Welcome to the Department of Sociology at The University of Colorado at Boulder

Index of Outside Resources:

I. Cooke Foundation (Jack Kent) Graduate Scholarship Program

II. Ford Foundation Dissertation Diversity Fellowships

III. Udall Foundation

V. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

VI. Social Science Research Council
(15 different funding sources)

VII. National Science Foundation: Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Guidelines

VIII. The Javits FellowshipVIV. The ASA Minority Fellowship

X. American Indian Graduate Center

XI. National Institute of Justice

Department of Sociology Awards:

The Department of Sociology, through the Graduate Committee, offers four annual awards for Graduate Student Scholarship. Deadline for submission of materials is announced each spring. The applications are evaluated by committees of two faculty and one graduate student, all members of the Graduate Committee.

1. Out-of-Pocket Dissertation Expenses: $1,000 (may be divided between two students). This Award will be given to a student to assist with future (not past) out-of-pocket dissertation expenses, such as (but not restricted to) data gathering travel, transcription, photocopying, postage for questionnaires, purchase of secondary data, printing costs, purchase of equipment for audio or video recording. No travel to professional conferences will be covered. Note that no cash will be awarded directly to the student. The Department will set up a research account from which the student can be reimbursed for documented expenses (original receipts required). Each applicant should submit a 750-word description of the dissertation, with a statement of whether or not the dissertation has been approved by the student's committee, plus a one-page single spaced outline of what expenses are anticipated. Proposals not yet defended or students who have not formed committees will lose points. The applications will be evaluated on the quality and significance of the project as well as budget justification and the potential for the Award to have an impact on the quality of the dissertation. Satisfactory progress toward completion of the degree also counts.

2007/08 - Allison Hicks
2006/07- Tara Opsal
2005/06 - Jarron Saint Onge
2004/05 - Jennifer Snook
2003/04 - Keri Brandt and Brian Klocke
2002/03 - William Rocque
2001/02 - Patrick Gillham and Linda Ramos

2. Outstanding Research paper: $500.00, which goes to the student’s account. Papers should be a maximum of 5,000 words (approximately 25 pages) plus citations, ASR format, prepared for blind reviews. Co-authored papers, published papers, or papers submitted for publication are NOT eligible. One submission per person.

2007/08 - Marc Eaton
2006/07 - Colter Ellis
2005/06 - Marshall Smith
2004/05 - Emmanuel David
2003/04 - Jeannette Sutton
2002/03 - Lori Peek
2001/02 - Patrick Gillham

3. Ralph and Barbara Dakin Award: This cash award (usually $1,000) was made possible by an endowed gift to the Department by Ralph Dakin (who received his Ph.D. from this Department in 1958) and his spouse. The purpose of the award is to recognize "outstanding scholarship that contributes to peace, inter-cultural understanding, resolution of conflict, or amelioration of important social problems." The Award is made by the Faculty, Department of Sociology. Any member of the faculty can nominate a student. Students wishing to nominate themselves or another student should ask a member of the faculty to write the nomination letter. To nominate a student, please submit a letter (and any supporting materials) to the graduate committee. All graduate students who have been enrolled in our program for at least two years, or former students who completed their Ph.D.s within the last three years, are eligible.

2007/08 - Eric Bonds
2006/06 - Brian Klocke
2005/06 - Duke Austin
2004/05 - Jill Williams
2003/04 - Hillary Potter
2002/03 - Marci L. Eads
2001/02 - Ellis Jones, Ross Haenfler and Brett Johnson

4. GTPI Award: Given each fall to a student with outstanding FCQs and GPA (based on previous academic year’s records). The winner is recognized at the Department’s annual fall meeting, and his or her name is added to a plaque in the Department’s office. This is not the same as the Graduate School's GPTI Award.

