Information about Fellowships
FELLOWSHIPS
Search these programs/organizations for leads on applying for fellowships and/or internal UM scholarships. But don't stop with these organizations! Use these as a starting point for your search. Best of luck!
UM Tuition Scholarships
UM Fellowships
AAUW American Fellowships
African American and Hispanic McKnight Fellowships
American Anthropological Association AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship
American Philosophical Society Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
Cobb Fellowships Iceland Fulbright Commission
The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
Maytag Fellowship
McKnight Fellowships
Morris K. Udall Foundation - Dissertation Fellowship
Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program
National Science Foundation Fellowships
Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation
UM Tuition Scholarships - All fields eligible; Award: Varies in amount and length of time; Deadline: June 1st (some departments/programs may have earlier deadlines)
To learn more/apply - Student applies directly to individual Graduate Program Director
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UM Fellowships - All new UM doctoral students in all UM doctoral programs are eligible. This award is given as a top-off stipend to a departmental teaching or research assistantship. The award is for five years. Students must apply directly to their individual Graduate Program Director. The deadline is early January for most programs though some departments may have earlier deadlines. Graduate Program Directors submit their nominations to the Graduate School. Graduate School committees make the final selections across departments. New University of Miami Fellows will have an opportunity to live at University Village for the first year of their program.
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AAUW American Fellowships: Support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations, and scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave or for preparing completed research for publication. Applicants must be U.S citizens or permanent residents. One-year postdoctoral research leave fellowships, dissertation fellowships, and summer/short-term research publication grants are offered.
To learn more/apply - www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm
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African American and Hispanic McKnight Fellowships (sponsored by the Florida Education Fund) - The University of Miami agreement with the Florida Education Fund will cover 5 years full tuition plus $12,000 stipend for qualifying African American and Hispanic Ph.D. students in any discipline.
To learn more/apply - www.fefonline.org/mdf.html
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American Anthropological Association AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship - Applicants must be members of a historically underrepresented ethnic minority group, including, but not limited to, African Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians or Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latino/as, Chicano/as, and Pacific Islanders;- have a record of outstanding academic achievement; be enrolled in a full-time academic program leading to a doctoral degree in anthropology at the time of application; be admitted to degree candidacy before the dissertation fellowship is awarded; be members of the AAA at least one month prior to submitting materials for the AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program; and have had their dissertation proposals approved by their dissertation committees prior to application.
The recipient of the fellowship must be in need of a fellowship to complete the dissertation. ABSTRACT: The American Anthropological Association offers the AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship to minority doctoral candidates in anthropology who require financial assistance to complete the write-up phase of the dissertation. The dissertation research must be in an area of anthropological research.Dissertation topics in all areas of the discipline are welcome.
To learn more/apply - www.aaanet.org/committees/minority/minordis.htm
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American Anthropological Association AAA Minority Dissertation Fellowship - Grants will be available to doctoral students; master's degree candidates are not eligible. Applicants who have received Lewis and Clark Fund grants may reapply after an interval of two years. The competition is open to U.S. residents wishing to carry out research anywhere in the world. Foreign applicants must either be based at a U.S. institution or plan to carry out their work in the United States.
Student applicants should ask their academic advisor to write one of the two letters of recommendation, specifying the student's qualifications to carry out the proposed work and the educational content of the trip. ABSTRACT: The American Philosophical Society's Lewis and Clark Fund encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation. Applications are invited from disciplines with a large dependence on field studies, such as archeology, anthropology, biology, ecology, geography, geology, linguistics, and paleontology, but grants will not be restricted to these fields. Each grantee will submit a brief report on his or her trip for archiving in the APS Library.
To learn more/apply - www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewisandclark.htm
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American Association of University Women - All women eligible; includes American Fellowships, Career Development Grants, Selected Professions Fellowships, University Scholar-in-Residence Community Action Grants, and International Fellowships.
