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According to my proposed topic and my advisor’s suggestion, I focused on four sources of grants in my investigation: libraries containing my desired files, the U.S. military, National Sciences Foundation (NSF), and American Anthropological Association (AAA). From their websites, I also found several related grants offered by private research organizations or other academic communities. The AAA does not have any appropriate research fellowship for me as it almost exclusively funds cultural anthropology and fieldworks. Consequently, I will only cover the first three categories of research grants as well as eligible grants from other organizations. This report will be arranged by individual funder.

The first group of funds is from libraries, especially

the Eisenhower library, which I expect to have a significant portion of my desired sources, only has a $1,000 travel grant for stay in Abilene, KS. In the Kennedy Library, two short-term research fellowships are available: (1) Marjorie Kolver Research Fellowship for scholars in foreign intelligence and JFK presidency, (2) Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Research Fellowship for studies in JFK’s Western Hemisphere foreign policies, racial justice, and conservation of natural resources. Both fellowships ($2,500) are awarded once a year and require potential winners to stay in Boston. The Johnson Library also only offers a small travel grant (Moody Research Grant, $600 to 3,000) to visitors staying in Austin, TX for about one week. This grant has few limitations except that the research product it funds should not be used for any political purpose. At last, the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs in Texas A&M University managed by the Bush Sr. Library endows two more travel grants to scholars once a year ($500 to 2,500): O’Donnell Grant and Korean Grant. Despite their different names, the requirement and expectation of them are exactly the same. They do not require researchers’ residence at College Station, TX as long as they consult the collections in that library. Some special expectations are timely submission of research report to the library and bringing new available research materials to

The first one is Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship provided by Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (one year duration, $25,000, about 20 winners per year). One aspect of studies this grant supports is the ethical implications of political decisions and diplomacy, which I plan to discuss to great details when I analyze the rationale of repatriating the bodies of soldiers lost several decades ago. The second one is Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program funding projects in international conflict management and peacebuilding. I may apply this ten-month $20,000 grants to study how the repatriation of remains facilitate or undermine the U.S. reconciliation with ex-enemies.

The last grant I propose to apply is Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships offered by the American Council of Learned Societies. This grant funds feasible research in all disciplines in humanities but all applicants must be able to finish their dissertation within one year. Additional criteria include that the graduate students should be within six years in their Ph.D. program and they should not hold another fellowship simultaneously. I would like to consider this financial aid (up to $30,000) in my fifth