Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship
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Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship supports doctoral students’ child psychology research to advance knowledge and nurture careers in the field.
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Funder: American Psychological Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): November 2026 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: 5 fellowships of $20,800; published support covers the 2026–2027 academic year only
Summary: Supports doctoral students’ research in child psychology to advance knowledge and nurture careers in the field.
Key Information: Only one application per institution per year is accepted, and the home institution must provide tuition waiver or coverage.
Description
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) administers this fellowship to support graduate research projects and scholarships in child psychology. The program seeks to nurture excellent young scholars pursuing careers in child-clinical, pediatric, school and educational psychology, and developmental psychopathology. It supports scholarly work that advances knowledge in these areas, emphasizing the quality of proposed research, its incremental contribution, and the applicant’s demonstrated scholarship and research competence.
Supported research spans children’s development, learning, behavior and mental health. Recent projects have examined pathways to callous unemotional traits and disruptive behavior disorders, children’s beliefs about school, and assessment of developmental language disorder. Other funded work has addressed childhood anxiety, adaptive persistence, whole-child development, social support for youth in foster care, and adolescent sleep problems and suicide risk.
