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Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Dissertation completion fellowships provide advanced doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences with an academic year of support to write and complete their dissertation.

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Eligible students in the humanities and social sciences are guaranteed a dissertation completion fellowship (DCF) between the G4 and G7 years and must apply for the DCF in advance of the dissertation completion year.

Before applying, students should:

• review DCF opportunities offered by Harvard research centers (see below) and search the CARAT database for DCFs offered by non-Harvard agencies
• review dissertation completion fellowships policy
• follow the instructions for dissertation completion fellowships and apply by February 9, 2024, at 11:59 p.m.

Award description and confirmation typically occurs in early May.

While there is no guarantee of a DCF beyond the G7 year, requests will be considered upon recommendation of the faculty advisor.

Instructions for departments can be found on the instructions for dissertation completion fellowships page.

Harvard Research Centers

Other dissertation completion fellowships are available through the Harvard research centers.

• Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Dissertation Completion Grants
• Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowships
• Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowships in Ethics
• Mahindra Humanities Center Mellon Interdisciplinary Dissertation Completion Fellowship
• Center for European Study Dissertation Completion Fellowship
• Radcliffe Dissertation Completion Fellowships
• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Canada Program Dissertation Research and Writing Fellowships
• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Dissertation-Writing Grants

External Dissertation Completion Fellowships 

Search the CARAT database for dissertation completion fellowships offered by non-Harvard agencies.​ Here are a couple of examples:

• American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship

Please contact the Academic Programs office with any questions.

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For Applicants | Ford Foundation Fellowships

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Applications will be accepted for a limited number of 2024-2025 dissertation, postdoctoral, and senior fellowship awards only.

Eligible applicants must have already held a previous Ford Foundation Fellowship.

Learn more about:

• Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships
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No, applications will be accepted only for a limited number of 2024-2025 dissertation, postdoctoral, and senior fellowship awards. Eligible applicants for these fellowships must have held a previous Ford Foundation Fellowship administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Dissertation Fellowship application: December 12, 2023 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Postdoctoral Fellowship application: December 12, 2023 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Senior Fellowship application:  January 31, 2024 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time Supporting documents for dissertation and postdoctoral applicants (including transcripts, verification forms, letters of recommendation, and postdoctoral host commitment letter): January 9, 2024 at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.

No extensions or exceptions will be made for applicants or letter writers for any circumstances. Applicants and letter writers should ensure that they upload all their materials well in advance of the deadline and should be advised that the application system will automatically close at 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the specified deadline dates. Applicants and letter writers who attempt to submit materials after this time will not be able to do so and these materials will not be accepted via e-mail or postal mail

Dissertation Fellowship: Intended to support the final year of graduate school, specifically writing and defense of the dissertation. Applicants must submit the Verification of Doctoral Degree Status Form (PDF, 114 KB)  documenting that they have completed all requirements for a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree, except for writing and defense of the dissertation.

Postdoctoral Fellowship: A career-enhancement award for recent Ph.D. or Sc.D. recipients (eligible applicants must have received their Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree within the past seven years). It is intended to provide an opportunity for recent Ph.D.s or Sc.D.s to take a year off from other responsibilities so they can conduct research at a host institution of their choice.

Senior Fellowship: Intended for faculty (eligible applicants must have held the Ph.D./Sc.D. for at least seven years by the application deadline) at accredited U.S. institutions to support research that advances and contributes knowledge to areas that are consistent with the work of the Ford Foundation.

Citations are not required; however, if used, they should be single-spaced and formatted using a standard bibliographic format appropriate to the applicant’s field. The inclusion of citations will count towards the maximum page limit for the document upload.

Full-time employment is not permitted for dissertation or postdoctoral Fellows while on fellowship tenure since Fellows are expected to devote full-time to their Ph.D. or Sc.D. or postdoctoral study. A concurrent TA or RA position may be allowed if 1) it is required by the program, 2) if it is necessary to secure stipend supplementation, benefits, or tuition waivers, or 3) if the assistantship is beneficial to the Fellow’s career development. However, the compensation associated with the assistantship position must be limited to supplementation of the Ford Foundation Fellowship stipend up to a standard assistantship salary at the institution, rather than a separate, full-time stipend in addition to the Ford Foundation Fellowship.

Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship applicants: The Applications page located in the left navigation menu of the online application will indicate the date and time your application was submitted. You will also receive a confirmation e-mail. If your application does not include this timestamp and you do not receive the confirmation e-mail, your application was not successfully submitted.

Senior Fellowship applicants: The Sr. Fellowship Appl. page located in the left navigation menu of your online Ford Fellows account will indicate a Submitted status with the date you submitted your application.

The host commitment letter is required only for postdoctoral applicants and must state the willingness of the proposed mentor and the research site to serve as the applicant’s host during their fellowship tenure. This letter is in addition to the required minimum of three letters of recommendation.

Applicants should ensure that they have correctly entered the letter writer's e-mail address on the References page of the online application. If it was entered incorrectly, the applicant can edit the address and resend the notification by selecting Notify. If the address is correct, letter writers should check their spam or junk folders for the notification sent from [email protected] . If they cannot locate the notification, they should contact  [email protected] .

Dissertation Fellowship applicants: A signed VS form  is required of all dissertation applicants. Postdoctoral Fellowship applicants: A signed VS form  is required only of postdoctoral applicants who have received the Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree by December 12, 2023 but whose Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree has not been conferred and documented on a transcript.

Supplementary materials cannot be uploaded until the fellowship application has been submitted. Ensure you submitted your application before attempting to upload any supplementary materials. If you have already submitted your application and are receiving an error message, try reducing the size of your file so that it does not exceed 4MB or shortening the name of the file. If you continue to experience difficulties, contact  [email protected] .

Yes, unofficial transcripts are acceptable at the application stage. If offered a fellowship award, however, awardees must submit official transcripts to replace previously submitted unofficial transcripts. Postdoctoral awardees must submit an official Ph.D. or Sc.D. transcript showing the degree with the degree receipt date.

• Sign in to your application.
• Select Data Review in the left navigation.
• Go to the Education History section of page.
• All successfully uploaded documents will have an Uploaded status and the date the document was uploaded under the Supplementary Material header.  

All applicants will be notified of the status of their application via e-mail. Notifications will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your online application. Once you have been notified via e-mail of the status of your application, you will be able to log in to your application to view reviewer feedback. If you applied to a Ford Foundation fellowship prior to the 2018 competition and did not already request reviewer feedback, you may request it by sending an e-mail to [email protected] .

Reviewers are strongly encouraged but not required to include comments. If comments are not included, then reviewers opted not to enter comments.

Please see a list of other funding opportunities offered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine  here  and a list of outside opportunities compiled by the Fellowship Office listed  here .

Yes. All currently awarded predoctoral Ford Fellows will continue to be eligible to use any remaining years of fellowship support in compliance with all prior Terms of Appointment for their Fellowship, including policy adjustments in 2020 and 2021 related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Current predoctoral Fellows can contact  [email protected]  to confirm their period of eligibility.

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Stanford Dissertation Fellowships

The Stanford Humanities Center and the School of Humanities and Sciences collaborate to administer two Stanford humanities dissertation fellowships: the Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Prize and Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowships. Stanford students submit one application to be considered for one or both of these fellowships. Applicants for these fellowships are typically in the 5th or 6th year of their doctoral program.

