The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation promotes work in the social and natural sciences and related fields to improve understanding of violence's origins, manifestations, and control in today's world through its research efforts.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars, Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars, and Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows are signature research grants.
In addition, the Foundation researches, commissions, and publishes unique research on current violence issues. It hosts conferences, seminars, briefings, and other gatherings to discuss specific forms of violence.
The program gives priority to work that addresses pressing contemporary issues of violence, such as what causes it, how it operates, and what can be done to prevent or decrease it.
The Foundation is concerned with violence involving a variety of topics, including but not limited to:
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War \Crime \Terrorism
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Relationships with family and intimate partners
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Instability in the climate and competition for natural resources
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Conflicts of race, ethnicity, and religion
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Extremism and nationalism in politics
The Foundation funds research into the fundamental mechanisms that cause violence. Still, it prioritizes work that makes a convincing case for the implications of prospective discoveries for policies and practices aimed to reduce these problems. Similarly, historical study is examined only if relevant to a contemporary violent scenario. Examining the repercussions of violence is beneficial if it can be shown that these outcomes serve as causes of future violence.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation does not accept unsolicited requests for assistance.
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The Foundations offers eight opportunities of various kinds. Below are described HFG Journalism Fellowships and Awards followed closely by the other three opportunities of the Foundation.
HFG Distinguished Scholars
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Awards (previously the Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Grants) honor prominent scholars who propose contributing to explaining a violent subject.
Proposals from any scientific and social sciences and related fields are welcome, as long as they promise to improve understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggressiveness. Research that addresses pressing, current-day concerns of violence—what causes it, how it operates, and what prevents or lowers it—gets top consideration.
The Distinguished Scholar Awards
The majority of grants vary from $15,000 to $45,000 each year for one or two years. Applications for larger amounts and longer periods of time will be accepted, but they must be well-founded. Individuals (or, on rare occasions, two or three leading investigators) receive funds for specific initiatives rather than broad research support. Institutions do not accept them for institutional programs. Individuals who obtain research grants may be taxed on the money they receive.
Timing
Applications must be sent by August to be considered for a December decision. The Board of Directors makes the final choices at its December meeting. Applicants will be shortly notified of the Board's decision through email as soon as possible. Awards usually begin in January, although if the nature of the research warrants it, a later start date may be sought.
Eligibility
Citizens of any country are eligible to apply for an award. Although practically all award recipients have a Ph.D., M.D., J.D., or similar degree, the honor has no official degree requirements. The scholarship, however, cannot be used to fund research that is part of a graduate degree's requirements. Although most applicants are college or university teachers, they are not required to be linked with a higher education institution.
Application
Between May 1 and August 1, candidates for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award can apply online. To view the application and guidelines, applicants must first create an account. The instructions can also be found by clicking on the second link below.
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Application Guidelines (PDF) - https://bit.ly/3i8W3HR
HFG Emerging Scholars
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards (previously the Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowships) honor outstanding graduate students in the last year of preparing a doctoral dissertation on a topic related to violence.
The Emerging Scholar Awards
These awards are usually granted to promising young academics. They are exclusively offered to students in their last year of Ph.D. studies for support. The prize is for a year and is worth $25,000. It helps a doctorate candidate finish a dissertation that advances the Foundation's research priorities as mentioned above in a timely way.
This prize does not support doctoral research. Applicants can be representatives of any country, enrolled in institutions or universities of their respective countries.
Eligibility
Applicants must be Ph.D. candidates in the dissertation stage of their graduate studies to be considered for a prize. This usually signifies that fieldwork or other research has been completed, and reporting has started or will begin during the award. An application should not be filed if the investigation and writing are not far enough for the applicant to be confident that the dissertation will be finished within the award year. Some disciplines, particularly experimental areas, can legitimately expect research and writing to be finished within the same year, and it is appropriate to apply in those situations.
Application
Between November 1 and February 1, candidates for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholar Awards can apply online. To view the application and guidelines, applicants must first create an account. The instructions can also be found by clicking on the second link below.
