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Dissertation Completion Fellowship FAQs

Frequently asked questions :, what do i need to submit to apply for a mellon-ces dissertation completion fellowship.

In order to complete your application for a Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship, you will have to submit an online application form, which includes a short statement describing your dissertation, a Dissertation Completion plan, and the identification of three “completion milestones,” or points at which CES will check in with you if you receive a fellowship (happening roughly in September, January, and March/April). Also, you will have to request that your three faculty recommenders submit a copy of their recommendations via our online form. No paper forms or letters will be accepted. 

Am I eligible to apply for a Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship?

To be eligible for our dissertation completion fellowship, applicants must meet six criteria. First, the fellowship is intended for late-stage graduate students, who have completed most or all of their dissertation and have a reasonable expectation of completing the dissertation within the fellowship year. Secondly, they must be enrolled at a higher education institution  in the United States  that is a member of the  CES Academic Consortium . Thirdly, an applicant can have no more than one full year of dissertation work remaining at the start of the fellowship year as certified by his or her dissertation advisor. Fourthly, the applicants must have exhausted all departmental funding normally provided by his or her institution. Fifthly, applicants must be working on a topic in European Studies and from within one of the many disciplines that make up the Humanities. Sixthly, all applicants must be US citizens or green card holders.

If your institution is not currently a member of the  CES Academic Consortium , you are encouraged to apply early in the application season so that every effort may be made to enroll your institution in the consortium and thus establish your eligibility by the application deadline.

  Is there a particular year in graduate school targeted by this fellowship ?

No. But because the Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship aims to help late-stage graduate students, applications received from graduate students years four and below will be automatically disqualified.

Do I need to be a member of CES to apply for this fellowship? Does my university?

No. Although membership in CES is an eligibility requirement to win this award, if you are not affiliated with a member institution at the time of your application, CES will make every effort to reach out to your institution and encourage them to join CES’ Academic Consortium. If your institution declines membership, your application will be deemed invalid. To see if your institution is already a member,  click here . If you have further questions regarding membership, contact us at  [email protected] .

Is my country or area of interest included in “European Studies”?

Odds are, yes! CES funds projects related to Europe broadly defined, including areas such as Turkey, the UK, Russia and Eastern Europe, and Iceland. In the past, CES has even sponsored research pertaining to colonial topics, as long as Europe is a central component of the project. If you are still unsure if your research is eligible, contact CES directly for clarification.

When is the fellowship year and what is the fellowship schedule?

The Dissertation Completion Fellowship year begins in June following acceptance of the award and ends the following June. The “completion milestone” check-ins will occur at 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months, or roughly in September, January, and March/April of the fellowship year.

When will fellowship applicants be notified of the results of their applications?

CES will notify applicants of the Committee’s decision no later than the end of April. Funding will be made available immediately upon formal acceptance of the award.

What is required of Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship winners?

First and foremost, fellowship winners must complete the dissertation within one academic year after receiving the grant. Apart from that, all fellowship winners are required to write and publish a feature for CES’ online journal and present a paper at the  International Conference of Europeanists  during a year in which it is held within the United States.

What is the submission deadline for the Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion fellowship program?

All application materials must be received via the Council’s electronic application form no later than midnight local time on  January 15  of the application year. Applications via post or by hand are not accepted.

How can I learn the status of my application?

CES will not field requests for the status of individual applications. All applicants who have submitted complete applications by the  January 15  deadline will be notified if their application is incomplete within a few days of receipt. If you have submitted an application and do not receive notification by that date, please assume your application is complete or contact CES at  [email protected]  if you have concerns.

Are Fellowship winners required to attend the CES Conference?

Yes, all CES fellows are required to present their research at a CES conference and to prepare an article suitable for publication. Typically, attendance is required at the next North American conference after the fellowship year.

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Harvard Griffin GSAS provides a dissertation completion fellowship (DCF) for one academic year to eligible PhD students in the humanities and social sciences who anticipate completing their dissertations within the year. Eligibility for the DCF extends to students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences humanities and social sciences programs and most humanities and social science programs in partnership with other Harvard Schools. The DCF represents the final year of eligibility for Harvard Griffin GSAS tuition grants and fellowships.

