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.)
- Stanford University, Office of Financial Aid: https://financialaid.stanford.edu/grad/funding/index.html
- Office for Inclusion, Belonging and Intergroup Communication: https://ibic.stanford.edu/offerings
Recommended webpage references for proposal and thesis writing (formatting and style) information
- http://www-tcad.stanford.edu/~goojs/RESEARCH/thesis.html
- http://www.aaanet.org/publications/guidelines.cfm
- http://esapubs.org/esapubs/preparation.htm
- https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-publications/style-guide/saa-style-guide_english_updated_2021_final08023c15928949dabd02faafb269fb1c.pdf?sfvrsn=c1f41c1b_2
- http://www.press.uchicago.edu/journals/ca/style.html?journal=ca
- http://www.sha.org/publications/for_authors.cfm
- http://www.stanford.edu/~jhj1/grant-advice.html
- https://grantwriting.stanford.edu/students/
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] | (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 | November | External | |
| Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships | November | External | |
| Wenner-Gren: The Wadsworth African Fellowships | December | External | |
| Wenner-Gren: Wadsworth International Fellowships | 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 | n/a | Intramural | |
| Ford Foundation | November | Extramural | |
| Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE) Diversity Dissertation Research opportunity Fund (DDRO) | November and April | Intramural | |
| Graduate Research Opportunities (GRO) | 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 | Approx. mid-November | Extramural | |
| The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Emerging Scholars |
Approx. early February |
Extramural | |
| Peace Institute, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program | 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 |
