The SPA / Robert Lemelson Foundation Fellowships are designed to provide graduate students working in the field of psychological anthropology with funding to pursue exploratory research for planning their doctoral dissertation research and /or methods training to prepare for their doctoral dissertation research. Research projects supported by the funding should have the potential of advancing the field of psychological anthropology.
The funding cannot be used to collect data. This funding is explicitly for exploratory research to plan doctoral dissertation research, not for collection of data for broader projects. Preference is given to applicants conducting exploratory research abroad.