Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards 2023 (up to $25,000)
Deadline: 1st of February, 2023
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards for 2023 are now accepting applications. The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards honor bright graduate students who are writing their PhD dissertations on important topics in violence.
The Foundation is open to applications from any field within the scientific, social, or allied sciences that will further knowledge of the origins, consequences, and management of violence and aggression.
The study of violence, including what causes it, how it functions, and methods for preventing or reducing it, is given top importance.
Areas of Interest:
The Foundation is interested in violence related to many subjects, including, but not limited to, the
following:
- War
- Crime
- Terrorism
- Family and intimate-partner relationships
- Climate instability and natural resource competition
- Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict
- Political extremism and nationalism
The Foundation supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence,
but primacy is given to proposals that make a compelling case for the relevance of potential findings for
policies intended to reduce these ills. Likewise, historical research is considered to the extent that it is
relevant to a current situation of violence. Examinations of the effects of violence are welcome insofar as
a strong case is made that these outcomes serve, in turn, as causes of future violence.
Awards:
The award is $25,000 for one year and contributes to the support of a doctoral candidate to
enable the completion of a dissertation that advances the Foundation’s research interests
described above in a timely manner. They are available only to students for support during
the final year of Ph.D. studies. The award does not support doctoral research.
Eligibility:
Applicants may be citizens of any country and studying at colleges or universities in any
country.
Applicants for an award must be Ph.D candidates entering the dissertation stage of graduate
study. Usually, this means that fieldwork or other research is complete and writing has
begun or will at the beginning of the award period.
If analysis and writing are not far enough along for an applicant to be confident that the
dissertation will be completed within the award year, an application should not be
submitted. In some disciplines, particularly experimental fields, research and writing can
reasonably be expected to be completed within the same year, and in those cases, it is
appropriate to apply.
Application:
Applications for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards are open online annually
between November 1 and February 1. Applicants must create an account to access the application and
guidelines.
