The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies announces the availability of pre-dissertation grants to aid graduate students in their pre-doctoral dissertation research. Yale Ph.D. students in the Graduate School’s Ph.D. granting departments and programs in the Humanities and Social Sciences (including programs based in the professional schools) are eligible to apply. Students in the Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering & Applied Sciences divisions are ineligible for this award.
ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE THROUGH THIS DATABASE.
Project Proposal: a personal statement relating the proposed project to your degree program and career plans (not to exceed two typewritten, single-space pages).
Budget of your total estimated project expenses and all sources of revenue including funds requested in this application.
Language Evaluation from your language instructor regarding level of proficiency in relevant language(s). Not required for travel to English speaking countries. If your are currently not enrolled in a language course you can submit a Language Evaluation Personal Statement instead. A personal statement listing all applicable language classes taken and/or knowledge of language. ONLY for applicants who will not be submitting a language evaluation letter from instructor.
Yale transcript (unofficial transcripts are acceptable). In order to obtain one please go to http://www.yale.edu/sis/ and print it as a PDF file.
One letter of recommendation from a Yale faculty member who can comment knowledgeably on your project.
It is the applicant’s responsibility to see that the complete application, including letter of recommendation and transcripts, reaches us by the deadline; applications cannot be considered without this information.
Notifications of awards will be made by late April.
Normally, only one Pre-Dissertation Grant will be awarded to a given student.Students may not apply to both the MacMillan Center Pre-Dissertation Grant and the MacMillan Center International Dissertation Research Grant competitions at the same time. If two applications are received, one will be discarded.
Yale University policy requires that certain types of research projects involving human subjects be reviewed and approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to the start of the study to ensure that the project meets University Policy and any other applicable regulations. To see if your project needs to be reviewed, for advice on working with human subjects, and for more information about the IRB process and requirements click here.Territories of the United States are are not considered eligible locations for this grant.The grant only supports research or projects related to the prospectus of the applicant. Language study programs are not eligible.