Ford Minority Dissertation

Provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies.

The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States.

Note that application deadlines for nationally competitive fellowships tend to fall eight months to a year in advance of the funded period, so plan accordingly.

** Fellowships and grants for outstanding female graduate students and non-profit organizations.

Projects focusing on Western Europe are not supported. Zebulon Kendrick, Vice Provost of the Graduate School.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships** For students in their final year of their Ph D work.

Fellowship and grant recipients perform research in a wide range of disciplines and work to improve their schools and communities.

Ford Fellowships The Ford Foundation seeks to increase diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students Predoctoral, Dissertation, and Postdoctoral fellowships are awarded.

This is a list that compiles fellowships and other funded opportunities at the post-undergraduate level for research, study, professional development, and service abroad.

In most cases, these are not restricted to specific disciplines. Students typically apply as rising seniors, recent graduates, or during the first two years of graduate program.