(You can find more information about the Stanford Humanities Center Next Generation Scholar fellowships, which are open to students in year 7 or above only,  linked here .)

Applications for 2024–2025 fellowships are now closed.

Eligible applicants may apply to the SHC Dissertation Prize/Mellon Dissertation fellowships  or  Next Generation Scholar fellowship, but not  both  NGS and DP/Mellon in the same application cycle. 

Fellowship Opportunities

The SHC Dissertation Prize Fellowships, endowed by Theodore and Frances Geballe, are awarded to doctoral students whose work is of the highest distinction and promise. The fellowship stipend includes three academic quarters of funding (fall/winter/spring). In 2023-24 the funding amount was $38,700; the exact amount for 2024-25 will be announced pending final budget confirmation by January 2024. The recipients of these fellowships have offices at the Humanities Center and take part with other graduate as well as undergraduate and faculty fellows in the Center's programs, promoting humanistic research and education at Stanford. The SHC Dissertation Prize Fellowships also provide an additional $2,000 in research funding.

The Mellon Dissertation Fellowships, which are generously funded by the Mellon Foundation, are awarded to advanced doctoral students whose work is of the highest quality and whose academic record to date indicates a timely progression toward completion of the degree. The fellowship stipend includes three academic quarters of funding (fall/winter/spring). In 2023-24 the funding amount was $38,700; the exact amount for 2024-25 will be announced pending budget confirmation in January 2024.

Frequently Asked Questions

The SHC Dissertation Prize and Mellon 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. Applicants must have:

• advanced to candidacy;
• completed all requirements for the doctoral degree with the exception of the dissertation and the University Oral Examination (when a defense of the dissertation);
• an approved dissertation reading committee;
• a dissertation proposal approved by their committee;
• a strong likelihood of completing the degree within the tenure of the fellowship;
• reached TGR status by the beginning of autumn quarter of the fellowship year;
• completed supervised teaching, if required by their department, before the tenure of the fellowship.
• Outside employment must be aligned with university policy and approved by the home department (including the Humanities Center for SHC fellowships). Please be in close contact with your home department, H&S office, and/or the SHC before confirming any teaching assistantships or accepting other employment or fellowships.
• SHC DP fellows are expected to take part in the daily life of the Center for the duration of their fellowship (i.e. attend lunches and weekly seminars). Next Generation fellows are encouraged but not required to be in regular physical residence at the Center.
• Mellon fellowship: there is no on-campus requirement akin to the expectations for SHC fellows. However, Mellon dissertation fellows are subject to University residency expectations and departmental residency requirements—i.e., having a Mellon does not exempt a student from these residency expectations.
• Applicants who have previously held one of these fellowships are not eligible to reapply for that same fellowship.
• Applicants who have not previously held a Stanford dissertation fellowship will be given the most serious consideration.
• SHC Dissertation Prize Fellowships are open to applicants from the School of Education.
• The fellowships provides tuition support at the TGR rate regardless of whether a student has moved to TGR status. If the student is not yet TGR at the start of the fellowship, the department may provide supplemental funds to cover tuition shortfall.
• Students who are TGR or in a graduation quarter status must enroll in the appropriate zero unit TGR course.
• These fellowships awards are not deferrable to future years or to the summer quarter  

Applications must be submitted via our online application system and must be in English. Access to the system opens in the fall quarter and closes on February 4, 2024, 11:59 PM Pacific time. We discourage the submission of additional materials with the application and cannot circulate these to the committee or return such materials.

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

• Contact and biographical information about the applicant
• A curriculum vitae (C.V.)
• Current unofficial transcript (download from AXESS)
• Detailed timetable for the completion of the degree (e.g. dissertation outline detailing status of each chapter)
• Statement of the dissertation’s scholarly significance: Provide a concise explanation of the ways in which the project is a significant contribution to its area of study. Assume the audience to be academics who are not specialists in the field. (250 word maximum)
• A brief description (no more than 1,000 words) of the dissertation
• Two reference letters - one should be from the applicant’s advisor: Please ensure that faculty recommenders have reviewed the proposal and timetable (including status of chapters) in advance and are well prepared to discuss this in their letters. Referees are encouraged to submit letters through our online application system. Referees who wish to submit their letter of reference via email may send them to  [email protected] . Reference letters must be received at the Center by the application deadline - consideration of letters received after that date cannot be guaranteed.

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

• the evidence of intellectual distinction;
• the quality and precision of the dissertation proposal;
• the applicant's timely progress toward the degree;
• the likelihood of completing the degree within the tenure of the fellowship;
• in the case of SHC applicants, the likelihood of the applicant contributing to, as well as benefiting from, the programs of the Humanities Center.

For more information contact  Kelda Jamison , the Humanities Center fellowship program manager.

The application deadline for 2024-25 will be 11:59 pm Pacific time, February 4, 2024.

For more frequently asked questions, click  here .

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Buffett Dissertation Fellowship Program

The buffett dissertation fellowship program provides financial and programmatic support to an interdisciplinary cohort of approximately 10 doctoral students in y ears 6 and 7 ..

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This fellowship provides financial and programmatic support to an interdisciplinary cohort of approximately 10 advanced graduate students, with priority given to students conducting their research abroad .   Financial support includes an enhanced stipend and tuition coverage for one year (three quarters). Programming includes essential dissertation completion support and professional development opportunities to improve scholars’ prospects on the academic and non-academic job markets.

Deadline: March 24, 2024

The application portal can be accessed via SOAP . The application will require the following :

• A   project narrative   of no more than five double-spaced pages that explains your dissertation research and its significance for a general scholarly audience. In addition to clearly articulating the argument your dissertation makes, this narrative should describe the state of current debates on this topic and your intervention in these debates, indicating the global and international dimensions of your work. It should also include a table of contents for the dissertation, indicating what chapters are complete and providing the status of others. The five-page limit does not include notes and bibliography, which should be limited to two additional pages.
• A writing sample of up to 35 pages (not including notes)
• Two letters of reference: one from your advisor and another from a committee member or someone else who knows your work well
• Departmental approval from your DGS

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Questions about th is fellowship can be sent to Aaron Darrisaw at [email protected] .

Dissertation Fellows

• Anthropology

Nathan Acebo

Grace Alexandrino Ocaña

• Political Science

Kirk Bansak

Hernán Barahona

Luca Braghieri

Christof Brandtner

Rodrigo Carril

Dean Chahim

Gabriel Chiu

Paul Christians

Cordelia Erickson-Davis

Jane Esberg

Valentín Figueroa

Robin Kaiji Gong

Sam Holley-Kline

Akshay Jagadeesh

Kari Leibowitz

Hans Lueders

Mashail Malik

William Marble

• Communication

David Markowitz

Tony Marks-Block

Alejandro Martínez-Marquina

Hannah Mieczkowski

Amanda Mireles

Daniel O'Leary

Taylor Orth

Sebastián Otero

Sabrina Papazian

Rebecca Perlman

Tamkinat Rauf

Jasmine Reid

Jacob Reidhead

Kiara Sanchez

Jessica Santana

Catherine Sirois

Bradley Spahn

Melanie Wallskog

Scott Westenberger

Lauren Yapp

Tongtong Zhang

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American Fellowships

Funding:  $8,000–$50,000 Opens:  August 1 every year Deadline: November 15 every year EXTENDED Now Accepting Applications through November 30

The American Fellowship program began in 1888, a time when women were discouraged from pursuing an education. It is AAUW’s largest fellowship program and the oldest non-institutional source of graduate funding for women in the United States.  