Students in Business Administration, Business Economics, and Organizational Behavior typically complete their programs using guaranteed funding that excludes the DCF. Prior to applying, they must consult with their program’s director of graduate studies to determine if the DCF is appropriate for their individual circumstances.

Dissertation completion fellowships are available to students who have:

• completed all departmental requirements;
• completed an approved dissertation prospectus;
• completed two draft dissertation chapters (or one draft article for students in fields where the dissertation consists of three articles), confirmed by two faculty advisors, one of whom is the principal dissertation advisor.

To receive a DCF, students must review the Dissertation Completion Fellowship  and Instructions for Dissertation Completion Fellowships sections of the Harvard Griffin GSAS website and apply for all internal and external completion fellowships for which they are eligible, either from a Harvard source, such as a research center or department, or from an external funding source.

• Presidential Scholars, Graduate Prize Fellows, and Ashford Fellows are not required to apply for alternative fellowships but must complete the dissertation completion fellowship application.
• Students who receive funding from a source external to Harvard Griffin GSAS must accept that award in lieu of DCF funding. In the event that the amount of the alternate award is less than that provided by the DCF, Harvard Griffin GSAS will provide a supplement to make up the difference. In some cases, an external award bonus may be offered.
• Students should plan to utilize their DCF funding during their G5 or G6 year and no later than their G7 year. While DCF requests from students beyond the G7 year will be considered on a case-by-case basis with the recommendation of a faculty advisor, awards are not guaranteed. Students beyond the G7 year should contact Academic Programs to determine their eligibility.
• While students ordinarily take the DCF over one academic year, Harvard Griffin GSAS will consider requests to take a DCF split between the spring term of one academic year and the fall term of the subsequent academic year; students interested in this possibility should contact Academic Programs for guidance.
• While on a DCF, students may not hold a teaching appointment or other form of employment.
• Students ordinarily may not take classes while on a DCF.
• The DCF may not be combined with grants from other sources, with the exception of smaller grants. Students should contact their financial aid officer for guidance.
• Students may not hold research fellowships and DCFs concurrently. Research fellowships awarded to DCF recipients will be considered alternate completion funding, triggering a reduction to the DCF award and rendering the student ineligible for DCF funding in future years. Students interested in pursuing research fellowships are advised to withdraw their DCF applications.
• Students are expected to complete their dissertations during the completion year.
• Students who do not complete their dissertations during the DCF year may register for no more than one additional academic year of post-DCF study. During this time they are ineligible for Harvard Griffin GSAS tuition and fellowship support. They may, however, hold teaching and research appointments , apply for Emergency Funding and Parental Accomodation and Funding Support , or apply for educational loans.

Students awarded a DCF receive grant support to cover the  Harvard Griffin GSAS facilities fee (i.e. tuition for advanced doctoral students) and Harvard University Student Health Program fees.

Stipend amounts vary and are noted in the Notice of Financial Support. Once a student has been awarded a DCF, the stipend amount can be viewed in the Student Aid Portal.

Stipends are disbursed on or around the first day of the month, August through May.

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Dissertation Support Granted to Two Graduate Students Through RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship

The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute announces the Spring 2024 recipients of the RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship. A fellowship designed to support current Texas A&M doctoral students complete their dissertation or some significant component thereof.

RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship

The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) and the Carlos H. Cantú Endowment & Scholarship Fund have once again collaborated to offer a fellowship opportunity for current doctoral students at Texas A&M University. The RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship, on its fourth award cycle, is made to assist in the completion or support the significant component of the dissertation. Both recipients will receive up to $5,000 for roughly one calendar year.

The fellowship funds will assist grantees with pursuing opportunities to advance their dissertation for research infrastructure, fieldwork, travel to archives, participant incentives, and other pertinent research expenses. It also provides graduate students with a chance to develop their grant-writing skills which are key to pivoting into careers in research and industry.

