Research funding
Graduate student
1,500+ open programsCatalog updated
Graduate funding is a volume game. There are more open programs for graduate and doctoral students than for any other career stage in this catalog, and the median award is $3,000. These are not salary. They pay for fieldwork, travel to an archive or a field site, conference attendance, equipment and the specific unfunded line that stalls a dissertation.
Because the awards are small the arithmetic is different. Writing four applications at $3,000 each is a reasonable use of a month when one lands, and a society award restricted to student members can attract a handful of applicants.
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The funders are almost entirely disciplinary societies: the Archaeological Institute of America, the Entomological Society of America, the Society for Applied Anthropology, Psi Chi. The Garden Club of America funds more graduate research in botany than its name suggests. Most require membership, and student membership is usually cheap enough that joining to apply is rational.
Travel awards deserve singling out. They are the most winnable and the most overlooked, and the deadline is often only weeks before the meeting.
Open programs 1,500+
AIST Foundation Steel Intern Scholarships
The AIST Foundation, affiliated with the Association for Iron & Steel Technology, offers Steel Intern Scholarships for the 2027–2028 academic year to support students pursuing careers in the iron and steel industry through a qualifying summer internship and scholarship funding.
- Deadline
- Amount
- Not listed
Steel Intern Scholarships (AIST Foundation)
The Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) Foundation’s Steel Intern Scholarship program awards up to 50 one‑year scholarships of US$7,500 (US$4,500 NHIC) and a US$12,000 Premier Scholarship to the top applicant, each preceded by a required paid summer internship at a North American steel-producing or steel-related company.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $12,000
World Politics & Statecraft Fellowship
Smith Richardson Foundation’s World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship awards up to twenty $10,000 grants annually to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history, funding field work, archival research, and language training.
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- Amount
- $10,000
These are the soonest deadlines of 1,500+ open programs. FundFit holds every one, screens it against the researchers at your institution, and names who should apply.
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