Brandeis graduate students regularly receive fellowships and grants to support their MA and PhD research. This page lists funds available through Brandeis University (internal) as well as other associations (external) where students can apply for grants.

You can also take a look at Johns Hopkins University's continually updated databases of graduate fellowships and postdoctoral fellowships.  In addition, the Mandel Center for the Humanities is currently providing exciting new funding opportunities for graduate students in the humanities, arts, and humanistic social sciences. These include research grants, dissertation writing retreats, and writing accountability groups for doctoral students. 

Multidisciplinary Databases

A research guide from Brandeis Library that links you to subscription databases containing funding opportunities across the academic disciplines and in the social sector.

Identify grantmakers and potential funding sources with this database from the Foundation Center. Updated weekly, it also provides keyword searching of IRS 990 filings.

Find funding for your research via this database of grant sponsors and funding opportunities. Create a researcher profile for easier searching and customized recommendations.

Grants.gov allows individuals and organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.

The organization Immigrants Rising has created a list of scholarships and fellowships that do not require proof of US citizenship of the recipients.

A resource for identifying research funding. Users may create Pivot accounts, which allow them to manage active or tracked funding opportunities, save funding records and searches, and manage saved searches and shared opportunities.

Funds Available

We have compiled this list in order to provide resources for GSAS students, but as the page links to many external websites, we cannot always be sure that all links are up-to-date. If you find a broken or incorrect link when using this page, please contact Abigail Arnold; however, please be sure to search the website linked to before determining that a link is incorrect.

Brandeis University Funds (Internal)

Funding Available Outside of Brandeis (External)