Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards
Forecasted
Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards support doctoral candidates completing dissertations on the causes, manifestations, and control of violence to inform efforts to prevent or reduce it.
Funder: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): February 2027 (LOI) | March 2027 (Full application) | March 2027 (Advisor’s letter)
Funding Amounts: $25,000 for one year
Summary: Supports doctoral candidates completing dissertations on the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression.
Key Information: Only for the final year of Ph.D. studies and dissertation completion, not doctoral research.
Description
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s Emerging Scholar Awards support promising researchers completing doctoral dissertations on significant aspects of violence. The program welcomes work in the natural and social sciences and allied disciplines, prioritizing urgent, present-day questions about what produces violence, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.
Topics include war, crime, terrorism, family and intimate-partner violence, climate instability and natural resource competition, racial, ethnic, and religious conflict, and political extremism and nationalism. The Foundation supports investigation of basic mechanisms but gives priority to findings relevant to policies that reduce violence. Historical studies must demonstrate contemporary relevance. Studies of violence’s effects must explain how those consequences could cause future violence.