2005/06 - Ali Hatch
2004/05 - Katherine Sirles
2003/04 - Robert Duran
2002/03 - Brett Johnson
2001/02 - Jeffrey London

General Awards:

Betsy Moen Award: Elizabeth “Betsy” Moen Mathiot, was an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1976 to 1993. She died in Madurai, India, on March 11, 1993, leaving a unique legacy of scholarship and social action. Betsy’s notion of an ideal and more useful university education was one that encourages and facilitates students’ becoming involved in the world and being idealistically generous in that involvement; one that does not just talk, muse, analyze, dissect, criticize, and pine from a distance about the world, but one that gets into the world, into the complexity and messiness of it and concretely contributes to it at the same time that one studies it; an education that promotes, for example, service learning, volunteering, internships, and the first-hand study of social issues, social contexts, and social structures.

In an effort to recognize and celebrate others whose work is similar in spirit to Dr. Moen’s, the Feminist Scholars in Sociology* – of which Betsy was a member – is taking nominations for the 2006 Walk the Talk Award. Nominees may be faculty, staff, graduate students, or undergraduate students doing sociological work (although they need not be working in the Department of Sociology). Nominees should be self-identified feminists seeking to improve the lives of women through their research, activism, and/or teaching. You may nominate yourself or someone else to receive this recognition (which includes a $500 cash award). Faculty or staff may be honored with the award; however only students of the University of Colorado at Boulder may be given the cash award.

Application Process: The nominator must complete the application form (MS Word Format) and include a statement from the nominee. The nominee must also include a statement explaining how the award money will be used. All application material should be returned to Tara Opsal’s mailbox in the Department of Sociology main office, Ketchum 218, or mail the nomination to Tara Opsal, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, 327 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0327. Nominations must be in hard copy form – e-mailed submissions will not be accepted. If you have questions, please contact . All application material is due FRIDAY, APRIL 7 TH.

*Feminist Scholars in Sociology is a collective of researchers and teachers at the University of Colorado at Boulder, interested in exploring, sharing, and supporting feminist theory, methodology, and activism.

2007/08 - Emmanuel David
2006/07 - Devon Thacker
2005/06 - Ali Hatch

I. Cooke Foundation (Jack Kent) Graduate Scholarship Program Website

Deadline: April 30
Each award covers a portion of educational expenses, including tuition, living expenses, required fees, and books for the graduate degree chosen. The amount and duration of awards vary by student based on the cost of attendance and the length of the graduate program as well as other scholarships or grants received. The maximum available per student is $50,000 per year and the maximum length is six years. Students interested in this scholarship must be nominated by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Faculty Representative at their institution. Please see the list of designated faculty representatives. Students may not apply directly to the Foundation for this program. Please see the Guidelines for more details

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program will award approximately 65 scholarships to seniors and recent graduates planning to attend graduate school for the first time starting this fall.

Award

Each award covers a portion of educational expenses, including tuition, living expenses, required fees, and books for the graduate degree chosen. The amount and duration of awards vary by student based on the cost of attendance and the length of the graduate program as well as other scholarships or grants received. The maximum available per student per year of study is $50,000 and the maximum length is six years.

Getting Nominated

Students interested in this scholarship must be nominated by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Faculty Representative at their institution. Please see the list of designated faculty representatives. Students may not apply directly to the Foundation for this program.

Application Guidelines and Materials

Please click on the Application Materials link above to access the application forms, nominee guidelines, and financial information forms.

Application Deadline

The application deadline for the 2006 competition is May 1, 2006. (Please note that most colleges will have ealier internal deadlines. Contact your faculty representative for this information.)

Program and Application Inquiries

If you have questions about the Graduate Scholarship Program, please call 1-800-498-6478 or email OR CU Contact: Lori A. Goodman; Special Scholarships Advisor; University of Colorado-Boulder; 365 UCB, SK-492 Norlin Library; Boulder, CO 80309; ; (303) 735-6801

II. Ford Foundation Dissertation Diversity Fellowships
Website

Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. This year the program will award approximately 35 dissertation fellowships.

Criteria for Selection

The following will be considered as positive factors in choosing successful candidates:

Evidence of superior academic achievement
Degree of promise of continuing achievement as scholars and teachers
Membership in one or more of the following groups whose under representation in the American professoriate has been severe and longstanding:

o Alaska Natives (Eskimo or Aleut)
o Black/African Americans
o Mexican Americans/Chicanas/Chicanos
o Native American Indians
o Native Pacific Islanders (Polynesian/Micronesian)
o Puerto Ricans

Capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds
Sustained personal engagement with communities that are underrepresented in the academy and an ability to bring this asset to learning, teaching, and scholarship at the college and university level
Likelihood of using the diversity of human experience as an educational resource in teaching and scholarship
Review panels may also look at additional factors such as the suitability of the applicant's proposed institution and the likelihood that the applicant will fully utilize 9 to 12 months of support prior to receiving the Ph.D. or Sc.D.