AAUW American Fellowships support women scholars who are pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research full time, or preparing research for publication for eight consecutive weeks. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Candidates are evaluated based on scholarly excellence; quality and originality of project design; and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions, or fields of research.  

Dissertation: The purpose of the American Dissertation Fellowship is to offset a scholar’s living expenses while they complete their dissertation. F ellows must use the award for the final year of writing the dissertation. Applicants must have completed all course work, passed all preliminary examinations, and received approval for their research proposals or plans by the preceding November. Students holding fellowships for writing a dissertation in the year prior to the AAUW fellowships year are not eligible. Open to applicants in all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering , and math fields or those researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply.  

Postdoctoral: The primary purpose of the American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship is to increase the number of women in tenure-track faculty positions and to promote equity for women in higher education. This fellowship ’s purpose is to assist the candidate in obtaining tenure and further promotions by enabling them to spend a year pursuing independent research. Tenured professors are not eligible. Open to applicants in all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering , and math fields or those researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply.  

Publication: The Short-Term Research Publication Grants provide support to scholars to prepare research manuscripts for publication. AAUW’s funding priority is for applicants whose work supports the vision of AAUW: to break through educational and economic barriers so that all women have a fair chance. Time must be available for eight consecutive weeks of final writing and editing in response to issues raised in critical reviews. These fellowships can be for both tenure-track and part-time faculty, and to new and established researchers. The purpose is to assist the candidate in obtaining tenure and other promotions. Tenured professors are not eligible. Open to applicants in all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering , and math fields or those researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply.  

Award Amount

Dissertation Fellowship: $25,000

Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship: $50,000

Short-Term Research Publication Grant: $8,000

August 1, 2023 Application opens.

November 15, 2023, by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time Deadline for online submission of application, recommendations, and supporting documents.

April 15, 2024 Notification of decision emailed to all applicants. AAUW is not able to honor requests for earlier notification.

July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025 Fellowship year

When a date falls on a weekend or holiday, the date will be observed on the following business day.  

Eligibility

Applicants of all American Fellowships must meet the following criteria:  

• Members of the AAUW Board of Directors, committees, panels, task forces and staff, including current interns, are not eligible to apply for AAUW’s fellowships and grants. A person holding a current award is eligible for election or appointment to boards, committees, panels and task forces.  
• American Fellowship candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.  
• Fellowships are open to women, including people who identify as women, in all fields of study at an accredited institution of higher education. AAUW will make final decisions about what constitutes eligible institutions.  
• Applicants may not apply for another AAUW national fellowship or grant in the same year.  
• Distance learning/online programs: Fellowships support traditional classroom-based courses of study at colleges or universities. This fellowship program does not provide funding for distance learning or online programs or for degrees heavily dependent on distance learning components. Final decisions about what constitutes distance learning under these fellowships will be made by AAUW. AAUW will accept applications from applicants who are temporarily studying remotely due to COVID-19 precautions at their institution.  
• American Fellowships are not open to previous recipients of any AAUW national fellowship or grant (not including branch or local awards or Community Action Grants).

A pplicants of Dissertation Fellowships must also meet the following criteria :  

• The American Dissertation Fellowship must be used for the final year of writing the dissertation. Applicants must have completed all coursework, passed all preliminary exams, and had the dissertation research proposal or plan approved by November 1, 2023 . The doctoral degree/dissertation must be completed between April 1 and June 30, 2025 . Degree conferral must be between April 1 and September 15, 2025 .  
• Dissertation Fellows are not required to study in the U.S.  
• Students already holding a fellowship or grant for the purpose of supporting their final year of writing or completing the dissertation the year before the fellowship year are not eligible to apply for the American Dissertation Fellowship.  
• The Dissertation Fellowship is intended for applicants who are completing their first doctoral degree.  
• Applicants may apply up to two times for a fellowship for the same dissertation project.  

A pplicants of Postdoctoral Fellowships must also meet the following criteria :  

• American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship applicants must hold a Ph.D., Ed.D., D.B.A., M.F.A., J.D., M.D., D.M.D., D.V.M., D.S.W., or M.P.H. at the time of application.  
• Tenured professors are not eligible.  

Applicants of Publication Grants must also meet the following criteria :  

• American Short-Term Research Publication Grant applicants must hold a Ph.D., Ed.D., D.B.A., M.F.A., J.D., M.D., D.M.D., D.V.M., D.S.W., or M.P.H. at the time of application.  
• Tenured professors are not eligible.
• American Short-Term Research Publication Grants are for tenure-track, part-time, and temporary faculty, as well as new and established researchers at universities. Scholars with strong publication records should seek funding elsewhere. Applicants must have time available for eight consecutive weeks of final manuscript preparation. While many recipients, especially full-time faculty members, will use the award s during the summer, recipients may use the funds at any time during the award year. Applicants must demonstrate that the support will result in a reduction of their ongoing work-related activities during the eight-week period .  
• American Short-Term Research Publication Grants are not for preliminary research. Activities undertaken during the grant period can include drafting, editing, or modifying manuscripts; replicating research components; responding to issues raised through critical review; and other initiatives to increase the likelihood of publication.  
• The grantee must be listed as the sole author, senior author, first author, or an author of equivalent significance.  

Selection Criteria and Application Review

The panel meets once a year to review applications for funding. Awards are based on the criteria outlined here. The panel’s recommendations are subject to final approval by AAUW. Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis according to funds available in a given fiscal year.  

To ensure a fair review process, AAUW does not comment on the deliberations of the award panels. AAUW does not provide evaluations of applications. No provisions exist for reconsidering fellowship proposals.

Applications and supporting documents become the sole property of AAUW and will not be returned or held for another year.  

In selecting fellowship recipients, the following criteria will be considered:  

• Applicant’s scholarly excellence.  
• Quality of project design.  
• Originality of project.  
• Scholarly significance of project to the discipline.  
• Feasibility of project and proposed schedule.  
• Qualifications of applicant.  
• Applicant’s commitment to women’s issues in the profession/community.  
• Applicant’s mentoring of other women.  
• Applicant’s teaching experience.  
• Potential of applicant to make a significant contribution to the field.  
• Applicant is from an underrepresented racial/ethnic background.  
• Applicant will be in an underrepresented area of the country and/or type of university other than a top-level research institution during the award year.  
• Financial need.  

The primary criterion for fellowship awards is scholarly excellence. Applications are reviewed by distinguished scholars and should be prepared accordingly.  

American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship and American Short-Term Research Publication Grant: When comparing proposals of equal merit, the review panel will give special consideration to women holding junior academic appointments who are seeking research leave, women who have held the doctorate for at least three years, and women whose educational careers have been interrupted. Preference will also be given to projects that are not simply a revision of the applicant’s doctoral dissertation and applicants whose work supports the vision of AAUW: to break through educational and economic barriers so that all women have a fair chance.  

Regulations

American Fellowships funds are available for:  

• Educational expenses (American Dissertation Fellowship and American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship only).  
• Living expenses.  
• Dependent child care.  
• Travel to professional meetings, conferences, or seminars that does not exceed 10 percent of the fellowship total (American Dissertation Fellowship and American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship only).  