To learn more/apply - www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/index.cfm
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Cobb Fellowships
Iceland Fulbright Commission - must be a graduate of University of Iceland; Award: ONE year fellowship - $8,000 stipend plus 18 credits; Deadline: November 15th
To learn more/apply -
www.fulbright.is
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The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek to increase the 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 can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. To facilitate this goal the Fellowship grants awards at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and, Postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.
The Fellowship makes the following annual awards
- Approximately 60 Predoctoral Awards at $20,000 per year for up to three years.
- Approximately 35 Dissertation Awards at $21,000 for one year
- Approximately 20 Postdoctoral Awards at $40,000 for one year
Eligibility Requirements
- All citizens or nationals of the United States regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation.
- Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement
- Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level
- Individuals enrolled in or planning to enroll in an eligible research-based program leading to a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree at a U.S. educational institution, and
- Individuals who have not earned a doctoral degree at any time, in any field.
Deadline Dates
- Predoctoral - November 14th
- Postdoctoral - November 28th
- Dissertation - November 28th
To learn more/apply -
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships
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Maytag Fellowship - Eligible fields: Marine Biology, Biology and limited areas in Chemistry and Psychology Award: $20,000 stipend for 10 or 12 months plus 18 credits Deadline: Early or mid January (some depts. have earlier deadlines)
To learn more/apply -
Student applies directly to Graduate Program Head
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McKnight Fellowship - Eligible fields: All doctoral programs at the University of Miami: $12,000 stipend plus full tuition (up to 3 years); deadline - January 15th
To learn more/apply - Student applies directly to the Florida Education Fund and the University of Miami (Both applications must be complete) - www.fefonline.org/mdf.html
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Morris K. Udall Foundation - Dissertation Fellowship -
The Udall Foundation awards two one-year fellowships of up to $24,000 to doctoral candidates whose research concerns U.S. environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution and who are entering their final year of writing the dissertation. Dissertation Fellowships are intended to cover both academic and living expenses from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
Eligibility Requirements
Dissertation fellowships are open to scholars in all fields of study whose dissertation topic has significant relevance to U.S. environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution. Applicants must be enrolled at a U.S. institution of higher education; U.S. citizens attending universities outside the U.S. are not eligible; The primary focus of dissertation research should be U.S. environmental policy or environmental conflict resolution; It is the Foundation's intent that work conducted during the fellowship year be done in the U.S. Ph.D. candidates who hold a fellowship for the purpose of writing the dissertation during the year preceding or coinciding with the Udall Fellowship are not eligible.
Deadline: February 20, 2009 -To learn more/apply - www.udall.gov/OurPrograms/ECRFellowship/ECRFellowship.aspx
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Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program - Eligible: graduate students and professionals from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan; eligible fields: business administration, economics, education, environmental management, international affairs, journalism and mass communication, law, library and information science, public administration, public health, and public policy.
To learn more/apply - www.irex.org/programs/muskie/index.asp
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National Science Foundation Fellowships - Eligible fields: Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering Award: $30,000 stipend plus 18 credits (generally 3-year award) Deadline: Early November
To learn more/apply -
Students must apply directly to NSF - www.nsfgradfellows.org
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Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
Every year, the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi awards sixty Fellowships of $5,000 each and forty Awards of Excellence of $2,000 each to members entering the first year of graduate or professional study. Each Phi Kappa Phi chapter may select one candidate from among its local applicants to compete for the Society-wide awards.
Eligibility Requirements
All Phi Kappa Phi member or prospective members and who have not earned more than a semester of graduate credits.
Deadline: February 1, 2009 To learn more/apply - Student applies directly apply at your local chapter www.phikappaphi.org/Web/Scholarships/graduatefellowship.html
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation - 2009 Thomas
R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowships; Eligible: Graduating senior
or recent graduates who are interested in becoming Foreign Service officers
in the U.S. Dept. of State. Need to begin master's degree program in fall
2009. Deadline is February 3, 2009.
To learn more/apply - www.woodrow.org;
Ph (609) 452-7007
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