The mission of the National Academy of Education (NAEd) is to advance high-quality education research and its use in policy and practice. The NAEd accomplishes this by fostering the next generation of scholars through funding and professional development opportunities.
The Dissertation Fellowship Program aims to support a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. Offering $27,500 fellowships, this program supports individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. It is a highly competitive program designed to identify talented researchers conducting dissertation research related to education. This year, 35 fellowships will be awarded. The fellowship is open to a variety of academic disciplines and professional fields, indicating that although the dissertation topic must centrally concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field, spanning across fields such as anthropology, architecture, art history, and many others.