Additionally, American Short-Term Publication Grant funds are available for:  

• Clerical and technical support.  
• Research assistance related to verification (not basic research).  
• Office supplies, postage, copying and related expenses.  
• Journal fees.  

American Fellowships funds are not available for:  

• Purchase of equipment.  
• Indirect costs.  
• Research assistants.  
• Previous expenditures, deficits, or repayment of loans.  
• Publication costs (except for American Short-Term Publication Grants).  
• Institutional (overhead) costs.  
• Tuition for dependent’s education.  
• Tuition for coursework that is in addition to credits required for maintaining full-time status while completing a dissertation.  
• Extended field research (applicable to American Dissertation Fellowships only).  

Additionally, American Short-Term Research Publication Grants funds are not available for:  

• Salary increase.  
• Doctoral dissertation research or writing.  

AAUW regards the acceptance of a fellowship as a contract requiring fulfillment of the following terms:  

• All American Fellowship recipients are required to sign a contract as acceptance of the award. Retain these instructions as they will become part of the fellowship contract if the applicant is awarded a fellowship.  
• An AAUW American Fellow is expected to pursue their project full time during the funding period (July 1–June 30). No partial fellowships are awarded. Fellowships may not be deferred.  
• American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellows and American Short-Term Research Publication Grantees cannot pursue a degree during the award period.  
• Any major changes in plans for the award year must have prior written approval from AAUW.  
• AAUW must be notified promptly of any change in the status of an application resulting from acceptance of another award.  
• Stipends are made payable to fellows, not to institutions.  
• The determination of whether there is a tax obligation associated with the receipt of an AAUW award is the sole responsibility of the applicant. Specific questions regarding income tax matters should be addressed with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the applicant’s financial aid office or a personal tax adviser. AAUW cannot provide tax advice. AAUW is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity founded for educational purposes.  

Required Components*

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• Recommendations: Standardized or form-letter recommendations are discouraged. AAUW does not accept references from dossier services such as Parment or Interfolio.
• Dissertation Fellowship applicants: Applicant must provide two recommendations from the applicant’s advisers, colleagues or others well acquainted with the applicant, their project and their teaching. One of the two recommendations must be from the applicant’s dissertation advisor.
• Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship applicants: Provide two recommendations from the applicant’s advisers, colleagues or others well acquainted with their project or work.
• Short-Term Research Publication Grant applicants: Provide two recommendations from the applicant’s advisers, colleagues or others well acquainted with the applicant, their project/work and their teaching.
• Dissertation Fellowship applicants: Submit transcripts for all graduate work and courses listed in the application. Transcripts must show grades for coursework transferred in. If the transcript shows transfer courses and credits without grades, a transcript from the institution where the courses were taken is required. If you studied at an institution that does not require coursework or provide transcripts, an institutional letter stating that is required.
• Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship and Short-Term Publication Grant applicants: Proof of degree: Submit transcript(s)** or original letter showing proof of a Ph.D., Ed.D., M.F.A., J.D., M.D., D.M.D., D.V.M., D.B.A., D.S.W., or M.P.H. degree.
• Dissertation Fellowship applicants: Dissertation certification form: Submit the form verifying the completion of all required coursework and qualifying examinations for the doctorate and approval of your dissertation research proposal (plan of research) signed by an institutional officer. No substitutions for this form will be accepted.
• Dissertation applicants: If you will conduct your project at an institution other than your own during the fellowship year, submit the form that indicates you have approval from the institution and the authority with whom the work will be done to conduct the research, laboratory or office space, and library privileges during the fellowship year. No substitutions for this form will be accepted. If you will conduct your project at your home institution, no project institution form is needed.
• Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship and Short-Term Publication Grant applicants: Submit the form that indicates you have approval from the proposed institution and the authority with whom the work will be done to conduct the research and have institutional affiliation, laboratory or office space, and library privileges during the fellowship year. No substitutions for this form will be accepted.

*A certified English translation is required for all components provided in a foreign language. Translations must bear a mark of certification or official signature that the translation is true and complete.

**All transcripts provided must include the applicant’s full name, the school’s name, all courses and all grades, as well as any other information requested in in the application instructions.  

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Meet a Recent American Fellow

Sarah Biscarra Dilley ’s research is focused on matrifocal and gender-expansive governance from northern villages of yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini to Mokupuni o Hawai‘i, rooted in shared land and kinship-based epistemology. Her written, visual and material practice is grounded in collaboration across experiences, peoples and place, connecting extractive industries, absent treaties and enclosure to emphasize movement, embodied protocol and possibility. Her aspirations are toward cultural resurgence and the return of land to her families’ stewardship.

Our Alumnae

Ayana Johnson

2010–11 American Fellow and marine biologist, policy expert and conservation strategist. She is the founder and CEO of Ocean Collectiv and founder of Urban Ocean Lab.

Melissa Harris-Perry

2001-02 AAUW American Fellow and Maya Angelou Presidential Chair at Wake Forest University, a columnist for the Nation, editor-at-large for ZORA, author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America , and former host of The Melissa Harris-Perry Show on MSNBC.

Kimberly Ennico-Smith

1997-98 AAUW American Fellow and staff scientist with NASA who served as deputy project scientist for NASA’s New Horizons Mission, the historic project responsible for capturing unprecedented photos of Pluto.

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American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowships support women scholars who are completing dissertations, planning research leave from accredited institutions, or preparing research for publication. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Candidates are evaluated on the basis of scholarly excellence; quality and originality of project design; and active commitment to helping women and girls through service in their communities, professions, or fields of research.

American Dissertation Fellowships Dissertation Fellowships offset a scholar’s living expenses while she completes her dissertation. The fellowship must be used for the final year of writing the dissertation. Applicants must have completed all course work, passed all preliminary examinations, and received approval for their research proposals or plans by the preceding November. Students holding fellowships for writing a dissertation in the year prior to the AAUW fellowships year are not eligible. Open to applicants in all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering, and math fields or researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply.

About the Program The oldest and largest of AAUW’s fellowships and grant programs, the American Fellowships program began in 1888, a time when women were discouraged from pursuing an education. Now one of the largest sources of funding for graduate education for women, AAUW has provided more than $115 million to upwards of 13,000 fellows and grantees since awarding its first fellowship to Ida Street, a pioneer in the field of early American Indian history.

Applications are open August 1–November 1

Award Amount: $20,000

Time Line November 1, 2019, by 11:59 p.m. Central Time: Deadline for online submission of application, recommendations, and supporting documents

April 15, 2020: Notification of decision emailed to all applicants. AAUW is not able to honor requests for earlier notification.

July 1, 2020–June 30, 2021: Fellowship year

When a deadline or notification date falls on a weekend, the date will be observed on the following business day.

Eligibility American Fellowships are not open to previous recipients of any AAUW national fellowship or grant (not including branch or local awards or Community Action Grants). Members of the AAUW Board of Directors, committees, panels, task forces, and staff, including current interns, are not eligible to apply for AAUW’s fellowships and grants. A person holding a current award is eligible for election or appointment to boards, committees, panels, and task forces.

