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The Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)/ German Academic Exchange Service is a private, publicly funded, self governing organization of higher education institutions in Germany. DAAD promotes international academic relations and cooperation by offering mobility programs primarily for students and faculty, but also for administrators and others in the higher education realm.

DAAD awards Study Scholarships for Fine Arts, Architecture, Film, Music and Dance to qualified students in these fields to provide the opportunity to complete a program of additional studies, with or without earning a formal degree, from a German institute of higher education. These scholarships are granted for one academic year (10 months) with the possibility of a one-year extension for students in degree-granting programs to complete a full degree course in Germany.

Award: Monthly stipend of €750. In addition, DAAD will pay for health insurance and offer a flat rate subsidy for travel costs.

Eligibility: Open to US or Canadian citizens. Foreign nationals must have studied at an accredited US or Canadian university for at least two years by time of application. Graduating seniors or graduate students applying must be enrolled full-time in an accredited university. PhD candidates must have achieved ABD status no longer than four years before applying. Postdocs may apply until two years after completion of their PhD.

Applicants should have a well-defined study project that makes a stay in Germany essential and should have a good command of German. Applicants must not have been a resident in Germany for more than one year at the time of application and may not hold a DAAD grant and a grant from another German/German-American organization/German-Canadian organization concurrently for the same project.

Deadline: November 1, 2013 (postmarked)

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ACLS invites applications for the eighth annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. The program encourages timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure.  A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program.

The Fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence at the Fellow’s home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. These Fellowships may not be held concurrently with any other fellowship or grant.

Award:  $25,000, plus funds for research costs of up to $3,000 and for university fees of up to $5,000. In addition to the monetary support that the fellowship offers, Dissertation Completion Fellows are able to apply to participate in a seminar on preparing for the academic job market.  The seminar takes place over three days in the fall of the fellowship year.

Eligibility:

• Open to Ph.D. candidates in a humanities or social science department in the United States. (1)
• Applicants must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation (obtained ABD status) by the application deadline.
• The program is restricted to graduate students who have progressed no further than the sixth year of the degree program.  (This includes time for a master’s degree obtained en route to the Ph.D.) (2)
• Graduate students who currently hold or have previously held a dissertation completion fellowship are not eligible for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
• Unsuccessful applicants may reapply to this program only once.

Deadline: October 23, 2013

See ACLS website for updates on 2013-2014 competition.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowships support women scholars who are completing dissertations, planning research leave from accredited institutions, or preparing research for publication. Candidates are evaluated on the basis of scholarly excellence; quality and originality of project design; and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions, or fields of research. Dissertation fellowships are open to women who have completed all course work, passed all preliminary examinations, and received approval for their research proposals or plans by the preceding November.

Award: $20,000

Eligibility: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Open to applicants in all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering, and math fields or researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply.  Students holding fellowships for writing a dissertation in the year prior to the AAUW fellowships year are not eligible.

Deadline: mid November.  See website for updated information.

Each year the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) awards up to three grants of $800 each in honor of the late Thomas F. Marshall, a distinguished theatre scholar and founder of ASTR, who took particular interest in the encouragement and support of promising students in the field of theatre research. The purpose of the Thomas Marshall Graduate Student Awards is to encourage students to become active members of the Society by helping them to meet the expenses of attending the ASTR annual meeting in November. ASTR conference registration fees will be waived for grant winners.

Eligibility: any student majoring in theatre/performance studies in any academic department at any level of higher education is eligible. Students need not be members of ASTR at the time of application.

Deadline: July 1, 2013. Applicants are responsible for seeing that sponsoring and supporting letters are received by the deadline.

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The Endeavour Awards is the Australian Government’s internationally competitive, merit-based scholarship program providing opportunities for citizens of the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia. Awards are also available for Australians to undertake study, research and professional development abroad.

Endeavour Research Fellowships provide up to AUS$23,500 for postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers to undertake 4-6 months of research in Australia.

The Award enables researchers to undertake comparative or collaborative research in Australia as part of their current postgraduate or postdoctoral research program. It also assists recipients build international professional links and institutional collaborations.

Endeavour Executive Fellowships provide up to AUD$18,500 for mid-career faculty and administrators to undertake 1-4 months of professional development in Australia.

The Award enables recipients to build skills and knowledge in a host work environment through activities such as: management training, peer-to-peer learning, mentoring, and short courses. Applicants must be nominated by a host organisation and the professional development activity must be vocationally useful and not geared toward completion of a degree, or an immediate commercial outcome.

