Dissertation Fellowships 2020-2021

This page is for dissertation fellowships for 2020-2021 (including research fellowships, dissertation completion fellowships, and other predoctoral opportunities).


 * Last year's page: Dissertation Fellowships 2019-2020

See also fellowship discussions at theGradCafe: The Bank


 * This is an initial post to start the page as in years past - please add calls and information!

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AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship
Applied: Architecture x2

Applied: Classics x1

ACLS / Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Applied (Art History / Architectural History 5x)

Applied (Anthropology/Archaeology 3x)

Applied (English 1x)

American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize
Applied: Ancient Studies (x1)

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Research Fellowships, Harvard University
See also: Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy

Carter G. Woodson Pre-Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Fellowship (University of Virginia)
Applied: Architecture x1 (Predoctoral Fellowship)

Carter Manny Award
Research (2 applied)

CASVA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship of the National Gallery of Art
has anyone received information on interviews?

(1/20) Not yet...anticipation is killing me. I've heard they usually make calls on the 20th, but it's a holiday and calls from previous years have ranged from last week to later this week so...hopefully it's later this week ;)

(1/18) Call recieved notifying of an interview

(1/23) Congrats! Anyone know if they call all potential recipients at once or do it in stages?

(1/23) They call all potential recipients at once. Good luck to all those who have interviews!

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Applied: History

Applied: English

Applied: architecture

CLIR-Mellon Fellowship
Anyone know if they will be accepting applications this year? The website says that they'll decide in late fall, so I'm wondering if anyone has any inside information or insights here. Thanks!

Looks like they won't have a competition at all this cycle. No clear info about future cycles unfortunately. Really sad to see, I hope they secure funding for it in the future 1/14

Consortium for Faculty Diversity (Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship Fellowships)
Applied: English

Applied: Architecture x1

Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship
Question: does anyone know when exactly notifications will be going out for DO? The website says awards will be announced in March, but last year it seems like several rejections/waitlists were sent out Jan. 31.

-In 2018, I received my rejection letter on February 27.

Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy
Applied

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Applied -- English x3

Applied -- Interdisciplinary Study (Social Sciences & Humanities)

Applied -- Ethnomusicology

Applied -- History

Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies Pre-doctoral Fellowship
Based on website, looks like the Institute now only offers Postdoctoral Fellowship and Faculty Fellowship.

Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowship
Indicated Interest, Didn't Apply: I wrote to the fellowship contact on 9/15 to express my interest and to ask about departments that would be open to hosting a fellow for the 2020-2021 year (I'm in Architecture and subfield is African and African-American Studies, so I was interested in Africana Studies). I received the response that "we are currently hosting a Bolin fellow in Africana Studies, which is why that department is not participating this year." -- something to note for future applicants!!

Applied: History -- rejected 1/14

Applied: WGS -- rejected 1/14 ("I regret to inform you that you were not selected as one of the semi-finalists. We received an almost record number of applications this year -- nearly 150 for just two new positions.")

Getty Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowship
Applied: Getty Predoctoral Fellowship (x3)

Horowitz Fellowship
Applied (x1) on December 1

Huntington Library Fellowship
Applied: Short-term research fellowship

Jefferson Scholars Foundation National Fellowship (UVA)
Applied - History x1

Josephine de Karman Fellowship
Applied (x2)

Applied -- English

Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship (Kenyon College)
Applied: English (rejected 2/1)

Applied: History

Minerva-USIP Peace and Security Scholarship
See also: Jennings Randolph Peace Dissertation Fellowship

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art History Fellowships
Applied (Asian art x1)

Applied (Prints and Drawings x1)

Applied (Greek and Roman x1)

Notifications should go out Feb 28

^ How do you know this? Last year decisions were sent out on Feb 8.

MIT SHASS Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship
Does anyone know if this is happening this year? The website still shows 2019-20 information...

Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study
Applied (1x)

1.13.20 Rejection email received

Penn Predoctoral Fellowships for Excellence through Diversity
Applied: History x2

Applied: Architecture x1

Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) (Predoctoral)
Applied (x1 anthropology)

Does anyone know the timeline for this?

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Research Grants
Applied

Accepted 12/2

SSRC - IDRF
Have any applicants received an email informing them that they are ineligible? Or know if these emails have gone out yet? (1/2/20)

Applied, haven't heard anything (1/21/20) -- update, received request for transcripts 1/29

Received e-mail requesting transcripts (1/29)

Received request for transcripts (anthropology, 1/29 11:01am)

I've heard that transcript requests and first round rejections usually come in around the same time, and that if you don't hear anything in the few weeks after the requests go out that that is a good sign (your ranking is higher). Anyone have any insight into this?

--That's the same thing I've heard. If you have received a transcript request, be happy because you've made through the first round for sure. First-round rejections can either be out via email or snail mail around the same time transcripts requests go out (end of Jan/early Feb.) If you don't hear anything till late March/early April, that means you are in the top tier, but there's still a final rejection round that goes out with award letters in early April. Good luck to everyone! Has anyone received rejection emails from SSRC?

^^ Do you have any sense of the numbers here? Like, how many people receive transcript requests vs. how many people are in the "top tier," vs. how many are actually awarded grants?

I'm not sure about the numbers by tiers. From previous years' pages, it seems like on average the total application number is in the 900s and there are 70 awards in total, according to the SSRC website.

University of California @ Davis Provost's Dissertation Year Fellowship
Applied - History

Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
November 1, 2019 Deadline

Applied: (1X Cultural, 1X Archaeology)

Applied (cultural)

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies
applied

applied

applied

1/17: rejection email. they received over 200 applications.

1/17: e-mailed notification of finalist status 2x

Yale ISS Smith Richardson Predoctoral Fellowship
The website for the ISS fellowships (including the Kissinger) still has last year's info, as does the application link. Anyone know if another link is available? 1/16