Eligible Fields of Study

Awards will be made for study in research-based Ph.D. or Sc.D. programs that include the following major disciplines and related interdisciplinary fields: anthropology, archaeology, art history, astronomy, chemistry, communications, computer science, earth sciences, economics, education, engineering, ethnomusicology, geography, history, international relations, language, life sciences, linguistics, literature, mathematics, performance study, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, and urban planning.

Individuals enrolled in the following practice-oriented programs will not be supported: business, management, administration, occupational health, nursing, home economics, library and information science, speech pathology, audiology, personnel, guidance, social work, social welfare, public health, physical education, physical therapy, rehabilitation science, educational administration and leadership, fine arts, filmmaking, and performing arts. In addition, awards will not be made for work leading to terminal master’s degrees, the Ed.D. degree, the degrees of Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) or Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.), or professional degrees in such areas as medicine, law, and public health, or for study in joint degree programs such as the M.D./Ph.D., J.D./Ph.D., and M.F.A./Ph.D.

Fellowship Institution

Fellowships are tenable at any fully accredited, nonprofit U.S. institution of higher education offering a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree in the eligible fields of study.

Verification of Doctoral Degree Candidacy

A valid National Academies Verification of Doctoral Degree Candidacy Form, signed by the adviser or other authorized official, must be received by the Fellowships Office of the National Academies by January 18, 2006 to confirm that an applicant has advanced to doctoral candidacy.
Applicants should expect to complete the dissertation during the 2006-2007 academic year, but no later than fall 2007.

Stipend and Benefits

One-year stipend: $21,000
Expenses paid to attend one Conference of Ford Fellows (see below)
Access to Ford Fellow Liaisons, a network of former Ford Fellows who have volunteered to provide mentoring and support to current fellows.

Tenure

The tenure of a dissertation fellowship will be no less than 9 months and no more than 12 months, with tenure beginning no earlier than June 1, 2006 and no later than September 1, 2006.

III. Udall Foundation

Dissertation fellowships are open to scholars in all fields of study whose dissertation topic has significant relevance to national environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution. Previous fellows' fields of study include political science; economics; government; environmental science, policy and management; ecology; environmental justice; regional planning; geography; natural resource policy; and environmental analysis and design.

Criteria

The dissertation topic is relevant, significant, and applicable to U.S. national environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution;
The scholar has demonstrated scholarly excellence and the potential to make a significant contribution to his/her field;
The scholar has demonstrated personal commitment to national environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution, and an understanding of Morris K. Udall's environmental legacy;
The dissertation will be completed no later than June 30, 2007 (reviewers will carefully evaluate the scholar’s timeline to assess its feasibility).

Cross or interdisciplinary projects are particularly welcome.

Eligibility

Each applicant must:

Have completed all coursework and passed all preliminary exams;
Have approval for the dissertation research proposal by February 3, 2006;
Be entering the final year of writing the dissertation;
Be a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, or U.S. national.

Ph.D. candidates who hold a fellowship for the purpose of writing the dissertation during the year preceding or coinciding with the Udall Fellowship are not eligible.

IV. The Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program for Advanced Multi-Country Research

• The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. CAORC member centers to which fellows may affiliate include the American Academy in Rome; the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman; the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (Tunisia and Morocco); the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies; the American Institute for Yemeni Studies; the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies; the American Institute of Indian Studies; the American Institute of Iranian Studies; the American Institute of Pakistan Studies; the American Research Center in Egypt; the American Research Institute in Turkey; the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; the Center for Khmer Studies, the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute; the Mexico-North Research Network, the Palestinian American Research Center; the West African Research Association (West African Region); and the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. Given changing restrictions to many countries, applicants should contact CAORC before preparing a proposal.

