Courtesy of HoMana Pawiki and Kelly Perce:

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Graduate Fellowships Available from Community Forestry and Environmental
Research Partnerships

Southwest Communities and Natural Resource Fellowships

The Community Forestry and Environmental Research Partnerships Program
provides fellowships to graduate students with diverse academic backgrounds
- from the social to environmental sciences. Fellows typically study the
political, cultural, economic and environmental forces that bear on the
relationships between communities and the environment.

The Southwest Communities and Natural Resource Fellowships support graduate
students doing participatory research with Native American communities. The
goal of the fellowships is to assist these communities in developing
socially just and ecologically sustainable natural resource practices.

The program accepts proposals for research dealing with community
participation in sustainable natural resource management, social and
economic justice in environmental management, community ability to maintain
traditional lifeways and land uses in the face of outside and/or competing
interests, integrating scientific and traditional knowledge in environmental
restoration, and other topics relevant to natural resource issues in Native
American communities.


Fellowship Details:
Masters fellowships provide awards of up to $7,000
Pre-Dissertation fellowships provide awards of up to $2,000
Dissertation fellowships provide awards of up to $15,000
Eligibility:
We accept applications from students at any U.S. college or university.
Students need to be enrolled in a degree-granting program at their home
institution.
Students need to be engaged in graduate research that deals directly or is
explicitly relevant to U.S. urban and/or rural communities engaged in the
sustainable management of natural resources.
Students need to be planning to conduct participatory research that actively
engages community members in the research process.
Minority and under-represented students are encouraged to apply.
Deadline/Application:
Applications must be received by February 29, 2008
Applications and full program details online:
www.cnr.berkeley.edu/community_forestry

Contact Information:
Carl Wilmsen
CFERP Program Coordinator
University of California, Berkeley
101 Giannini Hall #3100
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel:  (510) 642-3431
Email: cffellow@...