FIG organizes Grant Writing Workshops where students can present their grant applications and receive feed-back from students and affiliated faculty. For information about the next workshop, check our Calendar. FIG also keeps on file (in the office, 2-375 Kresge) copies of successful grant applications in various fields and for vari ous granting agencies.

FIG provides travel and short term research grants, including grants for language acquisition. To apply, fill out an Application Form and send it by campus mail to FIG's co-directors. Deadline for applications is March 30, 2006. Please note that FIG grants are given out not only to support individual research but to encourage students to contribute to FIG activities. Please contact Graduate Affiliates co-chairs with any ideas for student activities.

Northwestern Grants

Dissertation Year Fellowships are awarded by the Graduate School to advanced students in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Students need to be nominated for DYF by their department. For further information contact your DGS.

Graduate Research Grants are awarded by the Graduate School to cover travel and research expenses of no more than $1500. Students must complete 3 quarters of residency before receiving a GRG. Applications are accepted 3 times a year with deadlines of October 10, January 10, and April 10. For more information go to: www.northwestern.edu/graduate

For information about the Fulbright US Student Program for Graduate Study or Research Abroad contact Mary Pat Doyle at the Graduate School, mdoyle@northwestern.edu

For other funding opportunities check:
www.northwestern.edu/graduate/financial-aid/fundingannounce.htm

The Center for International and Comparative Studies has limited funding available to support graduate students' research abroad (up to $1,000) and conference travel to give papers (up to $300). Interested students should submit a written request, including a budget and one recommendation from a faculty member, to Brian Hanson, associate director. The deadline for international summer research grants is January 15, 2006. Requests for conference travel are accepted anytime. For more information go to www.cics.northwestern.edu/

For information about fellowships for the Paris Program in Critical Theory, the dual PdD program with Sciences Po, and the exchange programs with ENS, see Research and Study in France.



Outside Grants

The French Embassy in the United States offers Chateaubriand fellowships both in the Humanities and Social Sciences and in the Sciences.

Humanities and Social Sciences: Ph.D. students in the areas of French literature, cinema, art history, history, philosophy, political science, anthropology, musicology, classics, and sociology may apply. Applicants have to be enrolled in an American institution; for the grant year they have to be associated with a French research institution (which may be a university, a library, a museum, etc). Applications can be submitted in either French or English. For more information go to www.frenchculture.org or email chateaubriand@frenchculture.org

Sciences: Ph.D. students and graduates can apply for a Chateaubriand to conduct research in a French laboratory (private or public) for a 6 to 12 months' period. Students must obtain an agreement from a hosting laboratory before applying for the fellowship. For more information go to www.chateaubriand.amb-wash.fr

The Société des professeurs français et francophones d'Amérique (SPFFA) offers the Jean et Marie-Louise Dufrenoy Fellowship in the Sciences and the Jeanne Marandon Scholarship in all disciplines (with priority given to applicants in literature, art, music, history, social sciences, and communication). Applicants for both scholarships must be US citizens. Application deadline is December 1, 2006. For further information about the Dufrenoy Fellowship write to:

SPFFA, Bourse Dufrenoy
P.O. Box 6641
Yorkville Finance Station
New York, NY 10128

For infomration on the Marandon fellowship, write to:

SPFFA Bourses Marandon
c/o Dr. Charles Hill,
115 East 9th Street, #10 L,
New York, NY 10003

The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France, is a residential center for scholars pursuing studies in the humanities and social sciences related to French and francophone cultures as well as for composers, writers, and visual artists (painters, sculptors, photographers, filmmakers, video artists, and new media artists) pursuing creative projects. Graduate students who have met all degree requirements except for the dissertation and for whom a stay in France would be beneficial for completing their dissertation are eligible. Residencies are one semester (either early-September to mid-December or mid-January to the end of May) and are accompanied by a stipend of $3,500. The Foundation’s campus includes thirteen furnished apartments, a reference library, and three art/music studios.

Applicants from all countries are welcome to apply. The application deadline is January 12 for either semester of the following academic year.

For more information and to apply, please consult our website at www.camargofoundation.org or write to apply@camargofoundation.org.


The Florence Gould Foundation offers pre-dissertation fellowships for research in France. Eligible are graduate students who are US citizens or permanent residents working in the areas of: cultural anthropology, history (post 1750), political science, sociology, geography, urban and regional planning. For more information consult their website at
www.europanet.org/ces/ces_florence_gould.htm

The Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship for the study of French language and literature. Candidates must be unmarried women between 25 and 35 years of age who have demonstrated their ability to carry on original research. They must hold the docotrate or have fulfilled all the requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation, and they must be planning to devote full-time work to research during the fellowship year that begins September 1st. Application forms and further information may be obtained from:

The Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship Committee
The Phi Beta Kappa Society
1785 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (202) 265-3808
Email: ccurtis@pbk.org

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs launched a new scholarship program, called the Eiffel scholarship program, to offer training in France for future public- and private-sector decision makers in three priority areas, engineering, economics and management, and law and political science. The program assigns priority to students from emerging countries, but accepts students from developed countries. The program was extended in 2005 to students who wished to pursue doctoral studies at a French university. It applies to students pursuing joint or co-tutelle doctorates. See http://www.egide.asso.fr/fr/programmes/eiffel/, and, for PhD scholarships, http://www.egide.asso.fr/uk/programmes/eiffeldoct/.

Fulbright Research Grant to École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Graduating seniors and graduate students are eligible. Eligible fields: sciences, social sciences, humanities, management, and technology. Note that ENS Cachan focuses primarily on science and technology, but some social sciences are represented. See www.ens-cachan.fr/. Applicants must contact the department head or laboratory director in their field, present their project, and obtain affiliation. Then the applicant must finalize affiliation by contacting the Director of International Affairs at ENS-Cachan, at sri@ens-cachan.fr. Proof of affiliation must be submitted with the Fulbright application. See www.iie.org. The application must be approved by both ENS-Cachan and Fulbright.

Other programs and financial support that allow American students to study in France include “Youth and Sports Grants,” and “Scholarship in French Cinema. See www.frenchculture.org. Students should also consult the web site of the Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange at www.fulbright-France.com.