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Deadline: Fellowship applications are distributed to designated universities in October. January 3, 2013 Campus Deadline
Length: One Year, renewable up to three years total
Comment: Liebmann Fellowships are to be awarded to doctoral students at any stage of their programs who have outstanding undergraduate records, can demonstrate financial need, and are U.S. citizens. The fellowships cover the costs of tuition and will provide a stipend of $18,000, in order that the fellow may devote full time to his or her program of study. Awards are renewable and can fund students for a maximum of three years, although fellows must request renewal funds for each subsequent year. Awards will be announced in late spring.
URL: http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/liebmann/index.html
PLEASE NOTE: You must apply for this fellowship through your department. Each department may nominate one student to the University's selection committee. The selection committee will select three nominations from the University to the Liebmann Fund. Instructions will be emailed through departments in late fall.
Length: One Year
Comments: The University of Chicago is a nominating institution for applicants to the Luce Scholars Program. The program is aimed at a group of highly qualified young Americans in a variety of professional fields. It is unique among American-Asian exchanges in that it is intended for young leaders who have had no prior experience of Asia and who might not otherwise have an opportunity in the normal course of their careers to come to know Asia or their Asian counterparts. The program provides stipends and internships for fifteen to eighteen young Americans to live and work in Asia each year.
ELIGIBILITY: Candidates must be American citizens with at least a bachelor's degree, or who expect to receive one before they participate in the program. They must be in good health and under the age of 30. Each should have a clearly defined career interest, strong leadership ability, a high academic record, and a potential for professional accomplishment within a specific field. Any professional field (except Asian Studies and International Affairs) will be considered. The competition is also open to recipients of more advanced degrees who have not yet reached the age of 30.
Those wishing to apply must visit http://ceas.uchicago.edu/funding/Funding_Luce.shtml to fill out the application forms and submit them to the Center for East Asian Studies.
URL: http://ceas.uchicago.edu/funding/Funding_Luce.shtml, http://www.hluce.org/lsprogram.aspx
CSRPC Dissertation Fellowship 2012-2013
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago invites applications for the 2012-2013 Dissertation Fellowship, which begins October 1, 2012 and ends June 30, 2013. Qualified Ph.D. candidates at the University of Chicago from all disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Description: The goal of the fellowship is to enable an outstanding doctoral student interested in the study of race and ethnicity to devote his or her full energies to the completion of the dissertation. The fellowship carries a stipend of $21,000 for the academic year, a $1000 travel and research budget, and will cover advanced residence tuition, fees, and basic university student health insurance, if needed. The successful applicant will be provided with an office and use of a computer at the Center. The fellow will be expected to be in residence during the award year, present his or her work at one of the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop meetings and to actively participate in the workshop and other activities sponsored by the Race Center.
CSRPC Graduate Research and Travel Grants2012-2013
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago invites applications for Graduate Research and Travel Grants for the academic year 2012-2013. Qualified graduate students at the University of Chicago from all disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Grant Description: The goal of the grant is to support the research efforts of outstanding graduate students interested in the study of race and ethnicity. The grant may only be used for expenses associated with a clearly defined research project. Activities that will be considered for funding include, but are not limited to, travel-related expenses (transportation and lodging) associated with field or primary archival research, transcription costs, duplication services, or the acquisition of data sets for quantitative analysis. Preference will be given to dissertation-related research, however, other projects will also be considered. Grants of up to $2,500 will be awarded to successful candidates.
Eligibility: Open to University of Chicago graduate or professional students in good standing.
CSRPC GRADUATE LECTURESHIPS IN RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES
Call for proposals for 2012-2013 courses
The College and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture is calling for applications by advanced graduate students to teach one undergraduate course of their own design on topics related to race and ethnic studies. Courses in any related topic or thematic may be proposed. The Center is especially interested in courses that posit race and processes of racialization in comparative and transnational frameworks; highlight the intersection of race and ethnicity with other identities (gender, class, sexuality and nationality); and/or interrogate social and identity cleavages within racialized communities.
Eligibility: Advanced graduate students (Ph.D. candidates with at least one chapter of the dissertation written) in any discipline at the University of Chicago are encouraged to apply.
Visit our website for details http://csrpc.uchicago.edu
• six (6) $1500 François Furet Travel Grants
• one (1) $5000 De la Vauvre Summer Research Fellowship
• one (1) Sciences Po Exchange Fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year
More information is available here. Online applications may be submitted (and supporting materials upload) here.
Application deadline is April 30, 2012.
The Martin Marty Center (MMC) of the Divinity School will appoint a set of twelve Junior Fellows for the 2012-2013 academic year. Ph.D. candidates from the Divinity School, and Ph.D. candidates from the Division of the Humanities or the Division of the Social Sciences whose dissertation examines a topic or topics in religion, are eligible for appointment. An application consisting of a cover letter, a CV, a copy of the dissertation prospectus, and a letter of support from the thesis advisor about the thesis is due to Terri Owens, Dean of Students in the Divinity School, no later than Monday, April 16th. The prospectus must include a statement of progress to date on the dissertation. Awards will be announced in early May.
Funded initially through a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Junior Fellows program aims to assist its members in the successful completion of their dissertation, and in the initial transition to professional life as public intellectuals. Directed by Divinity School faculty, the program is organized around a year-long seminar which has as its main business the sharing and discussion of the dissertations. Since the first public of the scholar is arguably the classroom, Junior Fellows teach a course on an aspect of their dissertation at a local college or university, and these experiences are also part of the shared discourse of the seminar. In the spring of each year, the culminating event of the seminar is a day-long conference in which the Fellows share a précis of their dissertation research with a cohort of professional people who are not scholars of religion, to test their mettle in communicating complex ideas to an educated and interested audience.
