The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards

Applicants for an award must be Ph.D. candidates entering the dissertation stage of graduate study. Usually, this means that fieldwork or other research is complete and writing has begun or will at the beginning of the award period. If analysis and writing are not far enough along for an applicant to be confident that the dissertation will be completed within the award year, an application should not be submitted. In some disciplines, particularly experimental fields, research and writing can reasonably be expected to be completed within the same year, and in those cases, it is appropriate to apply.

Purposes: The Foundation supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence, but primacy is given to proposals that make a compelling case for the relevance of potential findings for policies intended to reduce these ills.

Programmes: PhD-studies in violence related to many subjects, including, but not limited to, the following: war, crime, terrorism, family and intimate-partner relationships, climate instability and natural resource competition, racial and ethnic and religious conflict, political extremism and nationalism

• Most awards fall within the range of USD 15,000 to USD 45,000 per year for periods of one or two years.
• Applications for larger amounts and longer durations will be considered but must be strongly justified.
• The awards are made to individuals (or sometimes two or, rarely, three principal investigators) for specific projects, not general research support.
• They are not awarded to institutions for institutional programs. Individuals who receive research grants may be subject to taxation on the funds awarded.
• The award may not be used to support research undertaken as part of the requirements for a graduate degree.

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Applications for the awards open annually on January 1 and must be received by February 1 the following year for a decision in June. Final decisions are made by the HFG Board of Directors at its meeting in June. Applicants will be informed promptly by email of the Board’s decision. Awards ordinarily commence on September 1, but other starting dates (after July 1) may be requested if the nature of the project deems this appropriate.

• The Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and aligned disciplines that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.
• Application guidelines