HFG Emerging Scholar Awards Grant

HFG Emerging Scholar Awards Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Amount: Up to US $25,000
Last Updated: December 09, 2025

Summary

The HFG Emerging Scholar Awards provide $25,000 for one year to support Ph.D. candidates in completing their dissertations on violence and aggression. The Foundation prioritizes research that addresses urgent issues such as war, crime, and terrorism, aiming to enhance understanding and inform policies for prevention. Applicants must be in the dissertation stage and demonstrate that their work contributes to the Foundation's goals. This funding opportunity is open to candidates worldwide.

Overview

HFG Emerging Scholar Awards The Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences or allied 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. The Foundation is interested 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, ethnic, and religious conflict Political extremism and nationalism 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. Likewise, historical research is considered to the extent that it is relevant to a current situation of violence. Examinations of the effects of violence are welcome insofar as a strong case is made that these outcomes serve, in turn, as causes of future violence. The Emerging Scholar Awards The award is $25,000 for one year and contributes to the support of a doctoral candidate to enable the completion of a dissertation that advances the Foundation’s research interests described above in a timely manner.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. 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.They are available only to students for support during the final year of Ph.D. studies.Applicants may be citizens of any country and studying at colleges or universities in any country.

Ineligibility

The award does not support doctoral research.