Distinguished Scholar Awards
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Individual research awards for work on the causes, manifestations and control of violence, including crime, punishment, family violence, and racial or ethnic conflict. Awards go to the individual scholar rather than the institution.
- Indicative award
- $15k–$75k per year (per year)The programme page states awards are typically $15,000 to $75,000 per year for one or two years, made to the individual (occasionally 2-3 principal investigators) rather than as institutional support.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jul, SepNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Two-stage annual cycle. For the 2027 award year the letter of interest was due 31 July 2026 and invited full applications plus references are due 11 September 2026, 11:59pm ET; decisions at the December board meeting with awards typically starting 1 January. The next open letter-of-interest window r
- Who can apply
- Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Any faculty rank, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Open to applicants of any nationality and any country; no formal degree requirement, though most recipients hold a PhD, MD, JD or equivalent. Institutional affiliation is not required. Research that fulfils requirements for a graduate degree is not eligible.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- violence · crime · punishment · family violence · ethnic conflict
- Apply at
- https://www.hfg.org/distinguished-scholars/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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