Deadline- 20 May 2013
Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity has been announced for Native American Crime, Victimization, and Justice Studies. This opportunity is funded by The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ). The goal of this program is to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science. The program offers scientists an opportunity to participate full-time on research addressing tribal crime, victimization, and justice issues relevant to the work of NIJ and public policy. This solicitation is expected to further the Department’s mission by facilitating collaboration between academic scholars and government researchers.
The mission of this solicitation is to provide support for NIJ’s Violence Against Indian Women (VAIW) Program. Working with other Federal, State, local, and tribal stakeholders, NIJ has developed a program of research that will: (1) produce a deeper understanding of the issues faced by Native American women in tribal communities; (2) evaluate the response to violence against American Indian (AI) and Alaskan Native (AN) women at all levels of government; and (3) help formulate public policies and crime-prevention strategies to decrease the incidence of violent crimes against AI and AN women.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- NIJ is authorized to make grants to, or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with States (including territories), units of local government (including federally recognized Indian tribal governments as determined by the Secretary of the Interior), nonprofit and for-profit organizations (including tribal nonprofit or for-profit organizations), institutions of higher education (including tribal institutions of higher education), and certain qualified individuals. Individual applicants must be individuals who demonstrate the financial and administrative capacity to manage the award; as well as the desire, knowledge, and ability to execute successfully assigned tasks and deliverables. For-profit organizations must agree to forgo any profit or management fee.
- The ideal candidate is a U.S. citizen who has recently graduated (within the last five years), or will be graduating by the fellowship start date, from a research-based doctoral program (in a discipline relevant to the mission of NIJ) from a university that is fully accredited by one of the regional institutional accreditation commissions recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
For more information, visit grants.gov and search by funding opportunity number.NIJ-2013-3491
