Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards 2025 (up to $25,000) – YOA

Deadline: February 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards 2025. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards (previously the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships) acknowledge promising researchers of their ultimate yr of writing a doctoral dissertation inspecting a salient facet of violence.

The Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the pure and social sciences or allied disciplines that promise to enhance understanding of the causes, manifestations, and management of violence and aggression. Highest precedence is given to analysis that addresses pressing, current-day issues of violence—what produces it, the way it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.

Areas of Interest

The Foundation is taken with violence associated to many topics, together with, however not restricted to, the next:

• War
• Crime
• Terrorism
• Family and intimate-accomplice relationships
• Climate instability and pure useful resource competitors
• Racial, ethnic, and spiritual battle
• Political extremism and nationalism

The Foundation helps analysis that investigates the fundamental mechanisms within the manufacturing of violence, however primacy is given to proposals that make a compelling case for the relevance of potential findings for insurance policies meant to cut back these ills. Likewise, historic analysis is taken into account to the extent that it’s related to a present scenario of violence. Examinations of the consequences of violence are welcome insofar as a powerful case is made that these outcomes serve, in flip, as causes of future violence.

Award

• The award is $25,000 for one yr and contributes to the help of a doctoral candidate to allow the completion of a dissertation that advances the Foundation’s analysis pursuits described above in a well timed method. They can be found solely to college students for help throughout the ultimate yr of Ph.D. research.

Eligibility

• Applicants could also be residents of any nation and finding out at schools or universities in any nation. 
• Applicants for an award have to be Ph.D. candidates getting into the dissertation stage of graduate study. Usually, which means that fieldwork or different analysis is full and writing has begun or will in the beginning of the award interval. If evaluation and writing will not be far sufficient alongside for an applicant to be assured that the dissertation will probably be accomplished throughout the award yr, an application shouldn’t be submitted. In some disciplines, notably experimental fields, analysis and writing can moderately be anticipated to be accomplished throughout the identical yr, and in these instances, it’s applicable to apply.

Application

Candidates for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards might apply on-line yearly between November 1 and February 1. Applicants should create an account to entry the application and tips.

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For extra info, go to HFG Emerging Scholar Awards.