fulbright Student Presenters at WLA Conferences approaches to surveys and to the analysis of ______________________________ Sponsor: Western Literature Association survey data. (WLA) Title: Dissertation Grants Deadline: 09/01/2014 How to Apply: Contact your departmental Sponsor: American Educational Research Amount: $500 Grants and Contracts Specialist or Liberal Arts Association (AERA) Grants Services ([email protected]) Deadline: 09/04/2014 Description: The WLA honors the great writer and return Proposal Review Form by Amount: $20,000 and scholar Louis Owens for his contributions September 1. to western American and American Indian Description: AERA invites education-related literary studies and for his unfailing Disciplines: Social Sciences; International dissertation proposals using National Center generosity as a colleague, teacher, and Students: Unknown for Educational Statistics (NCES), National mentor. The goal of the Louis Owens Awards Science Foundation (NSF), and other federal is to build for the future of the Western More Info: databases. dissertation Grants are available Literature Association by modeling Owens’ http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp? for advanced doctoral students and are own support and encouragement of diverse pims_id=5421 intended to support the student while writing graduate student engagement in western ______________________________ the doctoral dissertation. Applications are literature and culture studies. The Owens encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such Awards are intended to foster ever-greater Title: Fulbright U.S. Student Program as but not limited to, education, sociology, diversity within the WLA membership, to help Sponsor: U.S. Department of State (dOS) economics, psychology, demography, broaden the field of western American Deadline: 09/03/2014 statistics, and psychometrics. literary studies, and to recognize both Amount: Varies graduate student scholarship and financial How to Apply: Apply directly to sponsor by need. To be eligible for this award, you must Description: The 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. September 4. See grant announcement for be registered as a graduate student at the Student competition will open on May 1, complete list of materials to be submitted time of the conference. You are not eligible 2014. The Fulbright U.S. Student program is with application. for this award if you have received it open to graduate students at all levels, previously. undergraduates who will have completed Disciplines: Social Sciences; International their degree by the beginning of the grant Students: Unknown How to Apply: Submit a paper proposal for period (for most countries, Sept. 1, 2014) and participation in the conference by June 15. If non-students who hold a bachelor's degree. More Info: your paper is accepted, apply directly to The program is restricted to U.S. citizens. The http://www.aera.net/ProfessionalOpportunit sponsor by September 1. See grant grants are for study and research abroad, and iesFunding/FundingOpportunities/AERAGrant announcement for complete list of materials are available for most countries. Grants are sProgram/DissertationGrants/tabid/12812/d to be submitted with application. awarded for all disciplines, including the efault.aspx sciences, social sciences, humanities, ______________________________ Disciplines: Humanities; International engineering, and the performing and creative Students: Y arts. A number of countries also offer grants Title: Kauffman dissertation Fellowship for those who wish to serve as English Program in Entrepreneurship More Info: http://www.westernlit.org/the- teaching assistants. NOTE: U.S. Student Sponsor: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation louis-owens-awards-for-graduate-student- Fulbright Grants should not be confused with Deadline: 09/10/2014 presenters-at-wla-conferences/ the discontinued Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Amount: $15,000 ______________________________ Dissertation Grant. Description: The Kauffman dissertation Title: Methodology, Measurement, and How to Apply: Contact the UT Austin Fellowship Program is an annual competitive Statistics (MMS), doctoral dissertation Fulbright advisor at program that awards up to fifteen Research Improvement Grant (ddRIG) (NSF [email protected] as soon as Dissertation Fellowship grants of $15,000 14-574) possible to indicate your intent to apply. The each to Ph.d., A.d.B., or other doctoral Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF) email should give the applicant's name, students at accredited U.S. universities to Deadline: 09/01/2014 contact information, and academic status support dissertations in the area of Amount: Unspecified (i.e., undergrad, grad, alumnus), country or entrepreneurship. The Kauffman dissertation region of interest, and area of study or Fellowship Program is one of three academic Description: The MMS Program supports research topic. The applicant must submit recognition programs established by the supports the development of innovative copies of all application materials Kauffman Foundation to aid the Foundation analytical and statistical methods and models electronically to the UT Austin Fulbright office in achieving its goal of building a body of for those sciences. The Program interacts by 2 PM on September 3. respected entrepreneurship research and with the other programs in Social, Behavioral, making entrepreneurship a highly regarded and Economic Sciences (SBE) as well as other Disciplines: Humanities, Social Sciences; academic field. programs in the Foundation, most notably International Students: N the Statistics Program in the directorate for How to Apply: Apply directly to sponsor by Mathematical and Physical