Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
We would appreciate it if you could inform us of any fellowships / grants opportunities, which you hear about, or that could be of interest to our group. Lastly, when you cross upon useful websites with information on fellowships / grants opportunities, please contact the editor responsible for this section: William M. Downs.
Fraenkel
Prize in Contemporary History
Wiener Library Limited
Deadline: May 15, 2009
http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/fraenkelprize.aspx
The Fraenkel Prize will be awarded for an outstanding work of twentieth-century history in one of the Wiener Library's fields of interest, i.e., the political history of Central and Eastern Europe; Jewish history; the two world wars; anti-Semitism; and the ideologies and movements of political extremism and totalitarianism. The work must be written in English, French or German and be unpublished at the deadline for submissions.
George Watt Prize
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA)
Deadline: June 1, 2009
http://www.alba-valb.org/participate/essay-contest
Graduate and undergraduate students from the United States and elsewhere are invited to submit an essay or thesis chapter about any aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the global political or cultural struggles against fascism in 1920s and 1930s, or the lifetime histories and contributions of the Americans who fought in support of the Spanish Republic from 1936 to 1938. Work will be judged on the basis of originality, quality of research, and effectiveness of argument or presentation.
Program for Initiatives Against Racism
Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF)
Deadline: February 1, 2009
http://www.crr.ca/content/category/5/27/385/lang,english/
The
Canadian Race Relations Foundation advances its mission, goals, and
objectives through its Sponsorship Program for Initiatives Against
Racism.
The program's objectives are
- to increase
critical understanding of racism and racial discrimination in
Canada;
- to expose the causes and manifestations of racism;
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to inform the general public of the facts, contrary to popular
misconceptions, about groups affected by racism and racial
discrimination; and
- to highlight the contributions of groups
affected by racism and racial discrimination, notably Aboriginal
peoples and racial minorities.
Proposed projects must meet at
least two objectives of this program, and must be complementary to
the work of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. Eligible
activities that may be considered for funding support by the
foundation include co-sponsorship of anti-racism conferences, panels,
symposia, and commemorative events with the potential to achieve
broad public awareness; co-sponsorship of anti-racism materials and
campaigns (print, video, audio, electronic) with the potential to
achieve broad public awareness; and seed money for the development of
large scale anti-racism activities with the potential to achieve
broad public awareness. The proposed project may have a national,
provincial, or regional impact. The foundation recognizes that
organizations located in rural regions may have less access to
resources for conducting anti-racism work and may require more funds
to facilitate their research, outreach and communication plans. This
category of the Initiatives Against Racism Sponsorship Program was
created to assist organizations located in more isolated areas in
addressing these challenges.
Yetta and Jacob Gelman Fellowship on the Holocaust in Romania
United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
Center for Advanced
Holocaust Studies
Visiting Scholars Program
Deadline: November 26, 2009
http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/application/
The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies was established to promote the growth of Holocaust studies, including the dissemination of scholarly output in the field, and to ensure the ongoing training of future generations of scholars specializing in the Holocaust. Through its fellowship program, the center fosters research in Holocaust and genocide studies, broadly defined. The fellowship program is designed for scholars at all stages of their academic careers. Fields of inquiry include, but are not limited to, historiography and documentation of the Holocaust, ethics and the Holocaust, comparative genocide studies, and the impact of the Holocaust on contemporary society and culture. Other research areas include refuge and rescue, and propaganda and mass media as they relate to genocide. The center welcomes a variety of approaches by scholars in history, political science, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, psychology, and other disciplines. This fellowship is specifically designed to support research on the Holocaust in Romania.
Fulbright-Yad Vashem Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship in Holocaust Studies
United States - Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF)
Deadline: February 16, 2009
http://www.fulbright.org.il/index.php?id=719
The United States - Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF) and Yad Vashem offer a grant to a doctoral candidate, enrolled at an Israeli university, who wishes to carry out a six-month visit to a U.S. research institution, in order to advance his/her doctoral dissertation research in the field of Holocaust studies. Host institutions may be universities, public research institutes, or private, nonprofit research institutes, that are authorized to issue SEVIS DS2019 forms to enable candidates to obtain J-1 exchange visitor visas. This program is open to doctoral candidates in all the academic disciplines, whose thesis topics deal with the study of the Holocaust.
Research for Understanding and Reducing Violence, Aggression and Dominance
Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Deadline: August 1, 2009
http://www.hfg.org/rg/guidelines.htm
The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.
Human Rights and Democracy Building
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA)
http://www.osisa.org/programmes/hrdb
The Open
Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) will seek to support
interventions that
- ensure that there is, in each of the
countries of the region, an effective mechanism and organization for
monitoring human rights law and practice, publicizing violations and
actioning protest work against human rights violations;
- promote
a focus on the rights of women, and of children; and
- contribute
to effective human rights promotion and defense, including ensuring
that citizens actively participate in civic formations and group
interest coalitions that enable them to promote and protect their
rights, and to prevent violation thereof.
NSF Political Science Program
Deadline: January 15, 2009
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5418
The Political Science Program supports scientific research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Research proposals are expected to be theoretically motivated, conceptually precise, methodologically rigorous, and empirically oriented. Substantive areas include, but are not limited to, American government and politics, comparative government and politics, international relations, political behavior, political economy, and political institutions. In recent years, program awards have supported research projects on bargaining processes; campaigns and elections, electoral choice, and electoral systems; citizen support in emerging and established democracies; democratization, political change, and regime transitions; domestic and international conflict; international political economy; party activism; and political psychology and political tolerance. The program also has supported research experiences for undergraduate students and infrastructural activities, including methodological innovations, in the discipline.
Charles and Kathleen Manatt Democracy Studies Fellowship Program
International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES)
Deadline: March 31, 2009
http://www.ifes.org/fellowships-manatt.html
The Charles and Kathleen Manatt Democracy Studies Fellowship Program at International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) invites outstanding students to conduct research in democracy development, election administration and civic participation in the political process. Established by the former chair of the board of IFES and his wife, this fellowship brings students to Washington, District of Columbia to conduct research while based at the F. Clifton White Applied Research Center for Democracy and Elections.
Immigration and Integration Grants
German Marshall Fund of the United States
http://www.gmfus.org/grants/immigration.cfm
The Key Institutions are the cornerstone of the German Marshall Fund's Immigration and Integration Program. They provide important input for the political migration and integration debates in the United States and Europe and bring together leading experts on international migration and integration.