Social Science Grants

Deadline: 12/01/2020

Aim and Mission: To support emerging scholars through small grants;
– To promote scholarship with a social policy application; and
– To encourage projects that address contemporary issues in the social sciences.

Special Award recipients receive an additional $1,500, unless otherwise noted:
– Donald R. Cressey Award: Criminal Justice and Penology Practices
– Eli Ginzberg Award: Health and Welfare, particularly in urban settings
– Harold D. Lasswell Award: International Relations and Foreign Affairs
– Irving Louis Horowitz Award: Overall most outstanding project (This award carries with it an additional $5,000.)
– John L. Stanley Award: History and Ethics
– Joshua Feigenbaum Award: Arts, Popular Culture, and Mass Communication
– Martinus Nijhoff Award: Science, Technology, and Medicine
– Robert K. Merton Award: Addresses the relationship between Social Theory and Public Policy
– Trustees’ Award: For the most innovative approach in theory and/or methodology (This award carries with it an additional $3,000.)

Duration

Awarded every year, recipients have 5 years to complete project.

Funding

Upper $12,500USD Lower $7,500USD

Each is worth a total of $7,500; $5,000 is awarded initially and $2,500 upon completion of the project.

Grants are non-renewable and recipients have five years from announcement of the award to complete their project and claim their final payment.

Eligibility

Applicants must be current PhD (or DrPH) candidates who are working on their dissertation;
– Applicants must not have a PhD; those who do, are ineligible;
– Applicants must have defended their dissertation proposal or had their topic approved by their department;
– Applicants can be from any country and any university in the world. US citizenship or residency is not required.

Website

Contact

The Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
Phone: (732) 445-2280
[email protected]