“We’re proud to give assistance to students whose earnest work will impact academia and the public alike. Work like theirs speaks to the institute’s mission to contribute meaningfully to race and ethnic studies,” says RESI Director, Dr. Wanzer-Serano .

Meet the RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellows

RESI and the Carlos H. Cantú Endowment & Scholarship Fund congratulate Hannah Bowling, doctoral student of English, and Vanessa Verner, doctoral student of Sociology, on their deeply personal proposals. Both RESI and the Carlos H. Cantú Endowment & Scholarship Fund are proud to support their development and provide funding for their research.

Hannah Bowling , doctoral candidate and instructor of record in the Texas A&M University’s English department, focuses in on and examines African diasporic adaptations of Shakespeare, or “Blackspeares” as articulations of the Black experience. As a scholar in premodern critical race studies, she has developed an ongoing digital humanities project: Blackspeare , which articulates a coherent praxis for teaching Shakespeare within the context of the Black experience. Blackspeare is an open-access educational resource, with designs to launch its first phase in the coming summer allowing for post-secondary educators to access supplemental course readings and activities. There are also plans for a secondary phase focusing on a digital archive of Black adaptations of Shakespeare including any texts that can be made open-access as well as reviews and ephemera from Black -authored, -produced, and -themed adaptations of Shakespeare. Through the RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship, she has received the funding to conduct archival research in institutions like the New York Public Library, Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and the UWI’s George Lamming Collection. The digital archive is ultimately intended as an asset to not only users of the Blackspeare teacher’s guide but also for scholars more broadly invested in the history of Shakespearean adaptations and the artist endeavors of the African diasporic communities When asked about the impact about her work, Bowling responded, “As of Spring 2024, there does not exist any digital archive of Black Shakespearean adaptations. In a white-dominated field like Shakespeare where systemic racism suppresses not only the creative endeavors but scholarly pursuits of non-white people, I see my work as a direct intervention within this status quo.”

Vanessa Verner , a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, is inspired by the Spiritually grounded Black women in her life. Her dissertation work focuses on such women in pastoral leadership within Black Pentecostalism which has historically been against women in such positions. Vanessa has engaged in some interdisciplinary work connecting Black rhetorics in church spaces as mechanisms of criticism against women. When she lived in Chicago, she learned about a Jurisdictional Bishop ordaining a woman as a pastor – a concept that she had been taught was “out of God’s order” within the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). This event made her curious about the impacts of a rich history of the foundational role Black women played in establishing new churches across the country, educational developments, fundraising, and civic engagement on contemporary COGIC members and church affiliates. The RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship, has given her the funding that has allowed her to expand her reach to obtain her target sample size within the 8 million+ COGIC population while balancing her teaching responsibilities and working on her dissertation by having the opportunity to work with and mentor undergraduate research assistants. Through her research, she hopes to advance knowledge on social behaviors, politics, racisms, classism, and gendered dynamics within racial homogeneous spaces for the effect of increased equity and advocacy. “The impact I hope my research will have on the academic community is to encourage race scholars to reach for the hard questions and not to be deterred from looking inward. Researching a religious space closely related to my personal experiences with church engagement and deep relational ties to friends, family and community, offers essential insight.”

The RESI-Cantú Fellow’s Research Projects

Hannah bowling.

Abstract: Hannah read Black Shakespearean afterlives, or Blackspeares, through what she term’s the “genre-race paradigm.” Through the synthesis of philosophical blackness and the racial matrix, different creative genres such as drama, film, and novels produce different constructions of racial Blackness. Many 20th century Black artist-philosophers understood racial Blackness as dyadic: some non-Black people seemed closer to Blackness than those who corporeally embodied it, generating a notion of philosophical Blackness.