The seminar thus challenges students, as they complete their dissertations, to step back from the immediacies of specialized research to ask themselves, and one another, how that research will contribute to the institutions and the society in which they will pursue their scholarly vocations.
Because of this agenda, successful applicants will have already made significant process in the research and writing of the dissertation and will be poised, programmatically and by disposition, to participate vigorously in all aspects of this work. Alumni of the seminar describe the experience as having had a seminal influence on their careers.
Students from the Humanities or the Social Sciences receive a $4,000 stipend.
Junior Fellows will be required to attend all seminar sessions as scheduled.
All questions should be directed to Terri Owens, Dean of Students in the Divinity School, at tdowens@uchicago.edu, 773-702-8217.
Length: 2 quarters (6 months)
Comments: The Division of the Social Sciences invites applications from advanced graduate students in the Division who will have been admitted to PhD candidacy before Autumn 2012, whose dissertation projects require study and research in Paris and would benefit substantially from the resources of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. The student selected to represent the Division of Social Sciences will spend up to six months (two quarters) at the École under the supervision of a member of the École faculty. The award provides for airfare, registration fees at the École and a stipend.
Application Materials:
1. Dissertation-Year Application form (available online at: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/current/forms.shtml)
2. Research proposal and justification of no more than 10 pages (double-spaced)
3. Timetable for completion of degree
4. Letter of recommendation from the dissertation adviser
5. Curriculum Vitae
The Dean of Students office will add an official transcript to the application.
Deadline: All applicants from the Division of the Social Sciences must meet with Associate Dean of Students Kelly Therese Pollock for a discussion of appropriateness and timing before submitting an application. All application materials should be submitted in Foster 107 or to ssd-fellowships@uchicago.edu no later than Friday, April 27, 2012.
If you have questions or would like to arrange an appointment to discuss the Exchange Fellowship, please contact Ms. Pollock at kpollock@uchicago.edu or at 795-3238.
Comments: The Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship is awarded annually by the Ryerson Fellowship Committee to graduate students who are studying Greek and Roman archaeology. The Fellowship supports primarily travel to study excavations and collections of classical antiquities. In case the candidates in any one year are not sufficiently advanced in their work to profit by study abroad, the Fellowship may be awarded for study in residence at the University. In the absence of qualified candidates for either a traveling or a residence grant in Greek and Roman archaeology, the Fellowship will be available to graduate students who are studying Near Eastern archaeology.
Applications for a travel grant should consist of a clear and concise statement of purpose and a budget specifying the expected cost of transportation, housing and meals. Applications for a grant in residence should provide a detailed plan of work for the period of the grant. All applications should include a transcript and letter from the student's advisor (or a professor well-acquainted with the student's work and the proposed plan of research). At the end of their term, Fellows are asked to submit a short report to the Committee.
The deadline for receipt of applications is Wednesday, March 21. ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY to the Humanities Dean of Students Office. Proposals and faculty recommendation letters should be addressed to the Ryerson Fellowship Selection Committee, and emailed to Michael Beetley at mrbeetle@uchicago.edu. Applicants should also request an official University transcript to be sent to mrbeetle@uchicago.edu.
Length: One Year
Comments: The Division of the Social Sciences is pleased to invite nominations for the Hanna Holborn Gray Advanced Fellowships in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. This award, established in 2005-2006, is made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is designated to support our very best graduate students in the second half of their graduate program at the University. The grant is made in honor of Mrs. Gray and is given in recognition of her dedicated efforts to improve and sustain graduate education at the University and beyond and of her own notable achievements as a scholar.
One fellowship will be awarded each year in the Humanities Division and one in the Social Sciences Division with the latter selected from the humanistic Social Sciences departments (Anthropology, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, Comparative Human Development, History, Political Science, Social Thought, and Sociology).
Each department may nominate one student who is currently in the fourth year of study. Departments set internal deadline and procedures individually. Nominations should be submitted by Friday, April 13. Announcements of the winners will be made in mid-May.
URL: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/pdf/ssddos/Gray_Announcement_2012.pdf
Length: One Year
Comments: The Markovitz Dissertation Fellowship provides up to two annual awards for dissertation write-up in the amount of $20,000 (plus tuition, required fees, and university student health insurance, Basic option) to a student whose dissertation topic explores some aspect of the linkages and influences between social and economic behavior. The research should consider from a disciplinary perspective the connection between the social/cultural and commercial spheres of life. Ph.D. candidates in any of the Social Sciences programs are eligible. Each department should determine its own internal deadline and review procedure, and submit one nomination by April 13, 2012.
URL: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/pdf/ssddos/Markovitz%20Announcement%202012-13.pdf
Length: One Year
Comments: The University will provide funding for one Harper Dissertation-Year Fellowship in the Division of the Social Sciences in 2012-13. Harper fellowships constitute one of the highest honors given to our graduate students and the competition for this single award will be rigorous. The nominees should be truly outstanding. Nominations should be submitted only for those students who are most likely to complete the degree within the period of fellowship tenure. Harper dissertation fellowships will provide tuition, fees, and University Basic student health insurance plus an academic-year stipend of $20,000.
URL: http://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/pdf/ssddos/Harper%20Announcement%202012-2013.pdf
