The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards
Supports Ph.D. candidates worldwide finishing dissertations on the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, with priority for projects addressing urgent, real-world issues.
Funder: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): February 2027: LOI deadline (projected) | March 2027: Full application deadline (projected) | March 2027: Advisor's letter upload deadline (projected)
Funding Amounts: $25,000 for one year to support dissertation completion during the final year of Ph.D. studies.
Summary: Supports doctoral candidates worldwide in the final year of dissertation writing on the causes, manifestations, and control of violence.
Key Information: For Ph.D. candidates who have completed research and are writing; not for doctoral research support.
Description
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards provide funding to promising researchers in the final year of writing a doctoral dissertation that examines significant aspects of violence. The Foundation welcomes proposals from any natural or social science discipline and allied fields that seek to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research addressing urgent, present-day issues such as war, crime, terrorism, family and intimate-partner violence, climate instability, resource competition, and various forms of conflict and extremism. Projects should ideally demonstrate relevance to policy interventions intended to reduce violence. Historical research is considered if it informs current issues, and studies on the effects of violence are welcome when they help explain future violence.
