The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) provides a free fellowship and scholarship bulletin for members and non-members to browse for sociology related opportunities. Please remember to contact each institution individually if you would like more information about a fellowship or scholarship listing. SSSP hopes you find this service valuable.


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The Smith Richardson Foundation’s Junior Faculty Grant Program awards one-year grants of $60,000 each to support untenured, full-time junior faculty engaged in research and writing of scholarly books.
 
The Smith Richardson Foundation seeks to promote the work of the next generation of public policy researchers and analysts. In 2008, the Foundation will award at least three research grants in the amount of $60,000 each to individuals who are interested in conducting research and writing on domestic public policy issues. Grantees are expected to produce a book or an article suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The grant can be used to cover salary costs of the researcher and to underwrite research costs, such as trave, research assistance, and data acquisition.
 
Preference will be given to proposals that address policy issues that have been priority for the Foundation’s Domestic Public Policy Program during the past three years: education and school reform; income support and anti-poverty policy; child and youth development; public finance; policies related to public entitlement programs, including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; urban and criminal justice policy; regulatory policy, including environmental policy; immigration policy; and the political process.
 
Fellowships will be awarded to individual researchers, not to research teams. An application must have received a Ph.D. after January 1, 2002. He or she must hold a position as a full-time faculty member at a college or university or as a full-time fellow at a public policy think tank or research organization in the United States. Proposals must be postmarked by June 30, 2008. Applicants will be notified by October 31, 2008, and grant funds will be available by November 15, 2008.
 
For more information, visit our web site at www.srf.org


The Smith Richardson Foundation’s announces its annual World Politics and Statecraft Dissertation Fellowship awards. The Foundation awards one-year grants of $7,500 each to up to twenty qualified Ph.D. candidates in relevant disciplines engaged in research on: (a) American Foreign Policy, (b) International Relations, (c) International Security, (d) Strategic Studies, (e)
Diplomatic and Military History.
 
The fellowship is intended to support the research and writing of dissertations that could directly inform U.S. policy debates and thinking, through the funding of field work, archival research, and language training. In evaluating applications, the Foundation will accord preference to those projects that could directly inform U.S. policy debates and thinking, rather than dissertations that are principally focused on abstract threory or debates within a scholarly discipline.
 
For further details on how to apply, visit http://www.srf.org/grants/world_politics.php
 
Applications may be submitted by e-mail to or a hard copy may be mailed to the Foundation no later than October 31, 2008. Applicants will be notified of the Foundation’s decision by January 31, 2009.