Graduate : Current Students : Funding

Funding Opportunities

Overview

A good first step in the pursuit of funding is to visit the UMass Graduate Student Grant Service website. There you can read through a FAQ and tips for finding and applying for grants -- including grants for international students, minorities, and women.

Once you identify a grant program for which you'd like to apply, contact Michelle Goncalves. Michelle can help you through the application process.

Department of Political Science

TO Application

TO Application Form Please print out and give to the Graduate Program Manager (Deadline is November 15)

Graduate Student Small Grant Program

This program is designed to support doctoral students currently in their second year or higher with conference travel and summer research and training support.

Conference Grants

Summer Research and Training Grants

Graduate Research Initiative Program

The objective of the Graduate Research Initiative Program (GRIP) is to provide modest amounts of competitively allocated research support to Ph.D. students pursuing research agendas that are closely related to the Intra-disciplinary Initiative, which emphasizes research across conventional subfields in political science. GRIP is intended to draw attention to the department’s approach to political science by sending out graduate students with well-polished conference presentation and journal article submissions on cutting-edge initiative topics.

All doctoral students are eligible to apply for the following Initiative activities for the 2012 and 2013 competitions:

GRIP Conference Grants

GRIP Summer Research and Writing Grants

Initiative Research Assistantships

UMass Amherst

Center for Research on Families Fellowship

External

Pre-dissertation, general

Andrew Mellon Pre-Dissertation Award

Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program (no more than 1 year of graduate study; preferably no completed credits)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (no more than 1 year of graduate study)

Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship

Dissertation, general

APSA Dissertation Awards

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship

Specialized areas of study

Environment Studies

Udall Graduate Fellowships

Ethics

Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research (research area: ethics and religion)

National Science Foundation Ethics Education in Science and Engineering Grant

Global Issues

Amnesty International Ralph Bunche Human Rights Fellowship Program

Association to Unite the Democracies Frank Educational Fund Grants

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellows Program

Chateaubriand Fellowship

Council of American Overseas Research Centers Fellowships (language learning)

Council on Foreign Relations Fellowships (several IR-related fellowships)

Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship (preferably Armenian studies)

Donald E. Stokes Dissertation Research Fellowship (UK studies)

East-West center Scholarships and Fellowships (Asia and Pacific studies)

Foreign Policy Association Grants and Fellowships

Harvard University Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

International Foundation for Electoral Systems Democracy Fellowship

IREX Fellowships and Grants for Eurasian Studies

Lint Center Scholarships (International security)

Miller Center of Public Affairs Fellowships in American Politics, Foreign Policy and World Politics

National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students

RAND Corporation Fellowships (international relations and policy)

Randolph Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowships (international security)

Rangel International Affairs Fellowship Program Graduate Fellowships (Master’s only)

Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program (European studies)

Social Science Research Council Eurasia Dissertation Support Fellowship

Social Science Research Council Abe Fellowship (Global Issues, US-Japan relations)

Social Science Research Council - Information Technology, International Security, and Global Cooperation Summer Fellowships

Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship (post-doc or pre-doc)

United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program

West African Research Association Fellowship

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Regional Scholars Programs (several regions)

Woodrow Wilson Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship

Governance and Institutions

American Philosophical Society Library Resident Research Fellowships

Brookings Institute - Research Fellowships in Economic, Foreign Policy, and Governmental Studies (policy-related studies)

Dirksen Congressional Center - Congressional Research Awards (research on the US Congress)

Dirksen Congressional Center Robert H. Michel Special Project Grants

Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy (social policy)

Institute for Humane Studies Humane Studies Fellowship, and Summer Graduate Research Grants (studies directed towards the “intellectual and institutional foundations of a free society”)

International Foundation for Electoral Systems Democracy Fellowship

John Heinz Dissertation Award (social insurance studies)

John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship (African-American studies)

Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies

National Institute of Justice

National Endowment for Democracy Fellowships

Philips Fund Grant for Native American Research

Udall Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Fellowship

Technology

Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program

Women’s Studies

Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics

Women's Research & Education Institute (WREI) Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy

Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies

Diversity Funding

American Association of University Women

American Political Science Association Minority Fellowship Program (for first-time applicants to doctoral programs in political science)

Ford Foundation Fellowship Program

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (first or second year graduate students, of foreign birth)

Overview

A good first step towards the pursuit of funding would be visiting the UMass Graduate Student Grant Service website, at:

http://www.umass.edu/gradschool/gsgs/

also see their FAQ, at:

and tips, at:

information for international students:

minorities:

and women:

Dissertation, general

APSA Dissertation Awards

http://www.apsanet.org/content_4113.cfm

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program.

http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/index.html

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/ses/polisci/ddrip1.jsp

Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship

http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/idrf-fellowship/

Pre-dissertation, general

Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program (no more than 1 year of graduate study; preferably no completed credits)

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (no more than 1 year of graduate study)

www.nsf.gov/grfp/.

Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship

http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/

Specialized Areas of Study

Global Forces

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Fellows Program

http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/dorot/

East-West center Scholarships and Fellowships (Asia and Pacific studies)

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/education/student-programs/

IREX Fellowships and Grants for Eurasian Studies

http://www.irex.org/programs/us_scholars/uss_info.asp

National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5284&org=NSF

Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program (European studies)

http://www.cdsintl.org/fellowshipsabroad/bosch.php

Social Science Research Council Eurasia Dissertation Support Fellowship

http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/eurasia-fellowship/

Social Science Research Council - Information Technology, International Security, and Global Cooperation Summer Fellowships

http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/

Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship (post-doc or pre-doc)

http://www.cfr.org/about/fellowships/StantonFellowship.html

Governance and Institutions

Brookings Institute - Research Fellowships in Economic, Foreign Policy, and Governmental Studies (policy-related studies)

http://www.brook.edu/admin/fellowships.htm

Dirksen Congressional Center - Congressional Research Awards (research on the US Congress)

Institute for Humane Studies Humane Studies Fellowship, and Summer Graduate Research Grants (studies directed towards the “intellectual and institutional foundations of a free society”),

http://www.theihs.org/ContentDetails.aspx?id=491

http://www.theihs.org/ContentDetails.aspx?id=499

International Foundation for Electoral Systems Democracy Fellowship

http://www.ifes.org/fellowships.html

John Heinz Dissertation Award (social insurance studies)

http://www.nasi.org/studentopps/heinz

National Institute of Justice

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/funding/welcome.htm

Udall Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Fellowship

http://www.udall.gov/OurPrograms/ECRFellowship/ECRFellowship.aspx

Ethics

Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research (research area: ethics and religion)