Under the “genre-race paradigm,” storytelling becomes a tool for Black artist-philosophers to provide access to philosophical Blackness for their audiences. The “genre-race paradigm” is predicated on a collaborative spirit, using the intimacy (or lack thereof) constructed between text and reader/viewer for the audience to obtain philosophical Blackness. Through historical, cultural, performance-based, and textual analysis Hannah read’s the dramatic, cinematic, and narrative works of Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, Joe de Graft, Shakirah Bourne, Caryl Philips, Margo J Hendricks, and others. As artist-philosophers, these Black writers artfully employ Shakespeare’s global cultural capital from 1965 onward to engage their audiences in Black stories. By focusing on genre, she engages with Black storytelling as community- and culture-building praxis—through careful genre choices, artist-philosophers either produce or withhold access to philosophical Blackness for their audiences.

Vanessa Verner

Abstract: Historically, women in the Church of God In Christ (COGIC) have been purveyors of upward social mobility and professionalization for Black Americans. Though Black women are vital to the church’s organizational structure, the current General Board, the senior governing board of the church, does not authorize women’s pastoral ordination. However, local and jurisdictional Bishops continue to ordain women as pastors. Recognizing the organization’s disagreement between the General Board and Bishops who ordain women, my work analyzes the ways this contradiction shapes the day to day operations of the church and the viewpoints of its congregants and affiliates.

Currently holding over 5 million members, the COGIC is one of the largest religious spaces in the United States. As such, it is crucial to understand Black religious life through their viewpoints and engagements with the social dynamics of gender, race, and class politics.

Using a Black Feminist epistemological approach, Vanessa delves into how meaning-making affects gender politics within the Black Pentecostal community. Using focus groups and survey methods of members and affiliates of the COGIC, she gains their perspectives on women’s pastoral ordination and how people feel about women in the church broadly. Vanessa is expanding the literature on Black religious life and offers sociological research to provide more context about Black Pentecostals. Her work also provides a more critical insight into how contemporary gender and racial patterns within society manifest in the church over time.

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Christy Monet (Brandly), September 2023 – August 2024 Dr. Monet Brandly is a political scientist and Slavicist specializing in intellectual history as viewed from the perspectives of the history of political thought and literary studies. She conducts research and teaches in the fields of political theory, literature, and history, with a focus on Russophone political thought and its engagements with empire, liberalism, and American culture over the last two centuries. She earned her Ph.D. in both Political Science and Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago in 2023. She also holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, as well as a B.A. in Political Science from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her current book project on the family novel in Imperial Russia explores the ways in which the development of liberal thought in 19th-century Russia created space for the reimagining of both the form of the family and its role in the political—a reimagining in stark contrast to the eventual removal of the family from the political in Western liberal thought. This research is based, in part, on research undertaken in both Moscow and St. Petersburg in the archives of the Russian State Library and the Pushkin House, respectively. Her doctoral dissertation and current book project have been supported by an Alfa Fellowship, a University of Chicago Harper Dissertation-Year Fellowship, an Institute for Humane Studies Publication Accelerator Grant, and a Princeton University Press Book Proposal Grant. This is her first post-doctoral academic appointment, although she previously worked for the Moscow-based publishing house Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie (NLO) as an editorial assistant and translator during her graduate studies.

Mina Magda, September 2023 – August 2024 Dr. Magda is a scholar of Russian literature, visual art, and performance spanning the long nineteenth century and early Soviet period. Her interdisciplinary research centers politics of racial representation, gendered labor, and colonial culture. Becoming Modern: Negrophilia, Russophilia, and the Making of Modernist Paris, her current book project, examines the aesthetic interplay among modernists of the Russian and Black diasporas in Paris—namely, Josephine Baker and the Ballets Russes—the visual technologies of race-making that framed their careers, and their shared imbrication in the histories of celebrity and coloniality. She demonstrates how the comparison between Baker and the Ballets Russes helps us think of racial formation as a network of political, aesthetic, and commercial negotiations through which we can examine the limits and relational contingencies of racial self-determination, and ask at what cost conceptions of modern subjecthood were afforded. Magda received her PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University in 2023 and holds an MA in Russian and Slavic Studies from New York University. Her doctoral dissertation was supported by fellowships at the Houghton Library and Beinecke Library and the MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship.

