Graduate Student
Graduate Fellowships
Details
These fellowships from the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies support graduate students during a semester of international fieldwork.
The fellowships are awarded to Cornell PhD students in any field whose dissertation research is relevant to the concerns of the institute. Up to two students receive awards each year.
Eun A Jo, PhD student
The fellowships cover in-absentia tuition, a stipend, and health insurance for one semester. The competition for these academic year fellowships is usually announced at the beginning of the spring semester, with an application deadline in March for fellowships beginning the following academic year.
Examples of topics that have been supported in the past include dual-use technology and weapons proliferation; international humanitarian law and the norms of warfare; the impact of new technologies on peace or conflict; regional security; histories of war or peace; studies of ethnic conflict; international political economy related to security; civil-military relations; terrorism; and post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction.
Requirements
- You must be a doctoral student at Cornell conducting off-campus research related to peace and conflict studies.
- The fellowship support (external funds) is not intended to substitute for Cornell financial support, and should not lead to a reduction in the fellow’s guaranteed package of support at Cornell.
- You are expected to provide a written output related to your off-campus research—such as one or more dissertation chapters or publications-in-progress—and you may be invited to present on this work in the Reppy Institute seminar series.
- For equally competitive applications, preference will be granted to those submitted by students with a record of active participation in the intellectual and social life of the Institute, particularly as our weekly seminar series.
How to Apply
- Complete an online application. You will be asked to provide a thesis title or area of research interest and a short thesis prospectus. Describe what you intend to do during the duration of your research fellowship, including what written work will be produced as a result (e.g., dissertation chapters or a peer-reviewed article) and whether it might make for a suitable research presentation. The recommended length of the prospectus is approximately 2500 words (about 10 pages double-spaced), but longer or shorter proposals are also acceptable.
- Save your online application as you go. Once you submit your application you will still be able to edit your submission up until the deadline.
- Ask your committee chairperson to write a letter of recommendation. Once you submit your fellowship application online, your recommender will be given access to the online system and will receive an automatic email prompting him or her to upload a recommendation letter.
Additional Information
Lourdes Benería Award
Details
The Lourdes Benería Award for summer field research supports students studying gender and planning in Latin America or the Caribbean.
The award was established in 2018 with a generous gift from Lourdes Benería. LACS manages the awards, which fund up to $2,000 for in-country travel and field expenses directly related to dissertation or project paper research (not conference travel or international airfare).
If you need a grant for the cost of international airfare to get to the country of your study site from the U.S., please apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant.
Eligibility
Recipients must be enrolled (full-time or in absentia) in a graduate degree program and be registered at the time of the award. Students must be Cornellians doing research in Latin America or the Caribbean.
Notification of award selection will be sent in late March.
Additional Information
LACS Graduate Student Summer Research Grants
Details
LACS will offer up to three research grants to qualified graduate students who need to conduct field research over the summer of 2026.
Amount
Up to $1000 each.
Eligibility
Criteria for selection includes a substantive focus on Latin America or the Caribbean. Such grants are not intended to cover international travel costs (flights from the U.S. to the country of study). If you need a grant for the cost of international airfare to get to the country of your study site from the U.S., please apply for an Einaudi Center Travel Grant.
How to Apply
Click the apply button below to access the online funding application. Applicants are asked to provide:
- A proposal of the work to be undertaken, including a detailed budget.
- A tentative itinerary/schedule.
- A of list previous and current grant monies received.
- A faculty recommendation from within the applicant's area of study.
Notification of awardee selection will be sent by late March.
If your proposal includes travel to an elevated risk country, you will need to submit a request to ITART to travel. In the event that you receive Einaudi travel grant funds, the award will not be released until you complete the ITART application process. You are strongly encouraged to have a back-up plan for your project in the event that your ITART application is denied, or if the country to which you are traveling should become an elevated risk country subsequent to receiving your travel grant.
Questions
Contact the Program Manager (lacs@cornell.edu) if you have questions.
Additional Information
LACS Graduate Student Conference Grants
Details
LACS provides up to $500 grants to fund travel to graduate students to present at conferences during the period from September 1, 2026 through August 15, 2027. Rolling Application process until our limited funds is exhausted.
Students should be presenting or displaying a poster at a conference focused on Latin America and/or the Caribbean. An award may only be granted once per funding cycle year (October-September) and only after the student applies for funding from their department and/or the Graduate School.
You will be asked to provide an invitation letter to the conference later in the process and before a decision is made.
Amount
Up to $500.
Eligibility
Award may only be granted once per academic year and only after or at the same time the graduate student applies for funding from their department and/or Graduate School.
How to Apply
Click the apply button below to access the online funding application.
If your proposal includes travel to an elevated risk country, you will need to submit a request to ITART to travel. In the event that you receive Einaudi travel grant funds, the award will not be released until you complete the ITART application process. You are strongly encouraged to have a back-up plan for your project in the event that your ITART application is denied, or if the country to which you are traveling should become an elevated risk country subsequent to receiving your travel grant.
Questions
Contact the Program Manager (lacs@cornell.edu) if you have questions.
Additional Information
Payal Seth
Graduate Student
Payal is a Ph.D. candidate in the field of Applied Economics and Management. Her work is primarily focused on development economics and applied econometrics. As a Tata-Cornell Scholar, her fieldwork involves around 1000 households in 15 rural villages in India as she explores the linkages between sanitation and nutrition.
Additional Information
Michael Latham Travel Grant
Details
The Michael C. Latham Travel Award provides Cornell graduate students enrolled in a development-related field with travel support for conferences within the continental United States. These grants help cover expenses related to conference participation (travel, lodging, conference fees, etc.). Topics should be relevant to African development.
The award is named for Michael C. Latham, MD, who was professor emeritus, graduate school professor of nutritional sciences, and director of the international nutrition program at Cornell.
Eligibility
Master's and PhD students enrolled at Cornell who have been invited to present papers at professional conferences.
Amount
Awards are made on a case-by-case basis with a rolling deadline. The maximum amount awarded is $500.
How to Apply
For more information or to apply, send us an email with the particulars of the conference you wish to attend.
Additional Information
Shrey Kapoor
Graduate Student
Shrey is a PhD candidate in Development Sociology, and is interested in the contemporary articulations of neoliberalism, Hindutva and the dispossession of marginalized groups in favor of capital-intensive development projects, with a regional focus on Gujarat. He holds master's degrees in International Development from Sciences Po Paris and in International Affairs and Governance from the University of St. Gallen.
Additional Information
Barkha Kagliwal
Graduate Student
Barkha is a PhD student at the Department of Science and Technology Studies. In her current work Barkha examines the role of technology in changing the food system in India. She focuses on the packaged foods market to bring out the interaction between science, technology and social order.
Additional Information
Patrick Cummins
Graduate Student
Patrick is a PhD student in Asian literature, religion, and culture, who works as an intellectual historian of Sanskrit knowledge systems. His primary areas of interest are epistemology (Nyāya), scriptural hermeneutics of the Vedas (Mīmāṃsā), Sanskrit's indigenous grammatical tradition (Vyākaraṇa), and Sanskrit poetics (Alaṅkāraśāstra).
Additional Information
Vincent Burgess
Graduate Student
Vincent is a PhD candidate in the Asian Religions doctoral program of the Department of Asian Studies. He has received a 2016-17 Fulbright Student Fellowship to conduct his research over the next year in India. His research is currently focused on discourses of renunciation and environmentalism against contemporary, north Indian religious traditions, particularly how such discourses have intersected with various conceptions and articulations of modernity.