Eligibility: Open to all disciplines.

Deadline:  June 30, 2013

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The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Program provides grants to doctoral students who conduct research in other countries, in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of six to 12 months. The program funds projects that deepen research knowledge on and help the nation develop capability in areas of the world not generally included in U.S. curricula.  The DDRA Program supports research projects that focus on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories). Projects focusing on Western Europe are not supported.

In contrast to the Fulbright IIE U.S. Student Program, which is limited to a stay in a single country, the DDRA program is designed for stays in one or more countries.  A Western European country may be included as one of the stays, if archival work or other research needs related to the non-Western project warrant such a stay.

Award: The grant provides travel expenses, maintenance allowance for the grantee and his/her dependents, books and other research-related expenses and health insurance. Please note that students may not accept certain grants (IIE, Boren, IREX, Japan Foundation) in the same fiscal year that a Fulbright-Hays grant is awarded.

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The Smith Richardson Foundation is pleased to announce the World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship program, its annual grant competition to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history.

The fellowship’s objective is to support the research and writing of policy-relevant dissertations through funding of fieldwork, archival research, and language training.  In evaluating applications, the Foundation will accord preference to those projects that could directly inform U.S. policy debates and thinking, rather than dissertations that are principally focused on abstract theory or debates within a scholarly discipline.

Award: $7,500

Eligibility: Must be enrolled full-time in a Ph.D. program in a college or university in the United States.  Applicants must have completed coursework and comprehensive examination requirements of the Ph.D. program.

Deadline: October 15, 2013

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The Smithsonian Institution’s James E. Webb Internship for Minority Graduate Students in Business and Public Administration was established in honor of the late James. E. Webb, Regent Emeritus and former Administrator of the National Air and Space Administration (NASA), to promote excellence in the management of not-for-profit organizations. Internships are offered to U.S. minority undergraduate junior, seniors and graduate students majoring in areas of business or public administration. These opportunities are intended to increase participation of minority groups who are underrepresented in the management of not-for-profit scientific and cultural organizations. Interns are placed in offices, museums, and research institutes throughout the Smithsonian Institution. Internships last 10 weeks.

Award: Stipend of $550 per week, with possible travel allowance

Eligibility: Open to U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents and minority junior and senior undergraduate and graduate students in Business and Public Administration

Deadline: 

• October 1 for Spring (to begin after January 1)
• February 1 for Summer (to begin after June 1) and for Fall (to begin after October 1)

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The Matsumae International Foundation provides postdoctoral fellowships for research in Japan.Non-Japanese applicants are free to select host institutions (university research laboratories, national research institutions or the corresponding facilities of private industry) in which to carry out their research. Fields of study such as natural science, engineering and medicine are given first priority. Fellowships are awarded for a period of 3 to 6 months.

Award: 

• ¥200,000 yen is provided monthly for the purpose of payment of tuition, expenses for research materials, lodging, meals, transportation, etc.
• Overseas Travel Accident/Sickness Insurance: (1) Personal accident insurance with death benefit and medical treatment, and (2) Sickness insurance with death benefit and medical treatment.
• An economy-class round-trip air ticket between the international airport nearest to successful applicant’s home residence and Tokyo via most direct routing is provided.
•  ¥100,000 yen lump sum on arrival to assist with local travel expenses, the initial cost of lodging, etc.

Eligibility: Open to scholars of non-Japanese nationality who hold a Ph.D. or are recognized by the Matsumae International Foundation as possessing equivalent academic qualifications. Applicants must be under 49 years old at the time of application, have sufficient conversational ability in English or Japanese, and should not have been in Japan in the past and/or in the present.

Deadline: August 31, 2013

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The Hosei International Fund (HIF) Foreign Scholars Fellowship Program offers young scholars from outside Japan the opportunity to carry out non-degree research at Hosei University under the direction of and/or in cooperation with Hosei University faculty and researchers. Fellowships are for 6 to 12 months in duration. Hosei University has 3 campuses at Ichigaya, Tama and Koganei, all of which are located within Tokyo.

Award: Monthly stipend of 300,000 yen plus round trip travel subsidy and shared office space.

Eligibility: No citizenship requirements. Open to all disciplines.  Must be presently enrolled in a doctoral degree program, hold a doctorate, or its equivalent. Also, must be fluent in either English or Japanese and be no more than 39 years of age as April 1st.

Deadline: June 1, 2013

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