Funding

Non-programmatic Graduate Funding Support, Search Engines, and Style Guides

This section provides anthropology graduate (and, in some cases undergraduate students) with information on grants and fellowships at a variety of stages during a graduate academic career. The resources provided below direct students to common grant and fellowship sponsoring organizations at Stanford University (intramural) and at organizations external to Stanford University (extramural). The Department of Anthropology is not responsible for the content or information provided below.

Ph.D. Student Funding Support Programs (i.e. cost of living, family, emergency, etc.)

 

Area and Language Training

nAME wEBSITE DEADLINE SOURCE
Critical Language Scholarship Program URL November External
America Indian Institute of Indian Studies URL January External
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) [Department of Education]

Dept. of Education
CEAS
African Studies 
CREEES 
CLAS

(see sponsoring academic institution specific information) External/Internal
ICA Division of International Comparative & Area Studies (Funding Support for Students) URL Various Internal

 

Graduate Training (pre- and post- doc)

The funding opportunities listed below, are structured to provide financial support for Graduate students at the early stages of their graduate studies. Grants and fellowships awards can be given for one or more years. 

nAME wEBSITE DEADLINE SOURCE
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship URL

 November

(this extramural funding application may submitted before submission of a graduate admission application to a Ph.D. degree program)

External
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

GRFP

URL

November External
Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships

URL

November External
Wenner-Gren: The Wadsworth African Fellowships

GRFP

URL

December External
Wenner-Gren: Wadsworth International Fellowships

GRFP

URL

March External
Center for South Asia Fellowships URL April Internal
Explorers Club URL November External
Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program URL

September

(this intramural Scholars Program application must be submitted before submission of a graduate admissions application to a Ph.D. degree program)

Internal
Foreign Language and Area Studies grants URL n/a Internal

 

Dissertation Research

These research grants and fellowships are designed to fund Ph.D. students conducting approved dissertation research usually in the fourth year and beyond.

nAME wEBSITE DEADLINE SOURCE
Fulbright-Hays URL

 n/a

Intramural
Fullbright Grants

URL

 n/a Intramural
Ford Foundation

URL

November Extramural
Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE) Diversity Dissertation Research opportunity Fund (DDRO)

URL

November and April Intramural
Graduate Research Opportunities (GRO)

URL

November and April Intramural
Wenner-Gren Foundation, Dissertation Fieldwork Grants URL November and May Extramural
Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program URL January Extramural
Smithsonian Institution Latino Studies Fellowship Program URL January Extramural
National Sciences Foundation - Law and Social Sciences program URL January Extramural
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program Doctoral Scholarships, and SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships URL January Extramural
Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE) Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF) URL January and March Intramural
National Science Foundation - Cultural Anthropology program URL January and August Extramural
Susan Ford Dorsey Fellowship for Field Research in Africa URL July Extramural
American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship URL July Extramural
National Science Foundation - Archaeology program URL No deadline Extramural
Leakey Foundation URL January and July Extramural
Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Fellowship Program for Environmental Grants URL January Extramural
Center for East Asian Studies Fellowships URL February Intramural
American Institute of Maghrib Studies URL January Intramural
King Center on Global Development, Graduate Student Research Funding URL Late October and Early March each academic year Intramural

 

Dissertation Writing

These funding opportunities provide dissertation writers with financial support for one year facilitating dissertation completion and are usually available to post-field Ph.D. student researchers in the fifth year and beyond.

nAME wEBSITE DEADLINE SOURCE
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowships URL Approx. mid- to late October Extramural
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

URL

Approx. mid-November Extramural
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Emerging Scholars

URL

Approx. early February

Extramural
Peace Institute, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program

URL

Approx. mid-December Extramural
Stanford Humanities Center Graduate Fellowships URL Approx. early to mid-January Intramural
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Teaching Fellows, Dissertation Fellowships, and Technology and Racial Equality Fellowships URL n/a Intramural
O'Bie Shultz Dissertation Completion Grant Canadian Studies URL n/a Intramural
Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law’s Pre-Doctoral Fellowship URL Approx. September Intramural
Center for International Security and Cooperation’s Pre-Doctoral Fellowships URL n/a Intramural
Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society URL Approx. mid-May Intramural
IRISS Dissertation Fellowships URL Approx. mid-February Intramural
Bill Lane Center for the American West - Thomas D. Dee II Graduate Fellowship URL Approx. late April Intramural
Program in History and Philosophy of Science - Lane Dissertation Fellowship in History of Science and Allied Fields URL Approx. mid-April Intramural
Federal Work Study URL Call circulated by SoHS for Financial Aid Office in early Spring Quarter Intramural