Graduate Funding Resources

The Politics Ph.D. Program provides different levels of funding support to each graduate student. Students and their faculty mentors are advised to work together to search for funding past the student's years of guaranteed department support. Below are some resources to assist in this search.

Politics Graduate Program Faculty Mentor Funding Resource Sheet

Politics faculty mentors can use this resource to guide their mentees. It can be found here. 

Non-Department Funding Sources

See below for a list of organizations providing grants and fellowships that UCSC Politics Ph.D. students may be eligible for. This list is not comprehensive. If you have suggestions for the list, please contact the Graduate Program Coordinator.

On-campus:

• Humanities Institute Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development program
• Research Center for the Americas
• Environmental Studies Department

Off-campus:

• American Association of University Women
• Boren Fellowships for International Study
• Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Abroad Fellowships
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund
• Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
• National Geographic
• National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• National Science Foundation
• Open Society Foundation
• Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
• Point Foundation National LGTBQ Scholarship Fund
• Smith Richardson Foundation World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship
• Social Science Research Council
• Spencer Foundation
• Wenner-Gren Foundation

Other Politics Ph.D. funding agency lists:

• American Political Science Association
• GrantForward Search Engine
• The Ohio State University
• UC Santa Barbara
• University of Pennsylvania