Internal: March 2012 Archives
• 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.
