The Sociology Program awards dissertation improvement grants in order to support the highest quality doctoral dissertation research in sociology and related disciplines. Grants are for the direct costs of doing the research, including support of fieldwork away from the student's home campus and for more flexible acquisition and analysis of information than would otherwise be possible.
Application is made on the student's behalf by the dissertation advisor.
More information about the nature of dissertation grants, applicant eligibility, and proposal and grant processing is given in the announcement, Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research . For proposals involving human subjects, please be sure to submit the Human Subjects Certification form from the submitting institution. If the certification is pending, please include information to that effect. If it is ready at the time you submit, the institutional form certifying that your project has been approved should be scanned and incorporated in a pdf file in the supplementary documents section of the proposal. All proposals must be submitted electronically via Fastlane .