Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships

The Council for European Studies (CES) invites eligible graduate students to apply for the 2013 Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships in European Studies.  Each fellowship includes a $25,000 stipend, paid in six (6) bi-monthly installments over the course of the fellowship year, as well as assistance in securing reimbursements or waivers in eligible health insurance and candidacy fees. 

Winners of the Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships will also be expected to participate in a number of professional development activities organized by the Council for European Studies for the benefit of its fellows and designed to support early career development.  These activities include: publishing in Perspectives on Europe, a semi-annual journal of the Council for European studies; presenting at the International Conference of Europeanists, hosted by the Council for European Studies; and participating in several digital and in-person career development seminars and/or workshops.

The Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

Eligibility:
Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships are intended to facilitate the timely completion of the doctoral degree by late-stage graduate students focusing on topics in European Studies.  To be eligible an applicant must be ABD, must be enrolled at a higher education institution in the U.S., and can have no more than one full year of dissertation work remaining at the start of the fellowship year as certified by his or her dissertation advisor.  The applicant must also have exhausted the dissertation completion funding normally provided by his or her academic department or university, and he or she must be working on a topic within or substantially overlapping European Studies.

To be eligible to receive the fellowship, applicants must also be enrolled in an institution that is a member of the CES Academic Consortium.  However, students whose universities are not currently members of the CES consortium may apply, but they are encouraged to apply early in the application season so that every effort may be made to enroll the institution in the CES member consortium and, thus, establish the student's eligibility by the application deadline.

Deadlines:
Applications are due (along with all supporting materials) on or before February 4.

For more information, visit: http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/grants-and-awards/dissertation-completion.
 

SSSP Graduate Student Paper Competition

The Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in cooperation with the Sage journal Critical Sociology announces its 2013 Graduate Student Paper Competition. The goal is to encourage critical scholarship in the areas of global or transnational studies and social problems. Suggested paper topics include but are not limited to the following themes:

DEADLINE: January 31

• Transnational Public Sociology;
• Knowledge Production about Globalization;
• Democratizing Globalization
• The Politics of Human Rights;
• Re-imagining Community;
• Critical and/or Institutional Ethnography and Global Governance;
• Transnational Corporate Accountability
• Immigration, Citizenship, and Global Justice;
• Globalization and Environmental Justice;
• Transnational Movements;
• Transnational Organizing within the Global South;
• Gender Issues in Globalization; and
• Transnational Families.

Jointly-authored papers are accepted, but all contributing authors must be current graduate students or have graduated not prior to January 1, 2013. The award recipient will receive student membership in the SSSP, conference registration at the 2013 Annual SSSP Meeting in New York, a ticket to the SSSP awards banquet and a $400 prize (this award has been made possible in part by support from the Sage Journal Critical Sociology). Award recipients are expected to present their paper at the 2013 Annual Meeting. Winning papers will be invited to submit their paper for publication in Critical Sociology. Papers must be submitted electronically in a format compatible with MS WORD and authors should ensure that they receive a confirmation of receipt for their submission. Although faculty sponsorship is not formally required to enter the competition, participants are invited to request a note from a faculty member or independent scholar that speaks to the academic quality of the submission and they should be emailed directly to the addresses below. Note: Previous winners of this award are ineligible to compete. Papers should be double-spaced pages and not exceed 10,000 words including citations. Submissions must be sent by January 31, 2013 to Dr. Tony Roshan Samara at tsamara@gmu.edu.

Greater Good Science Center Research Fellowship

Apply for a Research Fellowship from UC Berkeley’s

Greater Good Science Center!

The Greater Good Science Center studies the psychology, sociology, and neuroscience of well-being, and teaches skills that foster a thriving, resilient, and compassionate society.

Every year, the GGSC grants research awards to UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students whose work relates to our mission. We aim to attract scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines including neuroscience, psychology, sociology, public health, social welfare, business, and more. 

We are interested in work that relates to themes like:

§  The biological underpinnings of empathy, pro-social emotions and altruism

§  Contexts and practices that promote well-being, both individually and interpersonally

§  The impact of pro-social states like compassion and gratitude on health at individual, local and global levels 

Take a look at the great work being done by our current GGSC Fellows!

Application information can be found here.

Applications may be submitted online beginning March 1, and must be submitted by Monday, April 15th, 2013.

If you have questions, please email ggscfellowships@berkeley.edu. 

Center for British Studies Dissertation Writing Grant

The Center for British Studies would like to call your attention to our Dissertation Writing Grant, which is open to graduate students in their fifth year and beyond:

Two grants of $10,000 will be awarded to two students in order to fund each of them for a semester of dissertation writing. The grant is meant to support projects in their final stages of composition. To be eligible, students must be in their fifth year or later of their PhD program and must provide in their application a letter of recommendation, a description of the dissertation, and an account of the current state of the dissertation (i.e., what has been accomplished and what remains to be done). 

 Deadline: March 1

Applications should be submitted by email to ctrbs@berkeley.edu.

