Fellowships for which some international graduate students are eligible
1. All Social Science Research Council fellowships (http://www.ssrc.org)
 Offers international dissertation research grant, dissertation topic development
fellowship, and others
2. American Institute of Indian Research Fellowships
(www.indiastudies.org/fellow.htm)
 Lets you conduct dissertation research in India
3. UC fellowships (note: most UC fellowships carry no citizenship restrictions)
a. UC Research Expeditions Program for Field Research
(www.extension.ucdavis.edu/urep/index.asp)
 May have been discontinued
b. Natural Reserve System (NRS), Mildred E. Mathias Graduate Student
Research Grant (http://nrs.ucop.edu/grants/mathias/index.htm)
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For independent and field science studies at NRS reserves
c. Pacific Rim Research Program (www.ucop.edu/research/pacrim/)
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Funds master’s or dissertation research abroad
d. Humanities Research Institute Fellowships (www.uchri.org/)
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Dissertation award in the humanities and medicine, travel grants, and more
e. Tobacco-Related Disease-Research Program (www.trdrp.org)
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Dissertation funding
f. Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Graduate Fellowships
(www.igcc.ucsd.edu)
 Various dissertation fellowships
g. Linguistic Minority Research Institute Dissertation Grants (lmri.ucsb.edu/)
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May have been discontinued
h. Institute for Research in the Arts awards (www.ucira.ucsb.edu/)
i. Center for Nanotechnology in Society Graduate Research in the Humanities
and Social Sciences (www.cns.ucsb.edu/about-cns-ucsb/)
j. UC MEXUS Doctoral Dissertation Grants (ucmexus.ucr.edu/)
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For research related to the UC and Mexico
Also provide small research grants
k. University-wide AIDS Research Program
(http://www.californiaaidsresearch.org/)
l. UC ACCORD Dissertation Fellowships
(http://ucaccord.gseis.ucla.edu/fellowships-grants)
4. Asian Cultural Council Programs
(http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/?page_id=20)
 Grants to pursue creative activities in Asia
5. Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowships for exploring the problems of violence
and aggression in the modern world (www.hfg.org/rg/application.htm)
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Post-doctoral and dissertation fellowships
6. Population Council, Social Science Fellowship Program
(www.popcouncil.org/slr/fellowships.html)
 Post-doctoral fellowships for those from developing nations
7. Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund (http://www.aspeninstitute.org/)
8. American Statistical Association, ASA/NSF Research Fellowships
(www.amstat.org/research_grants/index.cfm?fuseaction=main_
 Dissertation research and other small grants in various subject areas
9. Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies
(www.woodrow.org/womens-studies)
10. TIAA-CREF Ruth Wilson Fellowship on the African Diaspora (www.tiaacrefinstitute.org)
 May have been discontinued
11. All Getty grants (http://www.getty.edu/grants/)
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Research grants in the history of art, education and professional development
grants in visual art
12. National Estuarine Research Reserve System, Graduate Research Fellowship
Program (www.nerrs.noaa.gov/Fellowship/)
13. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (www.wennergren.org)
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Predoctoral, dissertation, and post-doctoral fellowships in anthropology
14. Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education
(www.spencer.org)
 Spencer also offers post-doctoral awards
15. Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
(www.woodrow.org/newcombe)
 For “original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the
humanities and social sciences”
16. NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (www.nsf.gov)
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Prestigious awards in both the natural and social sciences
17. American Association for University Women International Fellowships
(www.aauw.org)
 For women who are not US citizens or permanent residents and who show
“demonstrated commitment to women and girls”
18. The Brookings Institution Research Fellowship (http://www.brookings.edu/)
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Fellowships in foreign policy and other areas
19. Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship in the Arts (www.faa.uiuc.edu/)
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For advanced study in the fine arts
20. American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowships (www.americanheart.org)
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Can include public health / behavioral research
21. American Musicological Society Alvin H. Johnson and Howard Mayer Brown
AMS Fellowships (http://www.ams-net.org/fellowships/ams50.php)
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Johnson awards dissertation-year fellowships
Emphasis on musical scholarship
Brown is for earlier in graduate career
Promotes the “presence of minority scholars and teachers in musicology”
22. All Smithsonian Institution Fellowships (http://si.edu/ofg/)
23. Association for Institutional Research (AIR), NCES/NSF Grant Program
Dissertation Fellowships
(http://www.airweb.org/GrantsAndScholarships/Pages/DissertationGrants.aspx)
24. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Doctoral Fellowships
(http://www.aei.org/research/nri/projectID.22/default.asp)
 May have been discontinued
25. All Medieval Academy of America Grants and Fellowships
(www.medievalacademy.org/gradstudents/gradstudent_grants.htm)
 Many different awards
26. Google Anita Borg Scholarship (www.google.com/anitaborg/)
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For women in technology
27. NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (nspires.nasaprs.com)
28. Department of Transportation Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship
Program (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/tpp/2012_grad_app.htm)
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Funding to pursue master’s or doctoral degrees in transportation-related fields
Must plan to enter transportation field after degree
29. Leakey Foundation, Franklin Mosher Baldwin Fellowships for citizens of
developing countries (www.leakeyfoundation.org)
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For MA or PhD
Prehistory and paleoanthropology
30. California Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship (http://wwwcsgc.ucsd.edu/EDUCATION/SeaGrantFellows.html)
 National policy affecting marine/ocean/Great Lakes resources
 Other California Sea Grant fellowships are also available
31. Space Telescope Science Institute Graduate Student Research Assistantships
(www.stsci.edu/institute/sd/students/gradstudent.html)
32. American Geophysical Union Horton Research Grant
(http://hydrology.agu.org/#five)
 Research projects in hydrology and water resources
33. Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy research grants (http://horowitzfoundation.org/grant-info.html)
 Social sciences
34. Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
(http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewisandclark)
 For doctoral students
 “Encourages exploratory field studies for the collection of specimens and data and
to provide the imaginative stimulus that accompanies direct observation”
 Post-docs and doctoral students eligible for separate award specific to
astrobiology