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Application guidelines for our grants and fellowships can be found on individual pages listed on the left or below. 

Applications for Gender Institute PhD Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline for Applications: April 8, 2019

Click for Qualifications and Application Instructions.

Congratulations to our Gender Institute Award Winners for 2017-2018!

Gender Institute Award Winners 2017-18.

Sincere thanks to go Professor Isabel Marcus in the UB Law School for funding the Isabel Marcus International Research Grant for graduate students; Mara Huber, Director of the Experiential Learning Center, for supporting our Undergraduate Scholarships; and Professor Myung Mi Kim, James H. McNulty Chair of English, for funding the travel grant to attend the annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop.

Click here for the full list of awards and the award winners.

PhD Dissertation Fellowships
5/13/19
The Gender Institute dissertation fellowship supports students engaged in dissertation research related to women, gender, and/or sexuality.
International Research Fellowship
4/3/19
The Isabel S. Marcus International Research Fellowship was established in 2012 to recognize the distinguished contributions to research and education on women and gender of Professor Isabel S. Marcus, co-founder and co-director of the Gender Institute (1997-2003) and recipient of UB's 2012 Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education. 
Travel Grants
4/4/19
The UB Gender Institute provides support for doctoral students to attend Duke’s Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW), held annually in March.
PhD Dissertation Workshop
12/4/18
"A mother's vision includes tough nurturance, survival love, a demanding state of grace. It is a vision slowly forming from the body of work created by women. I imagine a wide and encompassing room filled with women lost in concentration. They are absorbed in the creation of an emotional tapestry, an intellectual quilt."      --- Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance  
Mentoring
4/3/19
In recognition of the value and importance of mentoring, the Gender Institute is delighted to announce the establishment of an Excellence in Mentoring Award. The institute seeks to promote and recognize excellence at UB in mentoring undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty at all ranks. We are particularly interested in recognizing the achievements of mentors with a strong record of success in cultivating the professional potential of women, LGBTQ people, people of color, first-generation college students, and students from low-income backgrounds. The award will include a certificate of recognition and a $500 research or travel fund. 
Undergraduate Scholarship
2/4/19
The Gender Institute and the Experiential Learning Network award merit scholarships to UB undergraduate students who are interested in conducting research related to women and gender.
Courses
7/30/18
As a research center rather than an academic department, the Gender Institute itself does not offer courses, but we promote curricular innovation and academic courses related to women, gender, and sexuality offered by departments and schools throughout the University at Buffalo. The courses featured here highlight just a few of UB's outstanding gender-related courses.

Information about UB's BA, MA, and PhD programs in Global Gender Studies can be found at https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/global-gender-sexuality.html.

For a course list in the Global Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, click here.