• It is anticipated that approximately ten awards of up to $9,000 each will be given to scholars who wish to carry out research on broad questions of multi-country significance in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and related natural sciences. Scholars must carry out research in at least one of the countries which host overseas research centers: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Senegal/West Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, West Bank/Gaza Strip and Yemen, as well as in other countries unless subject to official security and/or travel restrictions or warnings. Research in Nepal is possible via the Center for South Asia Libraries; please contact CAORC for more information. Fellows are required to obtain their own research permissions in countries that do not host centers.

• Fellows will be selected by the CAORC grants panel made up of scholars accustomed to conducting regional and trans-regional research. Scholars will be judged according to their intellectual capacity and maturity and fitness for fieldwork, and their proposals for significance, relevance, and potential contribution to regional and/or trans-regional scholarly research. Scholars may apply individually or in teams.

• Doctoral candidates who have completed all Ph.D. requirements with the exception of the dissertation and established post-doctoral scholars are eligible to apply as individuals or in teams. Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative and/or cross-regional questions requiring research in two or more countries. All applicants must be U.S. citizens.

V. THE HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION

Guidelines for Submitting Applications for Dissertation Fellowships

The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.

In addition to our program of support for postdoctoral research, ten or more dissertation fellowships are awarded each year to individuals who will complete the writing of the dissertation within the award year. These fellowships of $15,000 each are designed to contribute to the support of the doctoral candidate to enable him or her to complete the thesis in a timely manner, and it is only appropriate to apply for support for the final year of Ph.D. work. Applications are evaluated in comparison with each other and not in competition with the postdoctoral research proposals. Applicants may be citizens of any country and studying at colleges or universities in any country.

Particular questions that interest the foundation concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare, crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence. Research with no useful relevance to understanding and attempting to cope with problems of human violence and aggression will not be supported, nor will proposals to investigate urgent social problems where the foundation cannot be assured that useful, sound research can be done. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.

Timing

Applications for dissertation fellowships must be received by February 1 for a decision in June. Applications are reviewed during the spring term and final decisions are made by the Board of Directors at its meeting in June. Applicants will be informed promptly by letter of the Board's decision. Awards ordinarily commence on September 1, but other starting dates (after July 1) may be requested if the nature of the project makes this appropriate.

Taxation

A recipient of a dissertation fellowship may be liable for income taxes on funds awarded, depending on whether the funds are used to pay tuition and certain other related expenses, the amount of the recipient's other income, the law of the recipient's domicile, and other factors. The foundation will not provide advice on tax matters. Applicants should consult their own tax advisors to determine the tax consequences to them of receiving a dissertation fellowship.

Final Report

A final report to the foundation is mandatory. Recipients of dissertation fellowships must submit a copy of the dissertation, approved and accepted by the home university or college, within six months after the end of the award year. Any papers, books, articles, or other publications based on the research should also be sent to the foundation.

Application Procedure

Submit THREE copies of a typewritten application in English to The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 25 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019-5401. The deadline for receipt by the foundation is February 1 each year, for support to begin September 1 of that calendar year. Late or incomplete applications will not be processed. Applications may not be submitted by fax. Attend to the following items, including them in each of the three copies.

Please note: The forms for items A and B (below) must be either downloaded from the foundation website or requested from the foundation. (These forms are in Acrobat format.) A $15,000 fellowship will only contribute to the support of an individual during an entire dissertation year. Have you other sources of support? Will you be working? Have you applied for other fellowships? Alternatively, it may be that our $15,000 award will support you for intense full-time work for a few months, which will enable you to finish the dissertation. We would like to see that you have thought about these practical matters.

Deadline: The applications are due in our offices on February 1. If that falls on a weekend, the deadline is the following Monday. We do not accept any application materials by fax, and we do not extend the deadline for any reason. Please do not ask for an extension; it is not fair to applicants who submit proposals in time to accept late submissions. We will always say no, despite your reason. If your application involves long distances and complicated coordination with advisor, registrar, etc., you should begin the process earlier than applicants with simpler schedules.

