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Next registration & application deadline: January 14, 2008.

About the Fellowships
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
About the Application Process
Download Paper Application Forms
Notification
For More Information

FAQs

About the Fellowships
The Humanities Center selects approximately eight advanced Stanford graduate students each year as Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellows. Geballe fellows have offices at the Center, and participate in seminars, workshops, and daily lunches.

The School of Humanities and Sciences and the Humanities Center in collaboration also select approximately twenty graduate students to receive Whiting, Mellon, and Lieberman Dissertation Fellowships.

The Geballe, Mellon, and Whiting Dissertation Fellowships are awarded to advanced graduate students, based on accomplished work of the highest distinction, and on the promise of further outstanding achievements in the Humanities.

The Lieberman Fellowship also requires a distinguished record of university teaching.

Preference in selection is given to graduate students who have completed their coursework, teaching, and degree requirements, including their Ph.D. Orals examination (except in departments where this examination is a dissertation defense).

Individuals who are members of traditionally under-represented groups are encouraged to apply.

Fellowship Descriptions »

 

Eligibility and Selection Criteria
Please note that application materials, eligiblity and selection criteria are different for each fellowship; these are also subject to change each academic year.

About the Application Process

Online Application System: applications may be submitted entirely online via our web-based application system. Access to the online application system will open on our website by early September. Applications must be received at the Center by January 14th, 2008.

Application Content & Format: Applications for Dissertation Fellowships include the following parts:

1) Information about the applicant
*Contact information (e.g. name, address, email)
* Education / Degree Milestones (e.g. degree dates; dissertation title; dates of oral exam, dissertation committee, proposal approval date)
* Names of Referees (limit of two; one must be the dissertation advisor)

2) A curriculum vitae (C.V.)

3) Current (i.e. January 2008) unofficial transcript (AXESS upload or printout)

4) Timetable for your completion of the degree

5) A statement of significance. Please explain the significance of your project to knowledge in the humanities, broadly considered (100-word maximum).

6) A brief description (not more than 1,000 words) of a research project.

7) Reference letters (two)

8) Evidence of Teaching (For Lieberman applicants only)
*Title and course numbers of courses taught
*Year and quarter courses were taught
*Number of students enrolled in the courses
*Course evaluation summary sheet for each class taught
*Teaching statement (1-2 pages)

Reference Letters: letters must be received at the Center by the application deadline. Consideration of letters received after that date cannot be guaranteeed.  Referees must send reference letters directly to the Center or electronically through our online application system. Applicants whose referees submit letters online will be automatically notified when the letters are submitted, should they wish this. Referees designated by applicants as prefering online submission will be automatically notified of how to submit their reference letter using our online system.

Please direct people who wish to submit their letter of reference via email or on paper to the Dissertation Fellowships Reference Form, which may be download and printed from our website.

Download Paper Application Forms
Although we encourage online applications for our fellowships, applicants for the Stanford Humanities Dissertation Fellowship competition may instead download and complete a paper application, and send seven copies to be received by the application deadline.

<<click here to download paper application form

Notification
Applicants will be notified when their applications have been received, and will be notified of the fellowship competition outcome in April.

For More Information
For further information, contact the Fellowship Administrator, Robert Barrick.