American Political Science Association Funding Resources Political Science Grants, Fellowships, Scholarships & Funding

American Political Science Association Funding Resources maintains a list of fellowships and grants for undergraduate, graduate, post-doc and research opportunities.

Atlas Corps

Atlas Corps develops leaders, strengthens organizations and promotes innovation through an overseas fellowship of skilled professionals.

Chevening Scholarships

Chevening is the UK government’s international awards scheme aimed at developing global leaders.

Funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations, Chevening offers two types of award – Chevening Scholarships and Chevening Fellowships – the recipients of which are personally selected by British Embassies and High Commissions throughout the world.

Chevening offers a unique opportunity for future leaders, influencers, and decision-makers from all over the world to develop professionally and academically, network extensively, experience UK culture, and build lasting positive relationships with the UK.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Provides information some advanced (usually post-doc) fellowship opportunities.

The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund

The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides grants to students actively working for peace and justice. These need-based scholarships are awarded to those able to do academic work at the university level in the United States and who are part of the progressive movement on the campus and in the community.

Echoing Green's Fellowship Program

Echoing Green awards two-year fellowships to emerging social innovators. Annually, we award fellowships to individuals with innovative ideas for creating new models for tackling seemingly unsolvable social challenges. These fellowships offer them the opportunity to develop and test their ideas.

Fullbright Fellowships

Fulbright Fellowships offers fellowship for US students and faculty to study and conduct research/teaching abroad and for international students and faculty to pursue opportunities in the US.

Gates Cambridge Scholarships

The Gates Cambridge Scholarship programme was established in October 2000 by a donation of US$210m from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Cambridge; this is the largest ever single donation to a UK university.

Scholarships are awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge.

H-Net

H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. H-Net provides information on numerous fellowship opportunities related to academia.

The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship

The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship invites college graduates (Graduate Student or Ph.D./M.D./Other Professional) to apply for full-time, six to nine-month fellowships in Washington, District of Columbia. Outstanding individuals will be selected to work with nonprofit, public-interest organizations addressing peace and security issues.

Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace

Each summer, the Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace provides funding for 100 aspiring and experienced peacemakers to attend the Middlebury Language Schools, and for a group of Davis United World College Scholars to study at the Monterey Institute.

Kathryn Davis Fellows for Peace receive training in foreign language or policy studies and go on to use their skills for the greater good—in peace-related professions and initiatives all around the world.

Open Society Fellowship

The Open Society Fellowship was founded in 2008 to support individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges. The fellowship funds work that will enrich public understanding of those challenges and stimulate far-reaching and probing conversations within the Open Society Foundations and in the world.

Peace and Collaborative Development Network

There are hundreds of scholarship and fellowship opportunities posted on the site. You can find these opportunities in the forums on Fellowship Opportunities and also Research. A useful way to identify opportunities is to search by keywords such as fellowship, scholarship, graduate, Ph.D., "Call for Applications", etc.

ProInspire

ProInspire develops leaders at all levels for organizations addressing the world’s greatest challenges.

Public Service Graduate Education Resource Center

The Public Service Graduate Education Resource Center was developed by Idealist, one of the leading nonprofit career sites. The site has key information for individuals seeking to pursue graduate programs related to social change. The resources includes tips for how to select a program, how to write an effective application, application procedures, identifying funding and more.

Rotary Peace Fellows

Rotary Centers provide Rotary World Peace Fellows with the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree in conflict resolution, peace studies, international relations, and related areas. Each year, up to 60 Rotary World Peace Fellowships are offered on a competitive basis at six Rotary Centers, which operate in partnership with seven leading universities. Applications need to be over 25 years of age and have several years experience.

Schwarzman Scholars

Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective, one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing that is designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders for the challenges of the future.

United States Institute of Peace

USIP Fellowship programs support research, analysis and writing on urgent issues of conflict prevention, conflict management and peacebuilding by outstanding individuals with subject and regional expertise and experience critical to the work of the Institute.