• American Fellowship candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
• American Fellowships are open to women scholars in all fields of study.
• The American Dissertation Fellowship must be used for the final year of writing the dissertation. Applicants must have completed all coursework, passed all preliminary exams, and had the dissertation research proposal or plan approved by November 1, 2019. The doctoral degree/dissertation must be completed between April 1 and June 30, 2021. Degree conferral must be between April 1 and September 15, 2021.
• Dissertation Fellows are not required to study in the U.S.
• Students already holding a fellowship or grant for the purpose of supporting their final year of writing or completing the dissertation the year before the fellowship year are not eligible to apply.
• Applicants may apply up to two times for a fellowship for the same dissertation project.
• The fellowship is intended for applicants who are completing their first doctoral degree.

Criteria for Selection and Application Review The American Fellowships panel meets once a year to review applications for funding. Awards are based on the selection criteria outlined here. The panel’s recommendations are subject to final approval by the AAUW Board of Directors. Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis according to funds available in a given fiscal year

In selecting fellowship recipients, the following criteria will be considered:

• Applicant’s scholarly excellence
• Quality of project design
• Originality of project
• Scholarly significance of project to the discipline
• Feasibility of project and proposed schedule
• Qualifications of applicant
• Applicant’s commitment to women’s issues in the profession/community
• Applicant’s mentoring of other women
• Applicant’s teaching experience
• Potential of applicant to make a significant contribution to the field
• Applicant is from an underrepresented racial/ethnic background
• Applicant is from an underrepresented area of the country and/or type of university other than a top-level research institution
• Financial Need

The primary criterion for fellowship awards is scholarly excellence. Applications are reviewed by distinguished scholars and should be prepared accordingly.

Regulations American Dissertation Fellowships funds are available for:

• Educational expenses
• Living expenses
• Dependent child care
• Travel to professional meetings, conferences, or seminars, as long as it does not exceed 10 percent of the fellowship

American Dissertation Fellowships funds are not available for:

• Purchase of equipment
• Indirect costs
• Research assistants
• Previous expenditures, deficits, or repayment of loans
• Publication costs
• Institutional (overhead) costs
• Tuition for dependent’s education
• Tuition for coursework that is in addition to credits required for maintaining full-time status while completing a dissertation
• Extended field research

An AAUW American Fellow is expected to pursue her project full time during the funding period (July 1–June 30). No partial fellowships are awarded. Fellowships may not be deferred. Fellows may work up to 15 hours per week, or teach one section of one course per semester or term, with prior written approval from AAUW.

The AAUW American Fellowships stipend must be larger than any other single award or remunerative position received during the fellowship year and must be acknowledged as the major award. Acceptance of concurrent funds of a lesser amount than the AAUW award is permitted but requires prior written approval from AAUW. Dissertation fellows cannot hold concurrent fellowships or grants for the purpose of supporting their final year of writing or completing the dissertation.

Any major changes in plans for the fellowship year must have prior written approval from AAUW.

AAUW must be notified promptly of any change in the status of an application resulting from acceptance of another award.

Stipend checks are made payable to fellows, not to institutions.

Required Components Start the application process by clicking on the link to access the application and create an account through our vendor site. Complete all required components in the following tabs.

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• Applicants must pass the eligibility quiz to be reviewed by the selection panel.
• Provide three recommenders who are the applicant’s advisers, colleagues, or others well acquainted with her, her project/work, and her teaching. One of the three recommendations must be from the applicant’s dissertation director. Standardized or form letter recommendations are discouraged. AAUW does not accept references from dossier services.
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• Transcripts for all graduate work and courses listed in the application.
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• Asia Center Winter Research Travel Grants
• Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC)
• Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) Dissertation Fellowships
• Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) Seed Grant
• Center for Geographic Analysis GIS Institute
• Clifford C. Clogg Scholarship
• Cultural Exchange Fulbright
• Djokovic Science & Innovation Fellows / Richmond Fellows
• Dorothy S. Thomas Award
• Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellowships
• Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Summer Research Grant
• Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
• Fund for Research on the Foundations of Human Behavior
• Graduate Society Merit/Term-Time Fellowships
• Graduate Society Predissertation Summer Fellowships
• Graduate Student Associates Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
• HKS Ash Center China Programs Student Research Grant
• HKS Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management Research Grant
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• Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy PhD Scholars
• NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowships
• National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF DDRI)
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)
• Open Gate Foundation for LGBTQ+ Research Grant
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Graduate Student Fellowship
• Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston Public Policy Summer Fellowship
• Russell Sage Foundation
• Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grants
• SSRC – Mellon Mays Dissertation Completion Grant
• Social Science Research Council – Mellon Mays Pre-doctoral Research Grant
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• WIGi Small Research Grants for Harvard Graduate Students
• Washington Center for Equitable Growth Grantees
• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Canada Program Fellowship
• Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Pre-Dissertation Research Grant
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Dissertation Fellowships

American Academy in Rome Dissertation Fellowships (link is external)

The Academy offers 11-month and two-year pre-doctoral fellowships in Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance/Early Modern Studies, and Modern Italian Studies. Pre-doctoral fellowships are meant to provide scholars with the necessary time to research and complete their doctoral dissertations.

American Council of Learned Societies  (link is external)

Dissertation fellowships of up to $25,000 for writing dissertations in Southeast European Studies. Also provides Southeast European language training grants.

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (link is external) The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner.

Council on Library and Information Resources (link is external) The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to offer fellowships generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for dissertation research in the humanities in original sources. The program offers about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships a year. Each provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for periods ranging from nine to 12 months. Each fellow will receive an additional $1,000 upon participating in a symposium on research in original sources and submitting a report acceptable to CLIR on the research experience. Thus the maximum award will be $25,000.

DePauw University Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges (link is external) The Consortium invites applications for dissertation fellowships and post-doctoral fellowships from U.S. citizens or permanent residents who will contribute to increasing the diversity of member colleges by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximizing the educational benefits of diversity and/or increasing the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of students.

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) (link is external) This program provides academic year and summer fellowships to institutions of higher education to assist graduate students in foreign language and either area or international studies. Students can use the Summer FLAS internationally or domestically. Apply through UC Berkeley.

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (link is external) Provides grants to colleges and universities to fund individual doctoral students to conduct research in other countries in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of six to 12 months. Proposals focusing on Western Europe are not eligible.

Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowship (link is external) The Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowships at Williams College are designed to promote diversity on college faculties by encouraging students from underrepresented groups to complete a terminal graduate degree and to pursue careers in college teaching.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowships  - Now HFG Emerging Scholars Awarded to scholars whose work can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world. Particular questions that interest the foundation concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, drug trafficking and use, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence.

Huntington Library Fellowships (link is external) Short-term residencies (up to $2300/month) at the library are available for Ph.D. students at the dissertation stage.

IHR Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in the Humanities (link is external) $5,000 for pre-doctoral fellows and $25,000 for doctoral fellows will be awarded for archival history research in the United Kingdom.

International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) (link is external) The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) offers nine to 12 months of support to graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States and conducting dissertation research outside of the United States. IDRF promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and geographical region but is also informed by interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives. 

Mabelle McLeod Lewis Fellowships (link is external) Provides grants to advanced doctoral candidates in the humanities for completion of a scholarly dissertation project on which significant progress has already been made.

National Gallery of Art Dissertation Fellowships (link is external) The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Artshosts an annual program of support for advanced graduate research in the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, and urbanism. Each of the nine fellowships have specific requirements and intents, including support for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation, for residency and travel during the period of dissertation research, and for post-doctoral research.