Online Application (Login required) - https://bit.ly/34HCIKG
Application Guidelines (PDF) - https://bit.ly/3iccLpP
More information can be found through the link (https://bit.ly/3CMHHpZ)
HFG Pembroke College Research Fellow program
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellowship was established in 2011 at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, to encourage post-doctoral research that would substantially contribute to the study of violence.
The three-year award, which Pembroke College chose, focuses on the causes, manifestations, and control of violence in today's world. Candidates that make a persuasive case for the importance of prospective findings for policies to reduce these problems are given priority.
Candidates are chosen from the humanities, political science, social sciences, and related fields. During their stay, the fellow lives at Pembroke College and is admitted as a fellow.
The fellowship allows the fellow to plan a conference in Cambridge to examine an aspect of their study that is relevant to both scholarship and practice and speak about their work in collaboration with the Foundation.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Research Fellowship was established in 2011 at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, to encourage post-doctoral research that would substantially contribute to the study of violence.
More information can be found through the link (https://bit.ly/36hoGzS)
HFG AFRICAN FELLOWS
Emerging African scholars addressing aspects of violence on or directly related to the African continent are recognized with the Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellow Awards (previously the Harry Frank Guggenheim Young African Scholars).
The Foundation selects a group of Harry Frank Guggenheim African Fellows every two years. Approximately a dozen emerging scholars are honored for high-quality initiatives directly related to the Foundation's concern in violence.
The African Fellow Awards are open to ideas from any of the social and scientific sciences and related fields that promise further knowledge of the origins, manifestations, and control of violence and aggressiveness. Research that can improve understanding and alleviate significant problems of violence and hostility in the current world is given top priority. The proposed initiative must have a direct connection to Africa.
The African Fellow Awards
Individual scholars are awarded fellowships for two years. An in-person methods workshop on the African continent, $10,000 fieldwork research grants, tutoring from senior African and Africanist scholars, sponsorship at an international forum to introduce research results. Editorial and publication guidance through a writing workshop to support and prepare scholars to write for and submit their research to international peer-reviewed journals and other outlets are included in the African Fellow Awards.
Eligibility
Any country's citizens are eligible for the fellowship. They must be under 40 years old, enrolled in a recognized Ph.D. program at an African university, and live on the continent.
Among the fellowships offered by the Foundation, there are also other programs and symposiums hosted by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
At the crossroads
HFG is producing a series about community violence in New York City and other major cities. At the Crossroads, a year-long series hosted by crime justice specialist and HFG Honorary Fellow of Practice Greg Berman aims to answer these concerns by conducting in-depth interviews with prominent researchers, legislators, practitioners, and advocates in New York and other cities. You can find the article series by following the link. (https://bit.ly/36nzfBj)
HFG Symposium on Crime in America
At John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the Foundation hosts a two-day conference every year. The conference brings together top academics, officials, and media to increase public awareness of the country's most pressing crime and violence concerns.
Each year the symposiums focus on various topics.
The Center on Media, Crime, and Justice at John Jay College chose 20-30 Harry Frank Guggenheim Journalism Fellows to visit the symposium each year. The fellowship brings together working reporters, producers, and editors with prominent criminal justice experts, policymakers, and practitioners to better understand crime and violence.
The yearly Harry Frank Guggenheim Awards for Excellence in Criminal Justice Journalism are also awarded at the symposium. The honors administered by the Center on Media, Crime, and Justice honor the best print and online justice coverage by a U.S.-based media organization from the previous year. The finest series and single-story winners are picked.
To learn more or register for the symposium, please follow the link. (https://bit.ly/3MS7aTz)
Knowledge Against Violence Speaker Series
The HFG Foundation Knowledge Against Violence Speaker Series brings together prominent violence experts to present timely research and analysis to an informed audience.
Guest speakers from the Foundation's network of academics and practitioners discuss the causes, expressions, and responses to violence in war, crime, terrorism, close relationships, environmental instability, and political extremism.
The series begins online before moving to an in-person format. The public is welcome to attend the hour activities. You can find any additional data about the speakers and their topics through this link. (https://bit.ly/3MS7aTz)
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