Short-Term Research Publication Grants For Women In USA

American Fellowships Short-Term Research Publication Grants Application Instructions

Program Purpose

AAUW’s American Fellowships program has been in existence since 1888, making it the oldest noninstitutional source of graduate funding for women in the United States. The program provides fellowships for women pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research full time, or preparing research for publication for eight consecutive weeks.

Short-Term Research Publication Grants provide support to scholars to prepare research manuscripts for publication. Preference will be given to applicants whose work supports the vision of AAUW: to break through educational and economic barriers so that all women have a fair chance.

Applications are open August 1–November 1

Award Amount

$6,000 is available for an eight-week grant period

Eligibility

• American Fellowships are not open to previous recipients of any AAUW national fellowship or grant (not including branch or local awards or Community Action Grants). Members and officers of the AAUW Board of Directors are not eligible to apply for fellowships and grant awards. AAUW staff or volunteers with decision-making authority who wish to apply for an award must recuse themselves from the decision-making process.
• American Fellowship candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
• American Fellowships are open to women scholars in all fields of study.
• Short-Term Research Publication Grants applicants must hold a Ph.D., Ed.D., D.B.A., M.F.A., J.D., M.D., D.M.D., D.V.M., D.S.W., or M.P.H. at the time of application.
• Tenured professors are not eligible.
• The grants are for tenure-track, part-time, and temporary faculty, as well as new and established researchers at universities.
• Scholars with strong publication records should seek funding elsewhere.
• Time must be available for eight consecutive weeks of final manuscript preparation. While many recipients, especially full-time faculty members, will use the awards during the summer, recipients may use the funds at any time during the fellowship year.
• All applicants must demonstrate that the support will result in a reduction of their ongoing work-related activities.
• The grants are not for preliminary research. Activities undertaken during the grant period can include drafting, editing, or modifying manuscripts; replicating research components; responding to issues raised through critical review; and other initiatives to increase the likelihood of publication.
• The publication must be original and cannot be co-authored.
• Applicants may not apply for another AAUW national fellowship or grant in the same year.
• Distance learning/online programs: American Fellowships support traditional classroom-based courses of study. This fellowship program does not provide funding for distance learning programs or for degrees heavily dependent on distance learning components. Final decisions about what constitutes distance learning under these fellowships will be made by AAUW.

Short-Term Research Publication Grants For Women In USA

Criteria for Selection and Application Review

The American Fellowships panel meets once a year to review applications for funding. Awards are based on the selection criteria outlined here. The panel’s recommendations are subject to final approval by the AAUW Board of Directors. Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis according to funds available in a given fiscal year. To ensure a fair and objective review process, AAUW does not comment on the deliberations of its award panels. No provisions exist for reconsidering fellowship proposals after the board has acted. AAUW does not provide evaluations of successful or unsuccessful applications. Applications and supporting documents become the sole property of AAUW and will not be returned or held for another year.

In selecting fellowship recipients, the following criteria will be considered:

• Applicant’s scholarly excellence
• Quality of project design
• Originality of project
• Scholarly significance of project to the discipline
• Feasibility of project and proposed schedule
• Qualifications of applicant
• Applicant’s commitment to women’s issues in the profession/community
• Applicant’s mentoring of other women
• Applicant’s teaching experience
• Potential of applicant to make a significant contribution to the field
• Applicant is from an underrepresented racial/ethnic background
• Applicant is from an underrepresented area of the country and/or type of university other than a top-level research institution
• Financial Need

The primary criterion for fellowship awards is scholarly excellence. Applications are reviewed by distinguished scholars and should be prepared accordingly.

When comparing proposals of equal merit, the review panel will give special consideration to women holding junior academic appointments who are seeking research leave, women who have held the doctorate for at least three years, and women whose educational careers have been interrupted. Preference will also be given to projects that are not simply a revision of the doctoral dissertation and whose work supports the vision of AAUW: to break through educational and economic barriers so that all women have a fair chance.

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Deadline: November 1, 2019.