The following grants have been selected from the The Graduate Guide to Grants, an annual publication of the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in order to assist grantees who may need additional funding for research or thesis preparation. Click on the grant name to visit the organization's website for more information.

The Brookings Institution
The Institution offers the Resident Fellowships for policy-oriented pre-doctoral research in economics, foreign policy studies, and governmental studies.

John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships
Fellowships are offered to students who are engaged in research requiring the resources of the library. The John Carter Brown Library is a collection of primary materials relating to virtually all aspects of the discovery, exploration, and settlement of the New World.

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
The Center awards a number of one-, two-, and three-year fellowships to Ph.D. candidates for dissertation research work in the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, and urbanism. The various fellowships provide for research, travel, and in-residence research projects at the center.

Center for U.S.–Mexican Studies
Each year the Researchers-in-Residence Program brings together about 25 researchers from institutions in various countries representing all of the social science disciplines, history, and various interdisciplinary fields. Fellowships in the predoctoral category support the write-up stage of research on any aspect of contemporary Mexico (except literature and the arts), Mexican history, and U.S.-Mexican relations.

Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
The Lindbergh Foundation program sponsors approximately nine grants annually to researchers whose projects attempt to create a better balance between the advance of technology and the preservation of the natural/human environment. Preference is given to those researchers in the following areas: agriculture; aviation/aerospace; conservation of natural resources; education; exploration; health; and waste minimization and management.

The Link Foundation
The Energy Fellowship Program is designed to foster energy research by doctoral students, and to enhance and apply both theoretical and practical knowledge on energy issues. Doctoral students enrolled in an academic institution are awarded a $20,000 stipend for one year to help defray living, research, and publication costs.

The Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund for Women from Developing Countries
Women from developing countries are eligible to apply for this fund if: 1) they are enrolled in an accredited educational institution in the U.S. and are residing in the U.S. at the time the application is submitted and will be enrolled during the period the grant covers; 2) they have demonstrated their commitment to the problems and needs of women and/or children in their countries; 3) they plan to return to their countries approximately two years after using the grant; and 4) they need financial assistance to complete their course of study.

National Geographic Society
The society sponsors grants to support basic research in the sciences pertinent to geography as broadly interpreted, including projects that depend on exploration. Awards are normally made for field research. Particular emphasis is currently being placed on multidisciplinary projects of an environmental nature. These funds are usually awarded to postdoctoral researchers who possess a Ph.D.

National Science Foundation (Dissertation Research Awards)
Students from a variety of fields in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and engineering are eligible for support, as long as their dissertation research addresses science and ethics or science and decision making. Applicants must be doctoral students enrolled at a U.S. institution and entering the dissertation stage of their degree.

National Science Foundation (Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research)
Grants are awarded for support of doctoral dissertation research in the social, behavioral, biological and economic sciences. Grants are intended to provide funds for items not normally available from the student's university or other sources, e.g. travel to specialized facilities or field research locations, sample survey costs, specialized research equipment, supplies, microfilms, or other forms of unique data.

Organization for Tropical Studies
Post Course Awards, Pilot Awards, and Thesis Research Awards are provided for tropical biology research in Costa Rica and the Amazon region. Eligible students are those who have participated in an OTS course in tropical biology, and graduate students who are enrolled in degree programs at member institutions.

Population Council
The Policy Research Division (PRD) of the Population Council offers a few residential post-doctoral fellowships to persons who wish to pursue advanced training and research in population studies under the mentorship of a member of its research staff. Population Council fellowships are designed to provide support for significant population studies in combination with a social science discipline, such as economics, sociology, and public health.

Rainforest Alliance
Kleinhans Fellowship for Research in Tropical Non-Timber Forest Products aims to promote research into the practical means of managing and using tropical forest resources without destroying the integrity of the forest ecosystem. Anyone with a master's degree in forestry, ecology, environmental science, or appropriate related fields may apply; doctoral candidates or postdoctoral researchers preferred.

Resources for the Future (RFF)
The RFF awards several fellowships and internships for support of doctoral dissertation research in economics and other social sciences, on issues related to the environment, natural resources, or energy.

School of American Research
The School of American Research is a center for advanced study that supports resident scholars engaged in original research in anthropology and related fields. Preference is given to applicants whose fieldwork is complete and need time to write.

Sigma Delta Epsilon
Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science, Inc., a national organization, administers three awards to increase knowledge in the fundamental sciences and encourage research in sciences by women. Candidates must show evidence of outstanding ability and promise in research and hold a degree in science from a recognized institution of higher learning. Fellowships are open to graduate students as well as postdoctoral students.

Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum
The Institution offers in-residence appointments for research and study using its facilities, and the advice and guidance of its staff members. Programs include 1) Graduate Student Fellowships, 2) Predoctoral Fellowships, and 3) Postdoctoral Fellowships Senior Fellowships.

Social Science Research Council (International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships)
The program is open to full-time graduate students in the social sciences and humanities—regardless of citizenship—enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States. The program invites proposals for field research on all areas or regions of the world, as well as for research that is comparative, cross-regional, and/or cross-cultural.

Social Science Research Council (Predissertation Fellowship in Applied Economics)
The fellowship is designed to prepare students to undertake innovative empirical and/or theoretical research that addresses vital and complex economic and social issues. Applicants must have completed their required course work and qualifying exams by the time that they take up the fellowship award but do not need to have an approved dissertation topic.

The Spencer Foundation
The Spencer Dissertation Fellowships for Research Related to Education are intended to support the final analysis of the research topic and the writing of the dissertation. Although the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline, including psychology, sociology, history, philosophy, economics, or anthropology, as well as in departments or schools of education. Applicants must be candidates for a Ph.D. or Ed.D. degree at a graduate school in the United States.

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
The Foundation has a variety of grant programs for anthropological research and scholarship that are open to applicants irrespective of nationality or country of residence.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Foundation offers several dissertation grants in women's studies and the humanities. Students are eligible to apply if they are in doctoral programs and have completed all predissertation requirements, including approval of the dissertation prospectus, in an appropriate field of study at graduate schools in the United States.