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Association for Women in Science Predoctoral Awards Association for Women in Science Behavioral sciences Women expecting to graduate within 2 years of the application deadline $10,000 March https://www.awis.org/scholarships/
Babbitt Center Dissertation Fellowship Program Lincoln Institute of Land Policy  the integration of land and water policy to advance water sustainability and resilience, particularly in the West graduate students $10,000 March https://www.lincolninst.edu/research-data/research/babbitt-center-dissertation-fellowship-program
C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program Lincoln Institute of Land Policy land and tax policy graduate students $10,000 March https://www.lincolninst.edu/research-data/research/2021-c-lowell-harriss-dissertation-fellowship-program
Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants NSF increasing the understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations, and society graduate students up to $20,000 January/August https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423
Dissertation Fellowships American Association of University Women all fields of study women scholars, US citizens, permanent residents up to $30,000 November https://www.aauw.org/resources/programs/fellowships-grants/current-opportunities/american/
Dissertation Fellowships Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation  global security priorities UC graduate students $25,000 February https://igcc.ucsd.edu/funding/dissertation-fellowship-competition.html
Economics Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants NSF  processes and institutions of the U.S. economy and of the world system of which it is a part graduate students up to $20,000 January/August https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5437
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Ford Foundation research-based Ph.D. or Sc.D. programs  U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. permanent residents, Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level in the U.S. $27,000 annual stipend December http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/PGA_047958.htm
Graduate Research Fellowships NSF Social sciences, psychology, STEM education US citizens, have completed no more than one academic year of full-time graduate study $34,000 annual stipend, $12,000 cost of education allowance to institution October http://www.nsfgrfp.org/
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants NSF nature, causes, and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales graduate students up to $20,000 rolling https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20583/nsf20583.htm#budg_cst_shr_txt
Humane Studies Fellow Institute for Humane Studies classical liberal scholarship Be enrolled full time in a PhD program at any institution $15,000 numerous throughout the year https://theihs.org/funding-career-resources/humane-studies-fellowship/
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants NSF  innovative analytical and statistical methods and models graduate students up to $18,000 January/August https://nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19575/nsf19575.htm
Research Funding Land Economics Foundation applying land economics to human problems for a better future individuals, academic programs, non-profit organizations, and LAI chapters up to $20,000 rolling https://www.lai.org/research-priorities
Research Report Stipends IBM Center for the Business of Government public management research Individuals working in universities, nonprofit organizations, or journalism $20,000 June/October http://www.businessofgovernment.org/content/research-stipends
Science and Technology Studies Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants NSF research that uses historical, philosophical, and social scientific methods to investigate the intellectual, material, and social facets of the scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical (STEM) disciplines graduate students up to $12,500 August https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19610/nsf19610.htm
Science of Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants NSF understand the scientific research enterprise and increase the public value of scientific activity graduate students up to $20,000 February/September https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19611/nsf19611.htm
Switzer Fellowships Switzer Foundation environmental improvement graduate students $15,000 January https://www.switzernetwork.org/become-fellow
The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) Smithsonian Institute environmental science, anthropology, history of science and technology, social and cultural history of the US graduate students $40,000 stipend and up to $4,000 research allowance November https://www.smithsonianofi.com/fellowship-opportunities/smithsonian-institution-fellowship-program/