Samuel H. Kress Dissertation Fellowships in Art History (link is external) Competitive Kress Fellowships administered by the Kress Foundation are awarded to art historians and art conservators in the final stages of their preparation for professional careers, as well as to art museum curators and educators.

Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships (link is external) Offers approximately 30 fellowships of $20,000 to support dissertations bringing "fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world."

Soroptimist International Founder Region Women’s Fellowship (link is external) The mission of the Founder Region Fellowship is to advance the status of women. This will be accomplished through financial support to women in the last year of their doctoral degree. Competition is open to any outstanding graduate woman who is working toward a doctoral degree, preferably in the last year of study but permissibly during the last two years. She must be enrolled in a graduate school within Founder Region, Northern California.

Templeton Dissertation Fellowship at University of Notre Dame (link is external)   “The Problem of Evil in Modern and Contemporary Thought.”   The Center for Philosophy of Religion at University of Notre Dame invites doctoral candidates working in the areas of early modern philosophy of religion and/or theology to apply for a one-year fellowship. The program aims at encouraging Ph.D. students to pursue research in this area while in residence as dissertation fellows in the Center for Philosophy of Religion. 

The Erksine A. Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship at Notre Dame (link is external) The Peters Fellowship will enable two outstanding African American doctoral candidates (at the ABD level) to devote their full energies to the completion of the dissertation, and to provide an opportunity for African American scholars at the beginning of their academic careers to experience life at a major Catholic research university. Administered by both the Office of the Provost and the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Peters Fellowship invites applications from African-American doctoral candidates in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and theological disciplines who have completed all degree requirements with the exception of the dissertation.

United States Institute of Peace Dissertation Fellowships (link is external) One-year stipend ($17,000) supports students who have completed all requirements for their degree, except the dissertation, by the start of the fellowship. Dissertation must advance the state of knowledge about international peace and conflict management. 

Semester Dissertation Fellowships (Wylie and Lee Thonton)

The Graduate School's Semester Dissertation Fellowship program includes the  Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship  and the  Lee Thornton Endowed Fellowship . Dissertation fellowships provide full-time support to University of Maryland doctoral candidates who are in the latter stages of writing their dissertations.  Awarded students for AY 24-25 can choose to use the fellowship in either Fall 2024 or Spring 2025. Fellowship benefits include a $15,000 Stipend, a Candidacy Tuition award (899 only), a credit for mandatory fees associated with 899 registration, and reimbursement for the purchase of an individual student health insurance plan for the semester.  

Eligibility:  Eligible candidates are current UMD doctoral students who will have advanced to candidacy by June 1, 2024, and expect to graduate by August 2025.  

Nomination Process :  Doctoral programs are eligible to nominate candidates for the Semester Dissertation Fellowship. Please see the Nomination Allocation Schedule in the Guidelines. Programs must submit nominations by  noon, Wednesday, February 5, 2025.   Students:   Please write your abstract for a non-specialist audience and submit your materials to your program according to their internal deadline.  

Lee Thornton Fellowship Recipients

Lee Thornton Fellows History

Ann G. Wylie Fellowship Recipients

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2023-2024 Doctoral Dissertation Fellows

The graduate school is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 ddf fellowship recipients.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023-2024 DDF Fellowship! The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) gives the University's most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year.

Lauren Agnew

Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Advisor(s): Emilie Snell-Rood “Using Trait-Based Ecological Risk Assesment to Assess Bee Species' Vulnerability to Heavy Metal Pollutants”

Emily Althoff

Entomology Advisor(s): Brian Aukema “Chemical ecology of the eastern larch beetle and natural enemies"

Katherine Ashby

Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Advisor(s): Kristin Hogquist “Investigating Immune Tolerance to Inflammation-Associated Self-Antigens"

shelby auger

Chemistry Advisor(s): Mark Distefano “Tracking dysregulation of prenylation in disease models using proteomic analysis elucidates mechanisms of disease development"

charul avachat

Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Advisor(s): Angela Birnbaum “Pharmacokinetic characterization of antiseizure medications at different stages of life in patients with epilepsy"

Kyle baasch

Comparative Studies In Discourse and Society Advisor(s): Keya Ganguly “The Revolution of Scholarship in the Shadow of Fascism (1918-1945)"

aleisha barton

Art History Advisor(s): Jennifer Marshall "Your Eyes Are Limited": Psychedelic Aesthetics in the Post-War Age, 1966-1970"

adrianna bell

Nursing Advisor(s): Melissa Horning "The Impact of Social Media on Adolescents' Diets and The Moderating Role of Family Functioning and Eating Behaviors"

Civil Engineering Advisor(s): Bill Arnold "Photolysis of fluorinated compounds: tracking fluorine and degradation, use of novel UV-light emitting diodes (LEDs), and computational evaluations"

Emily briggs

Anthropology Advisor(s): Katherine Hayes "Advancing repatriation under NAGPRA using isotope methods - A case study of Minnesota"

liz calhoun

Geography Advisor(s): Bruce Braun "Mapping the Future: Inequitable Environments and the Algorithmic Forecasting of Crime"

romulus castelo

Child Psychology Advisor(s): Stephanie Carlson, Kathleen Thomas "Parent Autonomy Support: The Role of Choice in Children's Executive Function Skills"

Atharva Chikhalikar

Chemical Engineering Advisor(s): David Poerschke "Understanding modes of deposit-induced degradation in advanced alloys and metallic coatings utilized in high-temperature applications"

rashmi Choudhary

Materials Science and Engineering Advisor(s): Bharat Jalan "Novel molecular beam epitaxy method for atomically-precise synthesis of superconducting metal oxide films"

ryan Collanton

Chemical Engineering Advisor(s): Kevin Dorfman "Advancing polymer science through computational physics: From mimicking metallic alloys to useful recycled plastics"

tara conway

Applied Plant Sciences Advisor(s): Nicholas Jordan "Understanding agricultural change-making through intermediaries"

Angelique dahlberg

Conservation Sciences Advisor(s): Nicholas Phelps "Balancing control of zebra mussels against non-target impacts to native species using low-dose copper sulfate"

Plant and Microbial Biology Advisor(s): Kyle Costa "Global Responses to Environmental Change in Methanogenic Archaea"

gunnar drossel

Neuroscience Advisor(s): Anna Zilverstand "Translational Research on Substance Use Disorders"

hina durrani

Integrated Biosciences Advisor(s): Sara Zimmer "Insight On the Evolutionary Impetus for Subcellular Compartmentalization"

mary jane espina

Applied Plant Sciences Advisor(s): Aaron Lorenz, Robert Stupar "Dissecting the molecular and physiological mechanism of the candidate gene underlying iron deficiency chlorosis resistance in soybean"

Psychology Advisor(s): Andrew Oxenham "Adaptation effects along a voice/non-voice continuum: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence"

Katerina gribbin

Economics Advisor(s): Jeremy Lise "It’s Always Sunny in Ontario: The Effects of Wage Disclosure on Wages"

Matthew Gullickson

Applied Plant Sciences Advisor(s): Mary Rogers "Chemical ecology of spotted-wing drosophila: behavioral responses to olfactory stimuli and implications for pest management"

thomas Hasenzagl

Economics Advisor(s): Ellen McGrattan "Essays in Macroeconomics with a Focus on Market Power"

matthew Hausladen

Materials Science and Engineering Advisor(s): Chris Ellison, Lorrain Francis "Additive manufacturing of soft materials through photopolymerization: From 3D printing to growing soft robots"

