The UIC Institute for the Humanities will offer two Dissertation Fellowships for advanced graduate students. Institute for the Humanities Dissertation Fellowships are intended for students who have largely completed their dissertation research and are entering the writing stage of the process. Applicants must be full-time graduate students in good academic standing. The year-long Dissertation Fellowships provide stipends of $15,000 for a twelve-month academic year, or $1250 per month. This includes a tuition and fee waiver, including the differential service fee (if any).
Dissertation Fellows will be expected to be in residence at the Institute, to present a public lecture on their work, and to participate fully with the Faculty Fellows in seminars and workshops. Proposals will be reviewed by the Institute for the Humanities 2011 Executive Committee. In response to questions about the appropriateness of particular projects for fellowships, the Institute has adopted the broad definition used by the National Endowment for the Humanities: “the term humanities includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following disciplines: history; philosophy; languages; linguistics; literature; archaeology; jurisprudence; the history, theory, and criticism of the arts; ethics; comparative religion; and those aspects of the social sciences that employ historical or philosophical approaches.”
Scholarship Application Deadline: 18 March 2011
