The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards
Supports final-year Ph.D. candidates completing dissertations on the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, with priority for policy-relevant and contemporary research.
Funder: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): February 2027: Letter of Interest (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; awarded to doctoral candidates in the final year of Ph.D. studies.
Summary: Supports doctoral candidates completing dissertations on urgent issues related to violence, prioritizing research with policy relevance.
Key Information: For dissertation writing only; not for doctoral research or fieldwork. Open to any nationality or institution.
Description
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards are designed to support promising doctoral candidates in their final year of dissertation writing on topics that examine significant aspects of violence. The foundation welcomes proposals from the natural and social sciences or allied disciplines that aim to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Priority is given to research addressing urgent, present-day problems, including war, crime, terrorism, family and intimate-partner violence, climate instability, resource competition, racial, ethnic, and religious conflict, political extremism, and nationalism. The foundation emphasizes policy-relevant research, and historical studies are considered if they are pertinent to current situations of violence.
