Funding Opportunities

Summer Research Funding

Global Metropolitan Studies (GMS) is pleased to announce a competition for summer research grants of up to $5000 to students at any stage of the PhD currently enrolled in the Designated Emphasis.  Applications for the next round of funding will be due in February 2025. Applications for pre-dissertation research are especially encouraged, but all projects will be considered, subject to available funding. Applicants must be enrolled in, or should have already completed, the GMS 200 core course. To apply, please fill out the following Google Form. Faculty recommendations on behalf of students should be submitted on a separate Google Form.

Recent (2024) recipients of funding include:

• Priscilla Coli (DCRP), “Making the city, Making a Constituency: Milícias’ Enclaves and Urbanization in the Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.”
• Derek Wu (Ethnic Studies), “Decolonizing Faith-Based Development in Oakland, CA”
• Leyi Zhou (Social Welfare), “Navigating Transnational Caregiving: Exploring Family Dynamics and Challenges among China’s One-Child Generation”
• Pranav Kuttaiah (DCRP), “Between Opportunity and Precarity: Examining the Labor Market Choices and Multi-local Lives of Young Migrant Workers in India”
• Chris Chan (Anthropology), “The Archipelagic Avant-garde: Symbolic Power and Recognition in the Taiwan Strait”
• Jonathon Marty (DCRP), “State Space and the Public Realm in the Métropole du Grand Paris”
• Ameen Lotfi (ESPM), “The Medina’s Medicine: Food Sovereignty and Cultural Resilience in Urban Algeria”
• Kelly Leilani Main (LAEP), “The Impacts of French colonialism on Wetlands in Al Maghreb and the implications for wetland management today, particularly pertaining to the Ramsar convention”

Conference Funding

GMS also supports the costs of attending conferences for students enrolled in the DE. Applications should be submitted before the conference (e.g. upon conference registration), and will be accepted on a rolling basis. Students will be awarded no more than one grant per year and no more than two grants per academic career. Each student who is applying should already have made use of a conference grant from graduate division. We therefore recommend that students concentrate their use of the GMS DE conference grants during the post-candidacy stage, when it is vital to present one’s dissertation research at academic conferences. GMS is able to support up to 10 conference grant applications for up to $500 each in the 2024-25 academic year. We will award Fall Conference Travel in Fall semester and Spring Conference Travel in Spring semester.

To apply, fill out the GMS Conference Travel Grant Application.

Student Research Group Funding

GMS is pleased to offer funding of $500-$1500 for new or continuing interdisciplinary student groups working on urban issues. This grant is designed to facilitate communities of practice within GMS and to provide opportunities for students in the DE to organize public programming. Funding may be used to support reading groups, workshops, external speakers, field trips, and other activities that promote the professional development of graduate students and their engagement in the DE.

Conditions:
At least two applicants must already be enrolled in the GMS Designated Emphasis (applicants can be at any stage of the PhD process). Awards are granted for $500-$1500. Activities must be completed by the end of the Spring 2025 semester, including a public event in Spring 2025 open to the GMS and wider campus community. Applications for this funding opportunity are due by November 15, 2024. We currently are accepting new applications.

Payment:
Grants will be paid as reimbursement through the Social Science Matrix, who will contact you upon acceptance of the grant. You must submit a copy of receipts with reimbursement requests. Timely submission of reimbursement requests (within a month of completion of activities) is also required.

Application:

Apply for Student Group Funding

Inquiries:
Please direct any questions to GMS Co-Directors.