Dissertation Fellowships 2017-2018

This page is for dissertation fellowships for 2017-2018 (including research fellowships, dissertation completion fellowships, and other predoctoral opportunities).


 * Last year's page: Dissertation Fellowships 2016-2017
 * See also previous years' pages: Dissertation Fellowships 2013-14, Dissertation Fellowships 2014-15 and Dissertation Fellowships 2015-2016.

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 x1

ACLS / Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Deadline: October 26, 2016

LINK: https://www.acls.org/programs/dcf/

Who's applying this year? Project statement: anyone know whether page numbers in the header need to be adjusted to give a full 1" margin at the top, or whether the page numbers can be in the margin space (as headers typically are)?
 * Applying (x7)

Let the waiting commence!
 * This wiki is so quiet this season. Glad there are at least a few of us here!
 * I felt ok about this application until I read that they got over 1,000 applications last year... Arghhh!!!!!
 * It's a total crapshoot, of course, but yay to all of us for even trying!

Consortium for Faculty Diversity (Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship Fellowships)
Applied x1
 * See also Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2016-17

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Applied x2

Help! Is anyone getting the validation error "A Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree must be entered in your educational history" even though you've already entered that information into the education form?
 * I'm having the exact same issue! Right now I've got listed my institution twice, once as saying I've earned the PhD in 2018, and again as the proposed institution for the fellowship.
 * Did exactly the same as the person above
 * Did it let you submit the application with that format? I put in an e-mail to the helpline, but it was right around 5pm ET today. It would be nice to be able to submit tonight rather than waiting for their response (if one even comes) tomorrow. --> Submitted this morning. The help people did e-mail early this morning saying that my education materials were validated, but this was only after I had already implemented your workaround. Thanks for helping!!

NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program

 * Deadline October 6, 2016 at 5 pm EST.
 * Applied, after a heart attack at the application page not loading within hours of the deadline.

University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Fellowships
 There are four month-long fellowships available during the 2017-2018 academic year.

 One of these fellowships is the  Genocide Prevention Research Fellowship for PhD Candidates (due November 23, 2016). This fellowship  will be awarded to an advanced-standing Ph.D. candidate from any discipline who will spend one month of residence at the Center in the Spring of 2017 to advance research on genocide prevention through the use of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources.

The other three fellowships (due December 15, 2016)  will be awarded to outstanding advanced-standing Ph.D. candidates from any discipline for dissertation research with innovative approaches focusing on testimony from the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive and other USC resources.

 The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive contains over 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, including the Rwandan, Armenian, Guatemalan genocides and the Nanjing Massacre in China. These interviews were conducted in 62 languages and in 41 countries and cover the entire life history of the interviewees before, during, and after the genocide.


 * Please visit http://sfi.usc.edu/cagr/fellowships to see the list of fellowships and read the full call for applications.
 * For more information about the center and the Visual History Archive, please visit: http://sfi.usc.edu/cagr



Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies
Applied x1