Byron Hanke Fellowship
Byron Hanke Fellowship supports graduate students researching community association development, management, and governance to expand knowledge and understanding of residential common-interest communities.
Funder: Foundation for Community Association Research
Due Dates: May 1, 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $3,000–$5,000 over one year, or as determined by the Foundation
Summary: Supports graduate students conducting applied or theoretical research on the development, management, and governance of community associations and common-interest communities.
Key Information: Applicants must remain enrolled in an accredited graduate program in the United States or Canada throughout the research period.
Description
The Foundation for Community Association Research (FCAR) awards the annual Byron Hanke Fellowship to graduate students researching the development, management, and governance of common-interest communities and their community associations. Projects may be applied or theoretical and must be undertaken in conjunction with graduate studies. Research should expand existing theory, knowledge, or data collection and advance understanding of residential community associations.
The Foundation especially welcomes substantive social science papers that place community association housing within political or economic organizational models. Fellows use their research and analysis to produce an original, comprehensive paper or thesis available for copyright and publication by the Foundation. The work should be comparable in scale to a master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation, or law-review-quality article and benefit the Foundation and the community association industry.
