The Center for the Study of Women and Society is now accepting submissions for the 2025-2026 Koonja Mitchell Memorial Prize ($2000) and the Sue Rosenberg Zalk Endowed Fund Award ($4000). Please consider applying.   The Koonja Mitchell Memorial Prize  – The prize of $2000.00 will be awarded to a student working on a dissertation concerned with issues of gender and social justice. Special… Read More

IRADAC Fellows Program Fall 2026/Spring 2027 Purpose The IRADAC Fellowship provides institutional and intellectual support for twelve Ph.D. candidates at the dissertation writing stage. Organized around an interdisciplinary seminar, the IRADAC Fellowship offers sustained support among scholars working on any area of the African Diaspora. During the academic year, fellows will have the opportunity to take… Read More

Please see below for the Early Research Initiative summer research award deadlines:   Archival Research Awards in American Studies and African American/African Diaspora Studies – applications due January 28, 2026 (open to students at level II and level III) Pre-Dissertation Summer Awards for Humanities and Social Sciences – applications due February 3, 2026 (for students at level… Read More

20th-Century US Foundations: Fellowship Opportunity & Spring 2026 Course Offering The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at the CUNY Graduate Center is offering up to eight $1,250 fellowships for participants in a spring 2026 course on 20th-Century American Foundations developed in collaboration with the doctoral program in history and the Rockefeller Archive Center [RAC].… Read More

We are currently accepting applications for the 2026 cycle for the Belle Zeller Scholarship, with awards designated for the fall of 2026. The scholarship, established in 1979 in honor of Professor Belle Zeller, recognizes her pioneering contributions to the American Labor Movement and her tenure at Brooklyn College from 1930 until her retirement in 1973.… Read More

2026 Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation and Post-MFA Fellowship: Political Science – Employment   Qualifications The Bolin Fellowships are awarded to applicants who show exceptional promise as scholars, who have an interest in and capacity for teaching students in a community that is broadly diverse with regard to, among other things, race, gender, citizenship, ethnicity, religion,… Read More

The Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for two Dissertation Fellowship Scholars for the academic year 2025-26. We seek Dissertation Scholars working in Interdisciplinary, Social Science, Humanities, and STEM disciplines whose research focus is specifically situated within Black Studies. The Department is especially interested in candidates who can… Read More

The Center for the Study of Women and Society is accepting submissions for the Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize ($300) to be awarded to an outstanding dissertation completed at the CUNY Graduate Center in the given academic year. The prize is meant to recognize a dissertation that is in the interest of the humanities with the broad intellectual aims… Read More