Social Sciences scholarships
If you’re in a graduate degree in the social sciences at
Northern Arizona University, these scholarships may interest you
ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research
across the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and
postdoctoral levels.
The APA’s website has links to scholarships and grants available to graduate
students studying psychology and neuroscience.
Internships for graduate students in multiple disciplines for hands-on training
in their fields of interest and those of the DOC.
The GREF program supports graduate students involved in biological and
environmental research-funded at universities and national laboratories.
The Frank Figueroa Memorial Scholarship is intended to recognize and support
excellence in the public service by awarding a stipend to a graduate student
pursuing a Masters of Public Administration.
The fellowship will support
master’s and PhD students who want to serve in professional positions within
foreign-government ministries while also conducting research in policy areas
like public health, energy, and economic development. The awards are available
in Haiti, Thailand, and nine other countries around the world. Under the Obama
administration, the Fulbright Program has put
an emphasis on supporting fellowships that help develop ideas that
contribute to meeting global challenges, like developing renewable energy or
fighting HIV/AIDS.
The Fulbright Program provides participants—chosen for their academic merit and
leadership potential — with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct
research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared
international concerns.
This award is given to a graduate student who is enrolled in full-time master’s
study preparing for a career in state and local government finance.
These scholarships are intended for graduate students who are enrolled
full-time and are studying for a career in state and local government finance.
IFES awards two to four Democracy Studies Fellowships to bring outstanding
graduate students to Washington, D.C. to engage in democracy development
research. Applicants should be pursuing a degree in international relations,
political science, public administration, or a related area.
This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic
ability—selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and
exceptional promise—to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts
level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.
The National Women’s Studies Association offers a graduate scholarship to
graduate students engaged in research focusing on women’s studies.
Support for doctoral research focused on U.S. undergraduate study abroad.
The Abe Fellowship Program seeks to foster the development of a new generation
of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range
importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global
research network.
This fellowship is being offered to graduate students whose cutting-edge,
graduate-level research furthers the study of the African Diaspora. The
fellowship is renewable and is intended to provide research support.
The Truman Scholarship provides funding to students pursuing graduate degrees
in public service fields. Students must be college juniors at the time of
selection.
WREI awards annual fellowships to a select number of graduate students with
proven commitment to equity for women.