Mathematics Advisor(s): Craig Westerland "Fox-Neuwirth cells, quantum shuffle algebras, and applications in arithmetic statistics"

Mariann howloand

Child Psychology Advisor(s): Megan Gunnar, Bob Krueger "A Dimensional Approach to Perinatal Mania and Psychosis"

yu-chia hsu

Social and Administrative Pharmacy Advisor(s): Wendy St. Peter "Target Trial Framework to Evaluate Post-surgical Discharge Opioid Dosing Strategies on Opioid Use Disorder and Changes in Kidney Function"

jacqueline James

Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication Advisor(s): Molly Kessler "Post-Polio Syndrome in the Shadows: Epidemic Disease and Embodied History"

Computer Science Advisor(s): Lana Yorosh "Towards an Immersive and Social Learning Experience: Building the Future of Educational AR/VR"

emily kahnert

Rehabilitation Science Advisor(s): Paula Ludewig, Donald Nixdorf "Telerehabilitation Effectiveness for Individuals with Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD): A Non-Inferiority Study"

wen-han kao

Physics Advisor(s): Natalia Perkins "Disorder Effects in the Quantum Spin Liquid"

caitlyn keo

Applied Economics Advisor(s): Elizabeth Davis, Aaron Sojourner "Essays on the Economics of Child Welfare"

dongmin kim

Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Advisor(s): Allison Shaw, John Fiebur "Why move differently: the role of environments, traits, interactions, and memories in animal movement"

Yeh Jin (Jasmine) kim

Educational Psychology Advisor(s): Panayiota Kendeou "Towards a Systematic Program of Online Reading Comprehension Research"

mary kosuth

Environmental Health Advisor(s): Matt Simcik "Mighty Methods: Advancing the Quality of Microplastics Pollution Research Through Improved Methods for Quantification and Characterization"

Abhishek Kulkarni

Medicinal Chemistry Advisor(s): Carston Wagner "Tumor-Specific Redirection of Immune Cells Using Protease-Activatable Chemically Self-Assembled Nanorings (Pro-CSANs)"

jillian labranche

Sociology Advisor(s): Joachim Savelsberg, Alejandro Baer "Violence in the Classroom: Negotiating National Narratives in Rwanda and Sierra Leone"

Medicinal Chemistry Advisor(s): Courtney Aldrich, David Ferguson "Structural Re-engineering of Rifamycin Antibiotics against Drug-Resistant Mycobacteria"

haeree lang

Comparative and Molecular Biosciences Advisor(s): Steven Friedenberg, Marc Jenkins "Investigation of Canine Antigen-Specific T Cells with Novel Immunological Tools"

yoonkyu lee

Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology Advisor(s): Zohar Sachs, Chad Myers "Advanced gene expression analysis reveals novel biology in acute myeloid leukemia"

Mechanical Engineering Advisor(s): Jiarong Hong "Uncovering the Physics of Snow Settling Using Novel Large-scale Field Imaging Approach"

Pharmaceutics Advisor(s): Raj Suryanarayanan "Understanding the Role of Surfactants in the Stabilization of Protein Formulations"

Xinyue (Shirelle) liu

Psychology Advisor(s): Jonathan Gewirtz, Phu Tran "Searching for novel molecular markers of vulnerability to opioid use disorder"

alexander magnolia

History Advisor(s): Andrea Sterk "Byzantium and Beyond: The Medieval Roman World through the Letters of Patriarch Nicholas I Mystikos, 901-925 CE"

andrew mann

Plant Pathology Advisor(s): Robert Blanchette, Katherine Bushley "The role of microbes in the invasion process of red turpentine beetle and emerald ash borer"

Konstantinos Mavromatis

Computer Science Advisor(s): George Karypis "AI Reasoning with Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs"

Judith "Annie" Melton

Anthropology Advisor(s): Gilbert Tostevin "Cracking the Core: Assessing Cultural Variability Within and Among Prehistoric Populations"

Chuanhui Meng

Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media Advisor(s): Jason McGrath "Translating Film Genres in the Cold War: Transnational Travels of Film and a Post-Colonial Investigation of Early Socialist Chinese Cinema (1949-1966)"

dawn Michaelson

Computer Science Advisor(s): Eric Van Wyk, Gopalan Nadathur "Modular Metatheory for Extensible Languages"

eric mitten

Neuroscience Advisor(s): Kevin Wickman "Plasticity of ventral tegmental area (VTA) gamma amino-butyric acid (GABA) neurons following chronic ethanol exposure and stress"

keeley morris

Epidemiology Advisor(s): Gillian Tarr, Ryan Demmer "COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Impact in a Landscape of Evolving Immune Histories, Recurring Disease Surges, and Persistent Racial Inequities"

Jacob myers

Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology Advisor(s): Jeffrey Miller, Martin Felices "Identifying the causal mechanisms driving human natural killer cell exhaustion"

jennifer nicklay

Land and Atmospheric Science Advisor(s): Nic Jelinski, Jessica Gutknecht "Exploring the socio-ecological impacts of urban food cultivation in Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN through participatory science and learning"

Madeline Nyblade

Earth Sciences Advisor(s): Crystal Ng, Mike Dockry "Hydrologic Impacts of Climate and Land Use Change on Manoomin/Psiη (Wild Rice) Ecosystems: Outcomes from a Tribal-University Research Partnership"

scott hunter oppler

Comparative and Molecular Biosciences Advisor(s): Melanie Graham, Mark Rutherford "Stress dependent perturbations of the primate immune system as a marker of welfare and influence on rigor, reproducibility and clinical translation"

haiping ouyang

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics Advisor(s): Yue Chen "Identify novel oxygen sensing pathways and their regulatory mechanisms in DNA damage response under hypoxia"

suhyun park

Nursing Advisor(s): Connie Delaney, Jenna Marquard "Exploring nurses' visual navigation on a simulated EHR patinet dashboard for clinical decision-making"

eduardo perez-pazos

Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Advisor(s): Peter Kennedy "Understanding how species interactions during microbial necromass decomposition impact carbon fluxes for better climate change predictions"

robert pettys-baker

Human Factors & Ergonomics Advisor(s): Brad Holschuh "Characterizing the Perception of Artificial Skin Strain in Relationship with the Body"

sara Pillatzki-Warzeha

Theatre Arts Advisor(s): Margaret Werry "Trauma and Possibility in Performance: Indigenizing the Practice of Intercultural Theatre Collaboration through Relationality"

erin plasek

Chemistry Advisor(s): Courtney Roberts "Transforming Pharmaceutical Synthesis Through Aryne Chemistry"

Nick Rajtar

Plant Pathology Advisor(s): Robert Blanchette "Biosurveillance of Invasive Forest Pathogens in Minnesota"

James ramsburg

Hispanic and Luso Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Advisor(s): Francisco Ocampo, Carol Klee "Negotiating language change at the periphery: Language contact and the maintenance of the Majorcan Catalan lexicon"

rachel Rapagnani

Chemistry Advisor(s): Ian Tonks "Synthesis of Recyclable and Biodegradable Polyesters from Carbon Dioxide and Butadiene"

