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Guidelines

Eligibility: 2010-2011 Awards

  1. Applicants must have advanced to Ph.D. candidacy.
  2. Applicants must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D., other than the dissertation (and its defense in departments where the University Oral Examination is such a defense). This includes handling any incompletes.
  3. Applicants must have a formally composed dissertation committee.
  4. Applicants must have a dissertation proposal approved by their committee.
  5. Applicants must have a strong likelihood of completing the degree within the tenure of the fellowship.
  6. Applicants must have reached TGR status by the beginning of autumn quarter 2010-2011.
  7. Applicants must have completed supervised teaching, if required by their department, within the tenure of the fellowship.
  8. Applicants for the Mellon Fellowship must also demonstrate an exceptionally strong academic record to date and evidence that they have made and will continue to make timely progress toward completion of the degree.

Restrictions / Requirements

  1. No other employment, assistantship, or fellowship (unless specifically intended for travel or research expense) may be held concurrently. Exceptions to this restriction must be approved by the Humanities Center Director (for Geballe Fellows) or Ayodele Thomas (for Whiting, Mellon, and Lieberman Fellows).
  2. Geballe Fellows must live within ten miles of Stanford and take part in the life of the Center for the duration of their fellowship.
  3. Any applicant who has held a predoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Humanities Center is not eligible to apply for the Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship.
  4. Applicants who have not previously held a Stanford dissertation fellowship will be given the most serious consideration.
  5. Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowships are the only dissertation fellowships in the humanities that are open to applicants from the School of Education.
  6. Lieberman applicants should also provide evidence of teaching ability including a teaching statement. Please see application materials for further instructions.

Selection Criteria

A selection committee representing humanities departments and programs will review and rank the applications on the basis of the following criteria:

  1. The evidence of intellectual distinction
  2. The quality and precision of the dissertation proposal
  3. The applicant’s timely progress toward the degree
  4. The likelihood of completing the degree within the tenure of the fellowship
  5. In the case of Geballe applicants, the likelihood of the applicant contributing to, as well as benefiting from, the programs of the Humanities Center
  6. In the case of Lieberman fellowships, the applicant’s promise as a scholar, teacher, and leader in the academic community

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