Questions should be directed to ctrbs@berkeley.edu

Berkeley Social Justice Fellowship

 We are now accepting applications for the Berkeley Social Justice Fellowship, which provides three $2,000 stipends for Cal sociology graduate students to conduct summer internships with social change organizations. This is an opportunity to hone practical research skills outside of the academy, collect data (ideally for a master's paper or article), and—hopefully—contribute to a social cause that you believe in. The application deadline is March 18.

This is the second year of the Fellowship, and we are continuing to build our network of organizations. We have created a Google Doc of organizations that have been recommended by alumni, grad students, and faculty (we’d be grateful for more suggestions!). As you can see in the database, some of these organizations have already expressed interest in hosting graduate students and proposed projects. You may pick from this list or select an organization of your own choosing. 

Last summer, Fellows worked with the Environmental Defense Fund (an organization that ties economic prosperity and environmental protection), the California Reentry Program (a non-profit organization housed at San Quentin State Prison), and dowser.org (an online news site dedicated to covering stories of innovative social change). Fellows provided research support including: survey design, report writing, data construction, management and analysis, reviews of academic literature, and qualitative research.

We are somewhat flexible about the timing and duration of the internship, but we expect Fellows to work around 6-8 weeks, or 240 hours over a longer period of time.  All fellows must commit to a preparation meeting before the summer and a feedback meeting after to present their research and internship experience.  

HOW TO APPLY:

If you are considering applying, please send an email indicating your interest to rfelliott@berkeley.edu as soon as possible so that we can gauge interest in the Fellowship. Formal applications should be sent to the same address by 5 pm on Monday, March 18. The application consists of a CV or resume and a cover letter that explains: 

(a) Your interest in working for an organization of your choice;
(b) How this work will contribute to social justice;
(c) How this work will contribute to your career.

Additionally, you must submit a letter of support from your host organization detailing your specific duties as an intern, and how this will contribute to its mission and work. If you are interested in working with one of the organizations listed in the database and would like us to facilitate an e-introduction, let us know. If you are not able to secure the letter by the deadline, please let us know and we will consider granting extensions.  

EDWARD HILDEBRAND GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP

The EDWARD HILDEBRAND FELLOWSHIP FUND for BERKELEY has been established from the bequest of Edward Eric Hildebrand, MD, born and trained in Canada and formerly of Fresno, California, in support of graduate students pursuing a course of study in a field related to the Canadian Studies Program. The fellowship program will be administered by the Canadian Studies Program. Decisions about awards will be made by the holder of the Thomas Garden Barnes Chair in Canadian Studies in consultation with other Canadian Studies faculty. For application process see below.

ELIGIBILITY
The fellowship competition is open to graduate students of any citizenship enrolled at Berkeley whose research focuses primarily or comparatively on Canada. The applicant should demonstrate the potential for excellent scholarship and describe a project which will contribute to knowledge about Canada and/or the Canadian-U.S. relationship. Funds are intended for direct travel and research costs. Maintenance and/or tuition costs may be considered under rare circumstances, and only in the final stage of the student’s dissertation writing.


It is anticipated that several fellowships per year may be awarded, in the range of $5,000 – 10,000.  Fellowships may be awarded for more than one year but a new application will be required each year. Students will be required to submit a brief report of progress made under the grant. Students who have received Hildebrand support in the past may reapply for travel and research funds. Hildebrand fellows are expected  to participate in the interdisciplinary activities of the Program, including our bag lunch talks and other events on a wide range of topics. (See the Canadian Studies program online calendar). Advanced graduate students will be invited to share their work with other Canadianists at one of these frequent meetings.


The Program adheres to the cap on stipends set by the Graduate Division, currently $25,000 total for all fellowships awarded, excluding those specifically earmarked for tuition and travel.

DEADLINES
For Summer research,  March 18
For Fall-Spring academic year funding, May 10

For more information:  http://canada.berkeley.edu/hildebrand.html

APSA Section on The Race, Politics, and Ethnicity - Best Dissertation Award

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

The Race, Politics, and Ethnicity Section of the American Political Science Association is accepting nominations for Best Dissertation completed in the period January 2012 to December 2012. Nominations and accompanying materials will be accepted until April 30.

The selection will be announced at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Nominations can be made by chairs of dissertation committees or individuals completing the dissertation. A nomination must include a precis of the dissertation (no more than 20 pages) and a brief cover letter explaining how the dissertation expands our understanding of race, ethnicity, and politics. After a review of the nomination materials submitted, members of the Best Dissertation Committee will request 4 hard copies of the complete dissertation of some nominees.

The Best Dissertation award is based on the following criteria -- the dissertation:

• makes an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of historical and/or contemporary processes of racial and ethnic information
• addresses critical substantive issues through which racial and ethnic politics are played out
• generates discourse for innovative frameworks (and analyses) for the study of race, ethnicity, and politics
• is well-written; and is analytically rigorous (primary source data, case material, extant analyses, new or underutilized methodology)

For more information http://www.apsarep.org/section-awards.html