The Provost’s Office is pleased to announce the following pre-dissertation fellowship competition for doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences. These summer awards provide $4,000.  DUE BY 2:00PM

This fellowship program has two objectives:

• To allow students to conduct pre-dissertation research and training following completion of the first exam.
• To support the development of a dissertation research proposal suitable for submission to an external funding agency.

This program seeks to facilitate the transition from coursework to advanced individualized research. Early research awards allow students to strengthen their proposals by:

• Refining their research topic into a well-defined research problem;
•  Determining appropriate research design, methods, research locale(s), and language(s);
• Assessing project feasibility and determining necessary affiliations and approvals.