Anastasiia Vlasenko, September 2022-August 2023 Dr. Vlasenko is a postdoctoral fellow who studies electoral politics and democratization with specialization in politics of Ukraine and Russia. Her monograph project, ‘The Electoral Effects of Decentralization: Evidence from Ukraine’ investigates how decentralization reform affects electoral mobilization and diversity in a weakly institutionalized democracy. Vlasenko is particularly interested in transitional period reforms, propaganda, legislative politics, and forecasting. Her research has been published in the Journal of Politics.  She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Florida State University in 2022, M.A. in Political Science from Florida State University in 2018, M.A. in International Relations from New York University in 2016, and M.Sc. in European Affairs from Lund University in 2013, and B.A. in Political Science from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 2011. In 2020-2021, she worked at Hertie School in Berlin as a visiting researcher. In 2014-2016, Vlasenko was a Fulbright scholar at New York University. At Florida State University, she taught courses on comparative politics and post-Soviet studies.

Margarita Kuleva, December 2022-November 2023 Dr. Kuleva is a sociologist of culture, interested in exploring social inequalities in the art world and cultural industries in Russia and the UK. Primarily, she works as an ethnographer to discover the ‘behind the scenes’ of cultural institutions to give greater visibility to the invisible workers of culture. Kuleva received her PhD in art sociology from the National Research University Higher School of Economics in collaboration with Bielefeld University in 2019. The dissertation entailed a comparative study of the careers and professional identities of young cultural workers in visual art sectors in Moscow, St Petersburg and London. Based on more than 70 in-depth interviews, it was one of the first systematic studies of post-Soviet creative labour. Some findings from these studies were recently presented in journal publications including  Cultural Studies  (2018) and  International Journal of Cultural Studies  (2019), as well as  European Journal of Cultural Studies  (2022). Her current research project,  The Right to Be Creative , focuses on hidden political struggles at contemporary Russian cultural institutions. Dr. Kuleva previously worked at National Research University Higher School of Economics as an Associate Professor and held the position of Chair of the Department of Design and Contemporary Art in St Petersburg. In 2019-2020, Kuleva was a fellow of the Center for Art, Design and Social Research (Boston, Massachusetts). As a researcher, artist, and curator, she has collaborated with a number of Russian and international cultural institutions, including Manifesta Biennale, Pushkin House in London, Boston Center for the Arts, Garage MoCA, Goethe Institute, Helsinki Art Museum, Street Art Museum, Ural Industrial Biennale and New Holland St. Petersburg.

Past Post-Doctoral Fellows

Nikolay Erofeev, March 2022-May 2022

Dr. Erofeev is an architectural historian whose work focuses on socialist architecture and urban planning. His monograph project, ‘Architecture and housing in the Comecon’ looks at architecture and urbanisation patterns produced by global socialism. Combining in-depth scrutiny of the design of the built environment with an analysis of the everyday processes of subject-making that shaped the socialist project in Mongolia, the project aims to provide a new understanding of the urban and domestic spaces produced in the Global South. Erofeev received his D.Phil (PhD) in History from the University of Oxford in 2020 where he was a Hill Foundation Scholar and his specialist degree (M.A.) in the History of Art from the Moscow State University in 2014. His doctoral project discussed the design and production of prefabricated mass housing in the Soviet Union and argued the architectural story of this understudied ‘bureaucratic modernism’ represents a much more creative and influential development in the history of modern architecture as a whole. Erofeev had academic appointments at Manchester Metropolitan University where he was teaching Master of Architecture dissertations. Erofeev is currently conducting research at the University of Basel as a postdoctoral fellow supported by the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship.

Jennifer Flaherty, September 2020-August 2021

Dr. Flaherty is a postdoctoral fellow specializing in nineteenth- and twentieth- century Russian literature, culture and intellectual history, with current research interests in Hegel’s influence on Russian thought as well as labor theory. Her book project on representations of peasants investigates how the stylistic innovations of nineteenth-century Russian literature express the tensions of modernity that lie at the heart of its agrarian myth. She received her Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley in 2019, her M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago in 2010, and her B.A. in Philosophy from Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She’s had academic appointments as a visiting assistant professor in the department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William of Mary, and as a lecturer at in the Slavic department at UC Berkeley. Flaherty has conducted research as an American Councils Fellow in Moscow and with Harvard’s Institute for World Literature. Her doctoral dissertation received support from UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for Humanities. She has a forthcoming article in The Russian Review and has published in Tolstoy Studies Journal and PMLA.