In summary, the mistakes made most often in the past are these:

Applicant will not finish the dissertation in the grant year.
* Project is not directly relevant to violence, aggression, or dominance.
* Only one copy arrives.
* Three copies arrive but are not collated.
* Application arrives in our office after the due date.
* Advisor's letter and c.v. arrive separately, and/or late, and/or in only one copy.
* No research plan.
* No title page, no abstract, or no protection-of-subjects statement.
* No note on other support.

Please avoid these careless errors and omissions. They will seriously diminish your chances of receiving a fellowship.

Further Information

Requests for further information should be directed to The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, 25 West 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10019-5401, or by telephone to (646) 428-0971, or fax to (646) 428-0981. To discuss an application in detail, call or write to our program officers.

VI. SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL:

A. Predissertation Fellowship for International Collaboration (PFIC)
Deadline: March 31, 2006
The Predissertation Fellowship for International Collaboration (PFIC) supports graduate students from the humanities or social sciences currently enrolled in a PhD program at an accredited university in the United States. Applicants must remain at the predissertation level throughout the fellowship tenure. Fellowships may include up to three months of dedicated research and/or training outside of the United States. Applicants will be notified of the competition results by April 30, 2006.

B. ESRC-SSRC Collaborative Visiting Fellowship
Deadline: April 20, 2006
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) are pleased to announce a fellowship for U.S. and Canadian scholars to visit and engage in collaborative activities with members of ESRC-supported projects in Britain, or for British scholars at ESRC-supported projects to visit collaborators in the U.S. or Canada, between June 2006 and September 2007. Approximately ten research fellowships of up to $8,500 (approx. £5,000) will be awarded. Awards will be announced during the first week of May 2006.

C. ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships
Scholars who are at least two years beyond their PhD may apply for 6-12 month fellowships to pursue research and writing on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Near and Middle East, Latin America, East Europe and the former Soviet Union. This fellowship is administered by the American Council for Learned Societies. Further information is available at the ACLS website.

D. Eurasia Postdoctoral Language Training Fellowships
These awards support postdoctoral scholars in their desire to broaden existing, or advance new research projects that require additional language acquisition. Having been created in response to growing demand by mid-career academics, these fellowships will be offered for the first time during the 2006 fellowship cycle. Funds are available for new language acquisition and/or for increased language competency in one or more languages of the Eurasian region. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents to apply.

E. Eurasia Teaching Fellowship
The Eurasia Program Teaching Fellowship supports faculty members, at all career levels, wishing to create and implement significantly revised or wholly new university courses on or related to any of the New States of Eurasia, the Soviet Union, and/or the Russian Empire. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents to apply.

F. Eurasia Program Dissertation Development Workshop
This workshop provides full-time graduate students, from relevant social science and humanities disciplines whose projects examine Eurasia, with the opportunity to receive creative and critical input on their dissertation projects and to address the workshop's theme more generally. Applicants may be at any stage of their dissertation process (from proposal development to write-up); however, they must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The 2006 workshop, "Governance and Mobility in Eurasia: Continuity and Discontinuity," will be held March 31- April 2, 2006 at the University of Madison, Wisconsin.

G. Eurasia Title VIII Fellowships
The Eurasia program currently offers several fellowships at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels for research, writing, training, and curriculum development on or related to any of the New States of Eurasia, the Soviet Union, and/or the Russian Empire. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Awards will be announced in early May 2006.

Predissertation Training Fellowship
This fellowship provides funding to graduate students in the early stages of their graduate careers to enhance their training in language learning, analytical/methodological skills, and exploratory research.
Dissertation Write-up Fellowship
This fellowship is intended for graduate students nearing the completion of their doctoral programs, who expect to finish writing their dissertation during the 2006-2007 academic year.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
This fellowship aims to provide recent PhD recipients and junior faculty with support to focus on significantly revising or re-writing an existing project or on designing a new project.

H. International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF)
The IDRF program supports full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in doctoral programs in the U.S., regardless of citizenship, conducting dissertation field research in all areas and regions of the world. Fifty fellowships of up to $20,000 will be awarded annually with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Applicants will be notified of the competition results in April 2006.

