Ford Foundation Predoctoral, Dissertation, and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs for Achieving Diversity and Excellence in College, University Teaching - deadlines in mid-December

Sponsor Deadline: 

Dec 17, 2019

Sponsor: 

Ford Foundation, National Research Council of The National Academies

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Through its Fellowship Programs, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

 Predoctoral, Dissertation, and Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a national competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation.    http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/

Awards will be made for study in research-based Ph.D. or Sc.D. programs. Examples include the following major disciplines and related interdisciplinary fields: American studies, anthropology, archaeology, art and theater history, astronomy, chemistry, communications, computer science, cultural studies, earth sciences, economics, education, engineering, ethnic studies, ethnomusicology, geography, history, international relations, language, life sciences, linguistics, literature, mathematics, performance study, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religious studies, sociology, urban planning, and women’s studies. Also eligible are interdisciplinary ethnic studies programs, such as African American studies and Native American studies, and other interdisciplinary programs, such as area studies, peace studies, and social justice. Research-based fields of education are eligible if the major field of study is listed above and is used to describe the Ph.D. or Sc.D. program of the applicant (e.g., sociology of education, anthropology and education).

2020 Dissertation and Postdoctoral application deadlines:   December 10, 2019
2020 Predoctoral application deadline:  December 17, 2019

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