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Deadline: February 1, 2022
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.
The Foundation welcomes proposals from any natural and social sciences or allied disciplines that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. The highest priority is research addressing urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.
The Foundation is interested in violence related to many subjects, including, but not limited to, the following:
- War
- Crime
- Terrorism
- Family and intimate partner relationships
- Climate instability and natural resource competition
- Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict
- Political extremism and nationalism
The Foundation supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence. Still, primacy is given to proposals that make a compelling case for the relevance of potential findings for policies intended to reduce these ills. Likewise, historical research is considered to the extent that it is relevant to a current violent situation. Examinations of the effects of violence are welcome insofar as a strong case is made that these outcomes serve, in turn, as causes of future violence.
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The award is $25,000 for one year. It contributes to the support of a doctoral candidate to enable the completion of a dissertation that advances the Foundation’s research interests described above promptly. They are available only to students for support during the final year of PhD studies.
The award does not support doctoral research. Applicants may be citizens of any country and studying at colleges or universities in any country.
Eligibility Criteria
To be considered for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards 2022/23, applicants must meet the following conditions:
- Must be a PhD candidate entering the dissertation stage of graduate study. Usually, this means that fieldwork or other research is complete and writing has begun or will at the beginning of the award period. Suppose analysis and writing are not far enough for an applicant to be confident that the dissertation will be completed within the award year. In that case, an application should not be submitted. In some disciplines, particularly experimental fields, research and writing can reasonably be expected to be completed within the same year, and in those cases, it is appropriate to apply.
Application Procedure
Candidates for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards may apply online annually between November 1 and February 1. Applicants must create an account to access the application and guidelines. The guidelines are also available.
Application Registration Deadline: 1st February 2023
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