Dissertation Research Award supports Ph.D. researchers with funding for dissertation work on any topic in rural sociology, helping advance the field and develop future rural sociologists.
Early Career Research Award supports early-career Rural Sociological Society members with small-scale rural sociology research that advances their academic careers and contributes to the Society’s mission.
Lawrence Busch Award for Graduate Student Research on Food and Agriculture supports graduate students’ research on social dimensions of food and agriculture to foster scholarly development.
Student Travel Grant - Rural Sociological Society supports graduate and undergraduate students’ travel to the RSS Annual Meeting so they can present papers or posters or join panels and workshops.
The Grad Student Research Awards from the American Ethnological Society fund early-stage PhD students for exploratory ethnographic or documentary research in anthropology.