Harry Frank Guggenheim (HFG) Emerging Scholar Awards for Graduate Student Researchers 2025

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards (formerly the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships) recognize promising graduate-student researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation examining a salient aspect of violence.

The Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences or allied disciplines that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.

The Foundation is interested in violence related to many subjects, including, but not limited to, the following:

• War
• Crime
• Terrorism
• Family and intimate-partner relationships
• Climate instability and natural resource competition
• Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict
• Political extremism and nationalism

• Table of Content
• About Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
• Emerging Scholar Awards
• Aim and Benefits of Emerging Scholar Awards
• Requirements for Emerging Scholar Awards Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Emerging Scholar Awards
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation was established by Harry Guggenheim to support research on violence, aggression, and dominance. The foundation writes: "He was convinced that solid, thoughtful, scholarly and scientific research, experimentation, and analysis would in the end accomplish more than the usual solutions impelled by urgency rather than understanding. We do not yet hold the solution to violence, but better analyses, more acute predictions, constructive criticisms, and new, effective ideas will come in time from investigations such as those supported b...... continue reading

Emerging Scholar Awards

Aim and Benefits of Emerging Scholar Awards

• The award is $25,000 for one year and contributes to the support of a doctoral candidate to enable the completion of a dissertation that advances the Foundation’s research interests described above in a timely manner.
• They are available only to students for support during the final year of Ph.D. studies.
• The award does not support doctoral research.

Requirements for Emerging Scholar Awards Qualification

• Applicants for an award must be Ph.D. candidates entering the dissertation stage of graduate study. Usually, this means that fieldwork or other research is complete and writing has begun or will at the beginning of the award period. If analysis and writing are not far enough along for an applicant to be confident that the dissertation will be completed within the award year, an application should not be submitted. In some disciplines, particularly experimental fields, research and writing can reasonably be expected to be completed within the same year, and in those cases, it is appropriate to apply.
• Applicants may be citizens of any country and studying at colleges or universities in any country. 

Interview date, Process and Venue for Emerging Scholar Awards

Timing

Applications for the awards open annually on November 1 and must be received by February 1 the following year for a decision in June. Final decisions are made by the HFG Board of Directors at its meeting in June 2024. Applicants will be informed promptly by email of the Board’s decision. Awards ordinarily commence on September 1, but other starting dates (after July 1) may be requested if the nature of the project deems this appropriate.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Candidates for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards may apply online annually between November 1 and February 1. Applicants must create an account to access the application and guidelines. The guidelines are also available through the second link below.

Online Application (Login required)

Application Guidelines (PDF)

Advice for Applicants (PDF)

For more details,visit HFG scholarship website