Internal Funding Sources

External Funding Sources

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Council of Learned Societies
American Educational Research Association
American Sociological Association
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
International Sociological Association
National Institute of Mental Health
National Science Foundation, Overview of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Pacific Sociological Association
Population Council
Russel Sage Foundation
Social Science Research Council

Specific Programs

• Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Science-Residential Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
• Post-Doctoral Fellowships for Research on Family Violence and Sexual Abuse
• Research Grants
• Russell Sage Foundation--Research Grants
• SAR-Weatherhead Fellowships
• SBE-SES-Sociology
• Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship in Education Policy
• Spencer Foundation Grants Program
• Teaching Enhancement Fund-Small Grants Program
• Wolinsky Family General Grants

Sponsor:Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences
Deadline: Open

Objectives:
The sponsor provides support for residential postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. The sponsor supports endeavors related to increasing knowledge of the principles that govern human behavior. These fields include, but are not limited to, anthropology, art history, biology, classics, economics, education, geography, history, law, linguistics, literature, mathematical and statistical specialties, medicine, musicology, philosophy, political science, psychiatry, psychology, and sociology.

Eligibility:
Eligible candidates are postdoctoral scientists and scholars from the United States and abroad who show exceptional accomplishment or promise in their respective fields. Self-nominations are accepted from post-doctoral scholars who have a record of publication.

Sponsor: American Sociological Association
Deadline(s): December 15 and June 15, annually

Objectives:
The awards provide scholars with venture capital for innovative research that has the potential for challenging the discipline, stimulating new lines of research, and creating new networks of scientific collaboration. The award is intended to provide opportunities for substantive and methodological breakthroughs, broaden the dissemination of scientific knowledge, and provide leverage for acquisition of additional research funds.

Eligibility:
Preference is given to applicants who have not previously received an award.

Sponsor:University of New Hampshire Family Research Laboratory
Deadline:N/A

Objectives:
The sponser awards fellowships for research on family violence. Positions are open to new and experienced researchers with doctorates in the fields of psychology, sociology, social work, law, nursing, public health and medicine. The fellowships are intended for work in the area of child abuse, marital violence, elder abuse, sexual abuse, child victimization, rape, homicide and other family-violence related topics with special attention to mental health impact. Scholars use the one-year fellowships(with possible one-year extension) to collaborate with Family Research Laboratory (FRL) faculty on a current project, to work on one of the many data sets archived at the FRL, or, in the case of senior candidates, to work on their own projects.

Eligibility:
Applications from scholars with backgrounds in developmental or cognitive psychology, or interests in family violence in minority families, or families of persons with disabilities are particularly encouraged. The individual to be trained must be a citizen or non-citizen national of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time of the award. A non-citizen national is a person who, although not a citizen of the United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States. They are generally persons born in outlying possessions of the United States (e.g., American Samoa and Swains Island). Individuals who have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence must be in possession of a valid Alien Registration Receipt Card (I-551), or must be in possession of other legal verification of such status (e.g., proper validation of his/her passport, or a notarized photocopy of properly validated passport could suffice).

Sponsor: Guggenheim (Harry Frank) Foundation
Deadline(s): August 1 annually

Objectives:
Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and lead to amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.

Particular areas of interest concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, drug trafficking and use, family relationships, and the control of aggression and violence.

Eligibility:
The sponsor awards grants to individuals for individual projects only. Priority is given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.

Sponsor:Sage (Russell) Foundation
Deadline(s): Open

Objectives:
Grants support scholars at other institutions to pursue research projects that advance the sponsor's interests. The sponsor's grants are restricted to support for basic social science research within the announced programs. These currently include research on the future of work, immigration, literacy and the social psychology of cultural contact.