I. Institute on Islam and Muslims in America
The SSRC, in partnership with The New York Times Company Foundation and The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, sponsors a week-long institute that explores in-depth the practice of Islam and the Muslim experience in America. The 2005 seminar, entitled "Covering Islam and Muslims in America," focused on Islamic practices and communities, and provided journalists with context and understanding of issues essential to framing news stories with a greater depth of understanding of American Muslim life and its transnational dimensions. The seminar was held November 6-10, 2005 in Los Angeles.

J. JSPS Fellowship Program
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship Program provides recent PhD recipients (and ABD’s—please see program eligibility requirements) with opportunities to conduct research in Japan under the leadership of a host researcher. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Applicants will be notified by JSPS in mid-summer 2006. Fellows will be selected by JSPS based on nominations made by the SSRC Japan Advisory Board. Applicants will be notified of their nomination status in early spring 2006.

K. SSRC-Mellon Mays Predoctoral Research Grant
This SSRC-Mellon Mays program builds on the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, an effort to support scholars committed to diversity on the faculties of American colleges and universities. Only those students recognized as Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows and currently enrolled in doctoral programs in Mellon designated fields are eligible to apply.

L. South Asia Regional Fellowship Program
The South Asia Program provides support to college and university faculty, permanently residing and teaching in South Asia, to prepare an article of sufficient quality to be published in a major social science journal or to ready a monograph for publication by an academic press. Applicants must hold a PhD in the social sciences, humanities, or related fields. The fellowship theme for the 2005-06 competition is The ‘Long’ 1950s. A list of fellows is available here.

VII. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Guidelines

Proposals for Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants submitted to the Sociology Program must comply with and have the following information:

Target Dates - February 15 and October 15: Projects should be received in the Sociology Program by these dates. The start date for projects recommended for support may begin July 1 (for February 15 submissions) and on March 1 (for October 15 submissions).
Project Duration : 12 months
Project Budget : Dissertation grants are for $7,500 or less. Funds are for expenses associated with conducting the dissertation research (e.g., data collection, field work, payment to subjects, survey expenses, software, microfilm, data transcription, file creation and data merging, courses on specialized skills such as those offered at ICPSR, travel, and expenses incurred at sites away from the student’s home institution). The grant does not support stipend, salary and tuition reimbursement.
Proposal Title should begin with, "Doctoral Dissertation Research:...”
P.I.: The dissertation advisor should be listed as the Principal Investigator. The dissertation student may be listed as the Co-Principal Investigator.
Project Summary: Students must clearly address, in separate, labeled, sections within the one-page limitation, both of the NSF merit review criteria in the Project Summary. The intellectual merit portion should include, minimally, background information on the research (theory, prior research), research hypotheses and/or questions, and a description of methods and expected findings. The broader impacts portion might address such questions as: How well does the activity advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training or learning? What may be the benefits of the proposed activity to society? (see the Grant Proposal Guide for more detail).
Project Description must not exceed 10 single pages. Do not sent transcripts and letters of recommendation but include any questionnaire or survey guide for original data collection.
Font and Spacing: Proposals must have 2.5 cm margins at the top, bottom and on each side. The type size must be clear and readily legible, and conform to the following three requirements: 1) the height of the letters must not be smaller than 10 point; 2) type density must be no more than 15 characters per 2.5 cm; (for proportional spacing, the average for any representative section of text must not exceed 15 characters per 2.5 cm); and, 3) no more than 6 lines must be within a vertical space of 2.5 cm. The type size used throughout the proposal must conform to all three requirements. While line spacing (single-spaced, double-spaced, etc.) is at the discretion of the student, established page limits must be followed. The guidelines specified above establish the minimum type size requirements, PIs, however, are advised that readability is of paramount importance and should take precedence in selection of an appropriate font for use in the proposal.
IRB: For proposals involving human subjects, please be sure to email or fax (703-292-9195) the Human Subjects Certification form from the submitting institution. If the certification is pending, please include information to that effect on the cover sheet. The institutional form certifying that the project has been approved should be scanned and incorporated in a file in the supplementary documents section of the proposal. PLEASE DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED OF FUNDING TO START THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS.
Proposals that violate these regulations in an attempt to squeeze in more information antagonize reviewers and may be returned without consideration.
All proposals must be submitted electronically via Fastlane.