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UC MEXUS Grants for Dissertation Research in USA, 2016

UC MEXUS Grants for Dissertation Research in USA, 2016

UC MEXUS is pleased to announce a competition for the support of dissertation research or MFA final projects by University of California graduate students in the areas of Mexico-Related Studies-All Disciplines, Latino Studies, United States-Mexican Relations, Critical U.S.-Mexico Issues, Mexican and Latino Topics in the Arts and Humanities, UC-Mexico Collaboration.

Awards of up to $12,000 will be provided for a project period of two years (January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2018) to support research leading to the dissertation or final MFA project.

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Course Level: Fellowships are available for dissertation research.

Study Subject: Fellowships are awarded in the areas of Mexico-Related Studies-All Disciplines, Latino Studies, United States-Mexican Relations, Critical U.S.-Mexico Issues, Mexican and Latino Topics in the Arts and Humanities, UC-Mexico Collaboration.

Scholarship Award: Awards of up to $12,000 will be provided for a project period of two years (January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2018) to support research leading to the dissertation or final MFA project. The grant period will end if the student graduates within that two-year period.

Allowable expenses include:

  • Domestic and international travel for the field, laboratory and archival research; data collection; and meetings. Keep in mind that the program is intended to fund research activities directly related to completing the dissertation or MFA final project. As a result, conference attendance is given lower priority in the review process and, if included, should be limited to one meeting, no more than $500 of the total budget, and directly related to the development of the dissertation research or reporting on its results.
  • Computing, lab analyses, and other costs necessary to the research.
  • Payment for field or research assistants, but only if well justified as to why this work would not be done by the applicant.
  • Support stipends for periods of the field and archival research if well justified and when no other source of support is available. Stipends are limited to a maximum of $1,000 per month and may not exceed $6,000 over the entire two-year project period.
  • Items which will not be funded include:
  • Salaries, tuition, or associated academic/educational fees.
  • Equipment purchases for items over $1,000.
  • Indirect costs or institutional overhead assessments.
  • Printing, publication, or editing costs of the dissertation or MFA final project.
  • Reimbursement for activities that occur before the project period begins.
  • All budgets are subject to strict administrative review. No project will be funded until all the appropriate items have been approved.

Scholarship can be taken in the USA

Eligibility: 

  • University of California graduate students in good academic standing is eligible if they will have advanced to candidacy for the research doctorate by December 31, 2016.
  • Successful proposals will not be funded until advancement to candidacy is attained.
  • Only one proposal will be accepted from any student. Proposals for renewals of previous UC MEXUS awards will not be considered.
  • Mexican nationals currently enrolled in UC graduate programs, including UC MEXUS-CONACYT Doctoral Fellows, may apply to the dissertation research grants competition. However, please note that the selection process is based on the proposed project’s fit to UC MEXUS goals and, specifically, a thematic connection to Mexico, completely independent of the applicant’s nationality.

Nationality: Fellowship Program is open to US applicants.

How to Apply:

  • Proposals must be submitted by eligible UC graduate students using the online application site. The items required for a complete application are listed below and on the online application site. Each of the items must be completed online before you will be allowed to submit the entire application.
  • In addition, two hard copy sets of one complete proposal packet (original plus one copy), including the Institutional Approval Form with original signatures, must be submitted to UC MEXUS at the address listed below within 10 days following the online application deadline of September 12, 2016, for the application to be considered complete (i.e., by September 23, 2016). The proposal packets must include hard copies of all files uploaded to the online application submission site.

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Application Deadline: Closed

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