Restrictions:
Proposals are reviewed throughout the year. However, all major proposals must be approved by the sponsor's Board of trustees, which meets at the end of February, June and October. Proposals must arrive at least eight weeks prior to a Board meeting in order to permit time for review. Grants generally average about $50,000 with a range running roughly from $10,000 to $200,000. The sponsor tends to provide support for analyzing data and writing up results more frequently than data acquisition. Indirect costs are allowed up to fifteen percent for grants over $35,000. No overhead is allowed on Presidential Authority grants. Awardees are generally expected to offer the sponsor the right to publish any book-length manuscript resulting from sponsor-supported research. A letter of inquiry is the preferred method of initial contact. Application guidelines are available.

Sponsor: School of American Research
Deadline(s):November 1 annually

Objectives:
In support of its focus on scholarship that is broad, synthetic, and interdisciplinary and promises to yield significant advances in understanding human culture, behavior, evolution, or critical contemporary issues, the sponsor offers two nine-month residential fellowships to pre- or postdoctoral scholars whose work is either humanistic or scientific in nature.

The sponsor makes awards to scholars who have completed their research and analysis and who need time to think and write about topics important to the understanding of humankind. Resident scholars may approach their research from the perspective of anthropology or from anthropologically informed perspectives in such fields as history, sociology, art, law, and philosophy. Both humanistically and scientifically oriented scholars are encouraged to apply.

Eligibility:
Pre- or postdoctoral candidates whose work is humanistic or scientific in nature are eligible. Applications are evaluated on the basis of the overall excellence and significance of the proposed project, clarity of presentation, and the applicant's academic accomplishments relative to subdiscipline and career stage. The applicant's research should promise to yield some significant advance in understanding human culture, behavior, history, or evolution.

Preference is given to applicants whose research and analysis are complete and who need time to prepare manuscripts. Projects that are narrowly focused geographically and theoretically or that are primarily methodological, seldom receive strong consideration. The fellowships are not intended as immediate postdoctoral positions, and dissertation rewrites are not encouraged.

Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Deadline(s): August 15 and January 15, annually

Objectives:
The sponsor supports research on problems of human social organization, demography, and processes of individual and institutional change. The Program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility, family, social networks, socialization, gender roles, and the sociology of science and technology.

In assessing the intrinsic merit of a proposed piece of research, four components are key to securing support from the Sociology Program:

(1) The issues investigated must be theoretically grounded.
(2) The research should be based on empirical observation or be subject to empirical validation.
(3) The research design must be appropriate to the questions asked. (4) The proposed research must advance our understanding of social processes or social structures.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are universities and colleges, nonprofit, non-academic organizations, for-profit organizations, state and local governments, and unaffiliated individuals.

Sponsor:Spencer Foundation
Deadline:Open

Objectives:
The sponsor's mission is to fund activities that, anywhere in the world, which foster new ideas in education and encourage creativity. The sponsor prefers to fund specific initiatives that conform to the mission statement.

Eligibility:
The sponsor funds activities from anywhere in the world.

Sponsor:RAND
Deadline: N/A

Objectives:
The sponser provides a fellowship to enable outstanding new scholars in education policy to sharpen their analytic skills, learn to communicate research results effectively, and advance their research agendas. The program blends formal and informal training and extensive collaboration with distinguished researchers in a variety of disciplines. Fellows will spend sixty percent of their time on an appropriate sponser Education project and forty percent of their time on their own research.

Eligibility:
Fellows must have completed a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline such as education, psychology, sociology, economics, statistics, anthropology, or political science within the last five years.

Sponsor:American Sociological Association
Deadline(s): February 2, 2009

Objectives:
These grants are intended to support projects that extend the quality of teaching in the United States and Canada. The principal criteria for the award are that the project is likely to: enhance the teaching of sociology in North America; serve as a seed-project that will continue to have and impact in months and years to come; and be systemic in its impact.

Eligibility:
Eligible applicants may be an individual, a department, a program, or a committee of a state/regional association. Individuals applying for the award must be members of ASA.

Sponsor:Wolinsky Family Foundation
Deadline:Open

Objectives:
The sponser will consider applications for support in all areas of need, including, but not limited to education, health and human services, arts and culture, social welfare, and community development. Special regard will be given to Jewish-related projects or organizations, but all worthy causes will be given due consideration.

Eligibility:
Applicants must have tax-exempt status.