Smith Richardson Foundation

The SRF offers the following funding opportunities:

• International Junior Faculty Research Grant:  to support junior faculty research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.  The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to support tenure-track junior faculty engaged in the research and writing of a scholarly book on an issue or topic of interest to the policy community.  These grants are intended to buy-out up to one year of teaching time and to underwrite research costs (including research assistance and travel).  Each grant will be paid directly to, and should be administered by, the academic institution at which the junior faculty member works.  Projects in military and diplomatic history are especially encouraged. Group or collabrative projects will not be considered.  Deadline:  June 30, 2008

• Domestic Public Policy Program Research Fellowship:  to support the work of the next generation of public policy researchers and analysts.  The Foundation will award at least three research grants in the amount of $60,000 each to individuals who are interested in conducting research and writing on domestic public policy issues. Grantees are expected to produce a book or an article suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The grant can be used to cover the salary costs of the researcher and to underwrite research costs, such as travel, research assistance, and data acquisition. Each grant will be paid directly to, and should be administered by, the institution at which the researcher works.  Deadline:  June 30, 2008 
  
  
• Grants Database:  see web site for details

For doctoral candidates:

• World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship:  to support Ph.D. dissertation research on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, strategic studies, area studies, and diplomatic and military history.  The fellowship’s objective is to support the research and writing of policy-relevant dissertations through funding of fieldwork, archival research, and language training.  In evaluating applications, the Foundation will accord preference to those projects that could directly inform U.S. policy debates and thinking, rather than dissertations that are principally focused on abstract theory or debates within a scholarly discipline.  The Foundation will award up to twenty grants of $7,500 each.  Deadline:  October 31, 2008