Grants and Fellowships Information

As you go through our graduate program you will need to plan ahead, especially with regard to applying for fellowships for predissertation and doctoral dissertation research in the Middle East. Keep in mind that most fellowships have application deadlines about a year in advance of your expected date of departure; that is, you will need to apply in September-November of one year for fellowships that begin in September of the following year. That means that you must begin developing your doctoral dissertation research plans quite early in your graduate career.

Search Engines to Locate External Fellowships

• From Cornell
• From Harvard (for grants)
• From Harvard (for post-doctoral fellowships)

Grant Proposal Advice from the Pros

• SSRC
• UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies (this site is intended to provide advice for the dissertation proposal, but clearly also addresses the closely related process of writing a grant proposal)
• American Council of Learned Societies
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Fulbright (some of this is very specific to the Fulbright application; the general tips on proposal writing are more broadly applicable)

Note: In the list below, the * indicates a grant that is open to non-US citizens

Language Study Grants

• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)
  

Pre-Dissertation Grants

• GSAS predoctoral summer fellowships*
  
• DPDF Student Fellowship (from the SSRC)*
• ARCE Pre-dissertation travel grants

Internal GSAS Research Grants

• Elaine Brody fellowship for the Humanities*
• Lane Cooper Fellowship*

External Research Grants

• Social Science Research Counsil (SSRC) Fellowships*
  
• American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
• American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Fellowship Program*
  
• American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) Fellowship Program*
• American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) Fellowship Program
• American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS) Fellowship Program
• American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Fellowship Program*
  
• CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowships
• CAORC Andrew W. Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship
• Fulbright Program and Fellowships
• International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) Grants

Write-up Grants (for the final year of dissertation writing)

Internal

• Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship*
  
• Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities*
  

External:

• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships*
  
• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships*
  
• Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies*

Miscellaneous Grants

• The Dolores Zohrab Liebman Fellowship
• Harry Frank Guggenheim dissertation fellowships*   
  
• NSEP Graduate International Fellowships
• Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans (for permanent residents or citizens of U.S.)
• Jean Monnet Fellowships
• European University Institute Mediterranean Programme