Other Fields
Center for African Studies
The Center for African Studies offers funding to Harvard undergraduate students traveling to Africa for thesis research, internships, volunteer work or study abroad. Grants require a minimum stay of eight weeks in Africa. Our grant awards are limited and intended to cover round-trip travel and a modest stipend.
For more info, see here.
Deadline: February 15th, 2024.
Undergraduate Research Scholarships in Australian Studies:
To support research and/or field work related to an area of Australian studies. For more info. visit their website
The Canada Program Undergraduate Thesis Research Grants
The Center will award undergraduate thesis research grants of up to $6,000 each for field research in Canada. Recipients of the grants will be named Undergraduate Associates of the Weatherhead Center and are expected to present their thesis research at a conference in the spring semester before their theses are due.
For more info, click here.
Deadline: February 15th, 2024.
Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR)
The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR) awards summer grants to assist Harvard juniors with research for a senior honors thesis. The department(s) in which the thesis will be written is open so long as research addresses one or more areas of ethnicity, race, im/migration, Indigeneity, and human rights.
For more info. visit: https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/grants
Deadline: February 14, 2024
The Harvard University Center for the Environment Summer Undergraduate Student Research Fund
The Center for the Environment’s Undergraduate Summer Research Fund provides financial support for student research projects related to the environment.
For more info, see here.
Center for Jewish Studies
To support qualified Harvard undergraduates with summer research or study in Jewish studies. For more info., click here.
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies offers fellowships and travel grants to Harvard undergraduates during wintersession and summer for Arabic language study, and research/fieldwork in Israel.
For more info. about CMES funding please click here.
Center for the Study of World Religions
The Harvard Divinity School awards an undergraduate award for summer senior thesis-related research. For theses that significantly address an interreligious, cross-cultural, or comparative theme. The research may be ethnographic or archival, and a portion of the award may be used for the purchase of books.
For more info. please click here.
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Supports undergraduate students conducting thesis research related to Latin America and the Caribbean. Research proposals are accepted from all disciplines, but must be directly related to the region.
For more info, see here.
Department of Romance Languages (Dressler Family Traveling Grant
For travel and study in the Romance language countries (e.g. France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, and Latin America). Students must have completed at least one course in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard. Financial need is a requirement for application. For more info, see here.
Harvard College Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (URAF)
The Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships administers more than 30 fellowship competitions annually, for both prestigious national fellowships and scholarships as well as Harvard fellowships, which are open to Harvard College undergraduates. For information visit: https://uraf.harvard.edu/uraf-administered-programs
Yun Family Research Fellows Fund for Revolutionary Thinking
The Yun Family Research Fellows Fund for Revolutionary Thinking is designed to support undergraduate scholars of talent and promise who want to explore the theory and practice of tackling the worlds problems through bold, innovative, and novel research projects of their own design.The award promotes creative and unconventional approaches that display a high degree of originality and intellectual depth.All disciplines are eligible for consideration, and projects may encompass inter- and multi-disciplinary permutations. Projects also may serve as the foundation for undergraduate thesis submission, as approved by academic departments.
Application materials may be found on CARAT, https://carat.fas.harvard.edu, under Yun Family Research Fellows Fund for Revolutionary Thinking.
For questions please email: undergradresearch@fas.harvard.edu