External Funding for Research and Internships
Name
The Language Fund
SSF and Paterson International
Internship Fund
Qualifications/Description
Awards up to $1,000 for language training/immersion programs abroad or US. Contact
[email protected] or call 303.871.3608 for more information.
Funding for unpaid, domestic or international internships. Contact [email protected] or
303.871.4490 for more information.
Funding for a GFTEI student to pursue unpaid internship domestic or abroad or an
internship with insufficient compensation that would not allow the student to accept the
internship. Contact [email protected] or 303.871.4490 for more information.
Funding for a GFTEI student for professional or academic conferences, intensitve language
Destiny Capital Corporation
study, independent research and similar projects. Contact [email protected] or call
Learning Enhancement Initiatives
303.871.3608 for more information.
Destiny Capital Corporation
Internship Fund
Conference Funding
Research Assistantships
Institute for Humane Studies-Hayek Fund for Scholars
Funding to deliver a paper at a conference. Up to $750 for domestic conferences and
$1,500 for international conferences. Deadlines December 1, April 1, June 1. Contact
[email protected] or call 303.871.2544 for more information.
Part-time academic employment assisting faculty member with research based on need
and student expertise. Availability discussed during fall orientation, most openings at
beginning of school year. Contact [email protected] or 303.871.3608 for more information.
Graduate students intending to pursue academic careers and untenured faculty members
whose academic work contributes to the understanding of the principles, practices, and
institutions necessary to a free society or to the understanding of the classical liberal or
libertarian tradition. Up to $1,000 for career-advancing activities with year-round, rolling
applications.
Fulbright Program for Foreign
Students
Programs and funding varies by country, see website.
Funding for non-profit organizations and individuals involved in activities that enhance
the mechanisms for advancing knowledge and practive of conflict prevention and
US Institute of Peace Priority
peacebuilding in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Sudan. Amount based on proposed
Grant Competition
budget, applications accepted year round.
Funding for women students from developing countries who are currently studying in the
Margart McNamara Memorial
US or Canada, whose graduate studies and future plans aim to benefit women and
Fund
children in their respective regions
Funding for individual Latino(a) students who are participating in political science-related
APSA Fund for Latino Scholarship programs and activities. Provides support for travel and institutional proposals for student
recruitment and retention.
The Barakat Trust Grant
Funding fo graduate Muslim scholars who are administering research trips, projects,
documentation, education programmes, exhibitions and publications.
OAS Professional Development
Scholarship
German Academic Exchange
Service--DAAD
International Fellowship for
Prospective Leaders--German
Chancellor Fellowship
Environment Fellowship
Fulbright US Scholar Programs
Citizens or permanent residents of OAS member states who are undertaking professional
development courses aimed to expand or refresh participants' professoinal expertise in
areas of specialization related to the priority development areas of the OAS as outlined in
the Inter-American Council for Integral Development.
Various grants for study and/or research
Awarded to young professionals in private, public, non-profit, cultural and academic
sectors. Includes 1 year stay in Germany for study, research or professional development
with 2-3,000 euro monthly stipend and allowances.
Funding for research concerning environmental public policy or environmental conflict
resolution. Contact Jane Curlin at [email protected] for more information.
The core Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad each
year. Grantees lecture and conduct research in a wide variety of academic and
professional fields.
National Center for Environmental
Search for various environmental research grants.
Research
Often characterized as "midcareer" awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for
John Simon Guggenheim
men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive
Memorial Foundation Fellowship
scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.
National Institute of Food and
Search for various grants for agricultural research.
Agriculture
National Endowment for the
Search for various grants for humanities-based research.
Humanities
Dept of Health and Human
Services--National Institute of
Search for various health related research grants.
Health
A-Z list for science research grants
National Science Foundation
SSRC fellowship and grants fund research that advances knowledge about non-U.S.
cultures and societies and engages themes ranging from global issues facing the U.S. and
Social Science Research Council
Japan, to security, drugs and democracy in Latin America
Institute of Peace--Jennings
Randolph Peace Scholarship
Dissertation Program
The Jennings Randolph (JR) Program for International Peace awards nonresidential Peace
Scholar Dissertation Scholarships to students at U.S. universities who are writing doctoral
dissertations on topics related to peace, conflict, and international security.