graduate student funding options
In the world of sciences, there are lots of funding programs that exist beyond a graduate student's home institution. The US's NSF, for example, has all sorts of programs that incoming students can apply for and have their entire graduate school paid for without placing any burden on their home institution. (In lots of programs, this makes taking someone with an NSF grant an extra special appeal.) I'm trying to get a sense of what programs exist out there in the social scientists / internet studies / digital humanities space. I'm mainly looking for programs that help fund people to attend US institutions (whether they are US citizens or not). I recognize that the norm is for the department itself to fund through faculty grants, TA-ships, and university dissertation fellowships, but I'm wondering if there are non-institution specific programs out there in the amorphous field we call internet studies. (Feel free to send info to me offline; I will happily compile and share back with you.) danah
Last week, I wrote to see if anyone knew of graduate student funding options for internet studies for US institutions that were not institution-specific. I wanted to share back. I don't know which of these fund non-US citizens. If you know of other similar programs, please let me know. There are very few fellowships that cover more than a year of graduate school and they are all very competitive. - Jacob K. Javits ($30K, up to 4 years) - Ford Foundation Diversity (ethnic minority applicants, $20K, 3 years) - NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (3 years, $30K. This is primarily for sci/tech, but they do fund some social scientists) : http://nsfgrfp.org/ - Soros Foundation (must have been naturalized in last 3 years, $20K, 3 years) http://www.pdsoros.org/forms/ Some one-time/dissertation fellowships that apply to SS/H people: - Wenner-Gren (max is I think $13K) - NSF science & technology studies (max $10K?) - NSF cultural anthropology - Charles Babbage Institute, Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Technology ($14K) - National Women's Studies Association ($1000) - AAUW Educational Foundation, gives fellowships to women both US citizens and international students (20K grad students; 30K postdoc) - Josephine De Kármán Fellowship Trust ($22,000) - Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason ($12K, libertarian) - ACLS Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship ($25K) - Woodrow Wilson Charlotte Newcomb (Religious or ethical questions (interpreted broadly), $25K) - Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources ($25K) - SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship ($19K for diss research outside the US) - Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellows ($25K) Other related grant options: - Fulbright: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/overview_program.html (Note: I'm not looking for postdoc funding or post-PhD fellowships... Or for institution-specific RA/TAships. I'm specifically looking for programs that fund graduate students who are getting their degrees. And, yes, I know that most US schools fund internally. And that all of the Australians and Europeans find American funding mechanisms peculiar.) ------ "taken out of context, i must seem so strange" -- ani http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ http://www.danah.org/ @zephoria
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danah boyd