Minority Fellowship Program
MFP & Graduate Departments
MFP provides a pre-doctoral training program that delivers national coordination for minority students, especially those engaged in mental illness, mental disorders, and/or drug and alcohol abuse research in institutions of higher education throughout the U.S. From recruitment and placement to training, mentoring, and monitoring, MFP offers graduate students support that complements and extends the education and professional development provided by their home departments. MFP takes seriously the need to train and mentor minority graduate students in mental disorders and to mobilize sociologists in graduate departments and research settings to make this ambition a reality.
In addition to providing financial support, MFP works with its Fellows and their faculty mentors to help prepare the Fellow for a research career, especially in the areas supported by NIMH and NIDA. Also, MFP plans workshops and paper sessions at scholarly meetings, offers travel support to scientific conferences, and fosters the development of formal and informal networks for Fellows in the sociology of mental illness and disorders.
MFP does not select schools for applicants, or place students in particular graduate programs. Students are encouraged to examine and apply to doctoral programs in departments with strong research programs in the sociology of mental illness and disorders as early as possible.