Nataliia Laas, September 2022-August 2023 Dr. Laas specializes in political economy, consumer society, gender, the history of the social sciences, and environmental history in the Soviet Union. She currently works on a book manuscript, provisionally titled A Soviet Consumer Republic: Economic Citizenship and the Economy of Waste in the Post-WWII Soviet Union. This project departs from the standard economy-of-shortages narrative and offers a different dimension, an “economy of waste,” to describe Soviet consumption. It argues that after World War II and especially with the onset of Cold War competition with the West, in addition to periodic shortages the Soviet state regularly confronted a new challenge: glutted markets, overproducing factories, and excess commodities. Unlike shortages that were often vindicated by the official Bolshevik ideology as the people’s sacrifice on the road to the country’s industrialization and economic growth, excess and waste were endemic to the malfunctioning of a command economy but far more difficult for authorities to explain and justify. By focusing on the emergence of socialist market research and consumer studies, the book explores how the economy of waste reshaped relationships between the state and its citizens. Laas received her PhD in History from Brandeis University in 2022. Her doctoral dissertation was supported by a Harriman Institute Carnegie Research Grant and a Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship from Brandeis, among others.

Emily Laskin, September 2022-August 2023

Dr. Laskin specializes in the literature of Central Asia, working extensively in Russian and Persian. Her current book project,  No Man’s Land: The Geopoetics of Modern Central Asia , focuses on the literature of the so-called Great Game, the Russo-British rivalry for influence in Central Asia, putting Russian and British imperial writing on Central Asia in dialogue with contemporaneous Persian literature published across the region, from Kabul, to Bukhara, to Istanbul. Laskin’s recent work on the literature of the Great Game appears in  Novel: A Forum on Fiction , and she is an editor of the forthcoming volume  Tulips in Bloom: An Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature . She received her Ph.D. in 2021 in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and also holds an M.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from Columbia University. Her doctoral dissertation was supported by a Mellon/ACLS fellowship and a Berkeley Dean’s Fund grant for archival research in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Vladimir Ryzhkovskyi, November 2020-October 2021

Dr. Ryzhkovskyi studied Russian, Soviet and East European history in Ukraine, Russia, and the US, where he recently earned a PhD from Georgetown University. By foregrounding the link between empire, culture, and knowledge, Ryzhkovskyi’s research probes the place of Russia and the Soviet Union within global history, particularly in relation to forms of Western imperialism and colonialism. His current book project, Soviet Occidentalism: Medieval Studies and the Restructuring of Imperial Knowledge in Twentieth-Century Russia, explores the twentieth-century history of medieval studies in late imperial and Soviet Russia as a model for demonstrating the crucial importance of Soviet appropriation of Western culture and knowledge in the post-revolutionary reconstituting and maintaining the empire following 1917. In addition to pursuing the imperial and postcolonial theme in the history of Soviet modernity, Ryzhkovskyi has published articles and essays on the history of late imperial and Soviet education, the history of late Soviet intelligentsia, and Soviet philosophy. A volume of unpublished writings by the Soviet historian and philosopher Boris Porshnev, co-edited with Artemy Magun, is forthcoming from the European University Press in 2021.

Delgerjargal Uvsh, November 2020-October 2021

Dr. Uvsh received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2020. She conducts research and teaches primarily in the field of comparative politics, with a focus on post-Soviet politics, the political economy of natural-resource dependence, institutional and regime change, and research methods. Using Russia as a critical case, Delgerjargal’s book project, “Reversal of the Resource Curse? Negative Revenue Shocks and Development in Russia and Beyond,” develops a theory of when and how declines in natural-resource revenue (negative revenue shocks) incentivize political elites to support private business activity and reverse the “resource curse.” Delgerjargal expanded her interest in the relationship between natural resources and institutional changes in a forthcoming book chapter, where she explores the short-term effects of negative revenue shocks on political regimes. Another extension, published in Land Use Policy , analyzes novel satellite data on forest-cover change in western Russian regions and shows that the dynamics of forest growth and deforestation have been different in the first versus the second decade of Russia’s transition. You can read more about Delgerjargal’s work at www.delgerjargaluvsh.com .

