American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Deadline November
The purpose of the American Dissertation Fellowship is to offset a scholar’s living expenses while she completes her dissertation. The fellowship must be used for the final year of writing the dissertation.
Applications must be received by May
Eligibility
They must be from one of the following populations: African American, Hispanic American, or Native American.
They must be a U.S. citizen or a permanent U.S. resident.
They must be enrolled, on campus, in a full-time AACSB accredited marketing doctoral program, or an advertising doctoral program, and have successfully completed at least one year.
Deadline: June
Scholarships of $5,000 USD
Scholarship Fund aids people active in movements for social and economic justice. These need-based scholarships are awarded to students who are able to do academic work at the college or university level or are enrolled in a trade or technical program and who are active in the progressive movement. Early recipients worked for civil rights, against McCarthyism and for peace in Vietnam. Recent grantees have been active in the struggle against racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of oppression; building the movement for economic justice; and creating peace through international anti-imperialist solidarity.
The maximum grant available is $15,000 per year.
Deadline: April
will award $1,000 to a student who, in the fall of the year of the award, will be engaged in the research or writing stage of a Master's Thesis or Ph.D Dissertation in the interdisciplinary field of women's studies. The research project must enhance the mission of NWSA.
Deadline: July 1 (including a letter of recommendation)
Applicants must be an individual member of NWSA no later than July 1.
The scholarship application cycle is open. Scholarships are a benefit for active paid members. Our online scholarship applications consist of short answers, an essay on the scholarship’s prompt, unofficial transcripts, and a letter of reference. Scholarship award money helps advance the recipients’ studies and/or teaching careers. Tuition/student loans, curriculum books, technology, classroom manipulatives, and items to establish your first learning environment are examples of acceptable uses. Scholarship money will be awarded directly to the recipient.
The Mariam K. Chamberlain Dissertation Award creates an opportunity for a first-generation doctoral student, including immigrant students, to continue working on a dissertation under the close supervision of a senior dissertation advisor over an academic year.
Deadline: October
The DAR Centennial Scholarship is awarded to two outstanding students pursuing a course of graduate study in the field of historic preservation at a college or university in the United States. This is a one-time award in the amount of $2,500.
The scholarship application portal is open from November, through January 31.