Open International Scholarships

The Kellogg and Kroc Institutes announce a Research Grants Program for undergraduate students at Notre Dame. The grants are intended for juniors whose interests include a clear international dimension preferably related to the Kellogg Institute’s themes. Several grants of up to $4,000* each will be awarded for research abroad or, if demonstrably appropriate, in the United States. Applicants are required to notify the Kellogg Institute of any funding received from another source. If duplicate funding is received, the Institute may adjust the award.

• In exceptional, justifiable cases, the Kellogg Institute may increase this amount

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Eligibility
Students must be in their junior year of studies at Notre Dame and be in good academic standing. They must have the endorsement and pledge of supervision from a faculty member. Freshman and sophomores who are Latin American Studies minors may apply for an Experiencing Latin America Fellowship.

Recipients will be expected to submit a report, approved by the supervising faculty, no later than September 1 of the award year.
Thematic Priorities

The Kellogg Institute’s research reflects commitments to democracy, development, and social justice, and focuses on five priority themes.

• Democratization and the quality of democracy. The Institute studies cases of transition to democracy and explores the various aspects that affect the quality and eventual institutionalization of new democracies. It seeks to clarify the factors that enhance democratic governability, accountability, and responsiveness and the expansion and consolidation of human rights and of the quality of public life.
• Growth and development. This theme considers, using an interdisciplinary approach, the processes and policies that potentially influence national and regional economic growth in the context of an increasingly global economy. Research considerations include the roles of economic, political, social, and cultural institutions, government policies, market structures, distributional issues, international trade and finance, and economic geography in explaining economic growth, development, and welfare.
• Religion and Society. This theme focuses on past and present trends in Catholicism and other religious traditions (primarily but not exclusively in Latin America) regarding the social and cultural relevance of churches, the role of religion in popular cultures, and the influence of churches and religious belief upon political, social, and cultural change.
• Social movements and organized civil society. The Institute studies women’s movements, labor unions, peasant organizations, Christian communities, popular culture, and other grassroots expressions, in relation to their various conceptions of citizenship and of social and political inclusion and exclusion, and in relation to types of political regime, patterns of socioeconomic development, and characteristics of labor markets.
• Public policies for social justice. From the perspective of various academic disciplines, the Institute analyzes the impact of economic factors and government policies on social equity. It studies and fosters efforts to design public policies that may advance social equity without undermining economic development and the expansion of democracy.

Acknowledgements
Any publication of the student’s work resulting from this grant must include an appropriate acknowledgment of the Undergraduate Research Grants Program. Although no one form is required, we recommend the following:

This [research, et al.] is made possible in part by support from the Undergraduate Research Grants Program of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Human Research Subjects

Any project that involves the use of human subjects must be approved by the University Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects. For details of the procedure, please contact Dr. Richard Hilliard, Director of Research Compliance, The Graduate School, Room 312 Administration Building. Committee approval must be completed or pending for the program to accept a proposal, and no award will be made to a project involving human subjects without the approval of the University Committee on the Protection of Human Subjects.

Deadline:
A complete application, including all documentation, must be received by
Friday, March 2, 2007

Past Recipients

For questions about the program, please contact Holly Rivers (hrivers@nd.edu) at 631-6023
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