Sasha de Vogel, September 2021-August 2022

Dr. de Vogel studies the politics of authoritarian regimes and collective action, particularly in Russia and the post-Soviet region. Her research examines when and why autocratic regimes promise concessions to protestors, how these promises affect mobilization and their impact on policies. Her research underscores that reneging, or deliberately failing to implement concessions as promised, is a fundamental strategic dimension of concessions. Her book project focuses on protest campaigns against the Moscow City government about policy-related grievances in the mid-2010s. During this period, more protest campaigns were promised a concession than experienced a detention, yet these concessions rarely resolved protesters’ grievances. Other research interests include comparative politics, authoritarian institutions, repression, authoritarian responsiveness and urban politics. Sasha received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2021, and also holds an MA in Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Regional Studies and a BA in Slavic Studies from Columbia University. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation/Harriman Institute, among others.

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Dissertation Teaching Fellowship for Academic Diversity

Hiram College invites applications for a Dissertation Teaching Fellowship for Academic Diversity to begin August 1, 2024. The Academic Diversity Fellows Program provides structured mentoring and teaching experience for scholars committed to innovative teaching and working with a diverse undergraduate student body.

Candidates for the dissertation teaching fellowship will be graduate students who:

• Have demonstrated academic excellence and/or are inspiring instructors or researchers.
• Are able to contribute to a diverse educational community, as evidenced in personal history and experience, research goals, or the promotion of understanding among persons of different backgrounds and ideas.
• Have passed all comprehensive examinations and are at the dissertation writing stage. Preference will be given to candidates with undergraduate teaching experience.
• Are enrolled in an academic program in the following fields: art and design; computer science; crime, law and justice; management; marketing; sociology; and statistics.

The successful candidate will teach two undergraduate courses per year in their academic area and/or in the Urgent Challenge Seminar series (Hiram's first-year program). Fellows are also expected to deliver two College-wide lectures each year which reflects progress on their dissertation or related research-one presentation in Fall and one in Spring. They are also to participate in the life of the College and the community. We wish to emphasize, however, that our highest priority for the Fellow is the completion of the dissertation.

Hiram will provide fellows a stipend of $37,000 for nine months (mid-August through mid-May), health benefits, and a small moving allowance. Hiram will also provide funding for the candidate to attend one professional conference during the year. The fellow will be equipped with an office, an iPad, and office supplies. The position is renewable for up to three years.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to send the requested documents to HR@hi ram.edu or apply below. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

• A cover letter,
• Curriculum vitae,
• Dissertation abstract and timeline for completing the dissertation.
• A one- or two-page personal statement discussing how your past, planned, or potential contributions or experiences relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion will contribute to a diverse educational community and support the College's commitment to fostering and promoting increased cultural and ethnic diversity. Please comment specifically on your capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds, your sustained personal engagement with communities that are underrepresented in the academy, and your ability to bring this asset to learning, teaching, and scholarship at the college and university level.
• The names and contact information for three references, including the dissertation advisor.
• Copies of transcripts from all institutions conferring degrees earned. Official copies of transcripts will be required upon hiring.

Hiram College is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to Excellence through Diversity !

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Council for European Studies - SAE-CES Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship

The Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) and the Council for European Studies (CES) invite eligible graduate students with a focus on European Anthropology to apply for the 2024 Anthropology of Europe Pre-Dissertation Fellowship. The SAE is the section of the American Anthropological Association that promotes the anthropological study of European societies and culture, encouraging connections between scholars working in Europe. Each fellowship includes a $5,000 stipend to fund two months’ research in Europe, and travel support as well as a registration fee waiver for attending and presenting at the  International Conference of Europeanists  in 2025.

