The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards (formerly the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships) recognize promising graduate-student researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.
Deadline: February
Value: The award is $25,000 for one year and contributes to the support of a doctoral candidate to enable the completion of a dissertation that advances the Foundation’s research interests described above in a timely manner.
Eligibility: PhD students at candidacy who are in the final stages of completing the dissertation. Applicants may be citizens of any country and studying at colleges or universities in any country.
Topics: War; Crime; Terrorism; Family and intimate-partner relationships; Climate instability and natural resource competition; Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict; Political extremism and nationalism
Fellowship Type: Graduate, International Students
Category: Dissertation
Nomination: No, but encouraged to work with the Fellowships Office
