SBS Endowed Scholarships

• Scholarship descriptions and application instructions

Funding Information and Forms

• Shandel Roberts - Asst. Director and Student Funding Manager, SON Office of Student Affairs
• Office of Student Financial Aid
• UCSF Graduate Division Fellowship information page
• SBS Fellowship Past Awardees
• Applicant GDHS Application.pdf

Conference / Travel Funding

• Sociology Conference Travel Fellowship
• Graduate Division Travel Award
• SoN Associated Students Enrichment Fund / Travel Award

Grant Searches

• UCLA Grapes, Grant Search Engine (highly recommended)
• UCSD Grant Search Engine
• UCSD's Graduate Funding Blog
• Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
• Grant Select
• Grants.gov
• Cornell University Graduate Student Notebook

Grant Information

• American Association of University Women (AAUW); AAUW offers several pre- and post-doctoral grants
• American Education Research Association (The AERA Grants Program offers dissertation grants for quantitative education policy and practice research using large-scale, nationally- representative data sets such as those sponsored by NCES and NSF. Studies must include US education but may be comparative.)
• ASA Grants and Fellowships listings
• Minority Fellowship Program, supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and sponsored by the American Sociological Association
• Community Action Research Initiative, sponsored by the ASA Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy.
• ASA Congressional Fellowship, sponsored by the ASA Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy.
• Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, co-sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) through a matching grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
• ASA Teaching Enhancement Fund ASA Small Grants Program
• Bancroft Library Study Awards for students working on Master's thesis and Doctoral Dissertation that will use the library's materials.
• Brookings Institute
• Dirksen Congressional Center - The research awards competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible.
• Dorot Foundation Graduate research travel grant supports research in Israel
• Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship
• Fulbright Fellowship awarded for dissertation research
• Horowitz Foundation- Horowitz supports sociological research with an emphasis on policy-oriented studies.
• MacArthur Foundation - Global Migration and Human Mobility MacArthur will be providing a limited number of open grants in the following areas: Governance of global migration ; Migration and development; Re-conceptualizing global human mobility
• McNeil Center- McNeil supports research related to early American studies
• Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships Supports dissertation research in the humanities and social sciences
• National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship- These fellowships are designed to promote scholarship in the United States and abroad on matters relevant to the improvement of education in all its forms. NAE/Spencer will support one year of full-time research, or two years at half-time.
• National Institute of Health
• National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant Info
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program - The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
• Newcombe, Charlotte W., Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Supports research of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences
• Phi Beta Kappa -
• Robert Bosch Foundation Work placement in European governments
• Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society's Grants-in-Aid program
• Social Science Research Council offers a variety of awards for research and workshops. Workshop topics change each year.
• Spencer Foundation Spencer funds education-related research.
• Switzer Foundation Switzer funds research related to the environment
• United States Department of Education
• The Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
• UC Berkeley-Stanford University John Gardner Fellow for Public Service
• UC Center for New Racial Studies Grants
• UCSD Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and Center for US Mexican Studies
• UCSD The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity (CSRE) Summer Dissertation Research Fellowships In Chicana/Latino Studies and Ethnic Studies
• UC Pacific Rim Research Program
• UC Labor and Employment Research Fund
• UC Humanities Research Institute
• UC Institute for European Studies - The Institute keeps a running list of pre- and post-doctoral opportunities for scholars studying Europe.
• UC Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship for language study
• UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowships and Travel and Research Awards
• US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - HUD's Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant program is intended to stimulate policy-relevant urban research by encouraging doctoral candidates to pursue research topics in community, housing, and urban development.
• Woodrow Wilson, National Fellowship Foundation - Supports research related to teaching, conservation, women and gender, religion and ethics, access and opportunities, and foreign affairs.

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