Deadline: March 24, 2024

The Anthropology of Europe Pre-Dissertation Fellowship is intended to fund fellows’ first research project in Europe. Applicants must:

• be enrolled in a doctoral program at a university that is a member of the  Council for European Studies Academic Consortium ;
• not have begun substantial dissertation research in Europe
• not be near completion of the dissertation.

Barring exceptional circumstances, students who have already received comparable support for pre-dissertation research will not be considered eligible. 

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• The Center for African and African American Studies’ Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Award

The Center for African & African American Studies’ Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Award is for doctoral candidates from any campus-wide program, department, or college who are active participants in the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Expenditures from the Reeves Dissertation Award can be used for, but are not limited to, stipends, support for research, creative work, and other activities that support students’ doctoral dissertation development, and other costs related to students’ dissertation completion.

Meet Our Current Alice Cleora Reeves Edowed Dissertation Fellow

Call for Applications : Opens February 15, 2024, and Closes April 15, 2024.

Deadline: April 15, 2024. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

Award Amount : $5,000

Eligibility

Doctoral students from any campus-wide program, department, or college who have advanced to candidacy (D status) and who are active participants in the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Selection Criteria

The selection committee will base their decisions on the following criteria:

1. The quality of the applicant's doctoral dissertation research or creative work project.

2. The quality of the applicant’s CV (presentations, publications, creative work, awards, etc.).

3. Probability of significant doctoral dissertation development and/or completion within the award period (the higher, the better).

4. Other dissertation awards the applicant has already received (the fewer, the better).

Application Procedures

Applicants must submit #s 1-5 below in a single .pdf by the deadline April 15, 2024 to the CAAAS Director, Reiland Rabaka, at [email protected] . Make “ Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Award Application” the email subject line when submitting application materials. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

1. Cover Letter (Please provide personal information [name, email address, department affiliation, student ID], and why this award would be timely.)

3. Proof of admission to Ph.D. candidacy (e.g., letter of admission to candidacy)

4. A synopsis of the dissertation (750 words maximum)

5. A list of other research or creative work grants (internal or external) to which the applicant has applied and all other forms of financial support the applicant has received since they have become ABD—specifically any internal and external awards the applicant has received or is expected to receive to aid them in their dissertation research and writing.

Expectations

1. Recipients will be asked to submit a letter notifying the CAAAS upon completion of their dissertation. In addition, by May 1, please email [email protected] a 300-600 word summary (double-spaced, 12-point font) of how the CAAAS Reeves Dissertation Award aided in furthering your dissertation research.

2. Acknowledgment of the Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS) is required on all promotional/published materials for projects funded by the CAAAS. Use this language for credit: “This project was supported, in part, by a grant from the Center for African & African American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.”

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OFA: 2024-25 Gatzert Child Welfare Fellowship for Dissertation Writing – apply by 4/16

April 4, 2024

We would appreciate your assistance in letting students know that the application for the 2024-25  Gatzert Child Welfare Fellowship for Dissertation Writing  is now open in MyGrad and is  due on Tuesday, April 16, 2024  at 12 PM (noon) PST.

FOR:  the final stages of writing a Ph.D. dissertation that contributes to the lives of children with disabilities

HOW MUCH : one quarter of UW state tuition and fees,  GAIP insurance , and a stipend at the regular  Predoctoral TA II rate  (currently $3,0766 per month). 

WHEN:  The fellowship may be used in  summer 2024, autumn 2024, winter 2025 or spring 2025.  The choice of the quarter will be left to the discretion of the student.

WHO CAN APPLY:  students in any academic discipline who:

• will have achieved doctoral candidate status by April 2024;
• have demonstrated progress on the dissertation which indicates completion by the end of spring quarter 2025 or sooner;
• are in a tuition-based graduate program (students in fee-based programs are not eligible);
• have not received another dissertation writing award from the Graduate School.

CRITERIA:  significance of the dissertation research to supporting the lives of children with disabilities; student is both ready and in need of a full quarter to work on writing the dissertation.

2023 Gatzert Child Welfare Awardees

Contact the Office of Fellowships and Awards:  [email protected]  or 206.543.7152.

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