The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards

• Applicants for an award may be citizens of any country and studying at colleges or universities in any country.
• While almost all recipients of these awards possess a Ph.D., M.D., J.D., or equivalent degree, there are no formal degree requirements for the award.
• Applicants need not be affiliated with an institution of higher learning, although most are college or university professors.

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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Candidates may apply online annually between May 1 and August 1; decisions are made in December.

• 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