Eran Moore rea

History of Science, Technology and Medicine Advisor(s): Michel Janssen "How Experiments Begin: Pivots in 20th-Century Experimental Neutrino Physics"

benjamin robertson

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ryu suryeon

Kinesiology Advisor(s): Zan Gao "The Effect of Health Wearables in Physical Education to Improve Physical Activity and Psychosocial Beliefs among Underserved Adolescents: A Quasi-Experimental Study"

samuel safran

Conservation Scieinces Advisor(s): Robert Blair "Predicting bird responses to ecosystem change in cities: using historical data to build better urban futures"

Hailey sauer

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mahrud syrafi

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nancy scott

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jacquelyn sertic

Kinesiology Advisor(s): Juergen Konczak "The Link Between Ankle Proprioception and Muscle Rigidity and Balance in Older Adults and People with Parkinson’s Disease"

sara Seweid-DeAngelis

Feminist Studies Advisor(s): Jigna Desai, Shaden Tageldin "Beauty, Race, and Belonging in the Shadow of Enslavement: Visual Culture and Egyptian Nation-Building (1910-1965)"

mingfeng shang

Civil Engineering Advisor(s): Raphael Stern "Modeling and control mixed autonomy traffic"

somya sharma

Computer Science Advisor(s): Vipin Kumar, Snigdhansu Chatterjee "Towards Explainable Physics-Guided Machine Learning"

taaresh sanjeev taneja

Mechanical Engineering Advisor(s): Suo Yang "Computational Modeling of Non-equilibrium Plasma Assisted Turbulent Combustion for Renewable Energy and Propulsion"

mayank tanwar

Chemical Engineering Advisor(s): Matthew Neurock "First-Principles Investigation of Mediated Electrochemical Carbon-Halogen and Carbon-Hydrogen Activations for Accessing Pharmaceutical Intermediates"

jenny tilsen

Education, Curriculum, and Instruction Advisor(s): Bhaskar Upadhyay, Stefanie Marshall "STEMtelling: A pedagogical tool for storytelling in science education towards epistemic justice"

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sultan Toprak Oker

History Advisor(s): Giancarlo Casale "The Alcohol Networks of Ottoman Istanbul in the Seventeenth Century"

Chemistry Advisor(s): Christy Haynes "Silica Nanoparticles for Sustainable Agriculture"

dana urbanski

Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Advisor(s): Peggy Nelson "Examining the Usefulness of Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids for Community-Dwelling Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment"

joseph vallin

Chemical Engineering Advisor(s): Samira Azarin "Elucidating the Role of Dendritic Cells in a Focally Ablated Tumor Microenvironment Towards the Design of Innovative Biomaterial Cancer Vaccines"

Education, Curriculum, and Instruction Advisor(s): Bic Ngo, Vichet Chhuon "An exploratory study of HMoob teaching and learning opportunities"

daniel Vásquez Vega

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Psychology Advisor(s): Alex Rothman, Traci Mann "Identification and Test of Health Behavior Change Theories' Assumptions: An Investigation of Affective Reflective Theory with Longitudinal Physical Activity Data"

zengtao wang

Pharmaceutics Advisor(s): Karunya Kandimalla "Anomalous amyloid-beta exposure and insulin resistance induce blood-brain barrier dysfunction (BBB) in Alzheimer’s disease"

solvejg wastvedt

Biostatistics Advisor(s): Julian Wolfson, Jared Huling "Fairness in clinical risk prediction: Intersectional, counterfactual metrics"

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Natural Resources Science and Management Advisor(s): Rebecca Montgomery "Management, pathogen survival, and forest gap dynamics in oak wilt infection centers"

Weijie zhang

Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology Advisor(s): R. Stephanie Huang "Computational Drug Discovery for Advanced Prostate Cancers"

wenjuan zhang

Pharmaceutics  Advisor(s): William Elmquist "Optimizing Drug Exposure, Potency and Efficacy for the Treatment of Brain Tumors"

Electrical Engineering Advisor(s): Yahya Tousi "Distributed mmWave Radar System for Localization and Imaging"

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Thomas J. Sargent Dissertation Fellowship

Call for applications for 2023 program

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco invites applicants for the 2023 Thomas J. Sargent Dissertation Fellowship program. The summer fellowship offers doctoral candidates the opportunity to meet with research economists and visiting faculty, make progress on their dissertation research, and receive mentorship from senior economists.

Dissertation fellows attend department seminars, discuss research projects with San Francisco Fed economists, and participate in Bank social activities. The fellowship carries a stipend.

Candidates are sought in the fields of macroeconomics, international trade, financial economics, environmental economics, urban economics, and labor economics. Potential synergies with department economists will be taken into consideration in the selection of fellows.

Fellowship details

Qualifications and requirements

Fellowships are open to PhD students from all doctorate-granting colleges and universities.

Applicants must:

• Have passed their PhD qualifying examination
• Be at the dissertation-writing stage at a U.S. university
• Be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or a non-resident student visa holder
• Reside in the San Francisco Bay Area for the duration of the fellowship as scheduled for six weeks during June to September 2023 (six weeks chosen by fellow)

Please email application packet to [email protected] with the following:

• Sample research paper
• Cover letter
• Two letters of reference (sent directly from letter writers)
• March 17, 2023: Applications deadline
• Early April 2023: Application review and selection
• June–September 2023: 6-week fellowship

I had a great summer at the San Francisco Fed in 2016! I met new people, made new friends, and started new research projects. It’s an amazing place with dozens of economists eager to hear about your research and discuss their own. – Neil White, UT Austin, 2016 Dissertation Fellow

Spending the summer at the FRBSF was a truly formative experience for me both personally and professionally. Through daily discussions with members of the economics research team and by presenting in the seminar series, I received valuable input on my research ideas and insights from new and different perspectives. Thanks for letting me join the team last summer, I am very grateful for the hospitality and opportunity extended to me. – Dmitri Koustas, UC Berkeley, 2016 Dissertation Fellow

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our people proudly reflect the diversity and ideas of the communities we serve.

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

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International Center Fellows

Fellowships:.

• Melissa Adler,  Assistant Professor, Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario. “Informing a Colonial Imaginary: Studies in Thomas Jefferson’s Data Science”
• Jim Ambuske,  Historian and Senior Producer at R2 Studios, the podcast division of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. “The Fury of Emigration: Scotland, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire”
• Nicholas Bell-Romero,  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Legacies of Enslavement Inquiry at the University of Cambridge. “Fighting Words in the American Revolution, 1763-87”
• Stephen Bygrave,  Professor of English, University of Southampton. “Gunpowder Joe: Joseph Priestley and the Rhetoric of Dissenting Culture”
• Frank Cogliano,  Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. “Heirs to Empire: Washington, Jefferson and the Meaning of the American Revolution”
• Charles Cullen,  Twice-retired historian, former Interim President and CEO at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. “Jefferson’s President’s House Dinner List, 1804-1809”
• Bartosz Dudek,  Head of the Polish Service of Germany’s Deutsche Welle. “Jefferson and Kosciuszko, two different friends”
• Jacinthe Greywoode, Composer, arranger, and musical director. “Black Girl in Paris” (in partnership with AriDy Nox)
• Jean-Baptiste Goyard,  Associate Professor in English, University of Versailles. “the Reference to Greek and Roman Antiquity in the Founding of the United States of America: Republic, Federalism, Empire, 1755-1791” 
• Evan Haefeli,  Professor of History, Texas A&M University. “Thomas Jefferson, Anti-popery and the Making of Early America”
• Michael Hartman,  Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. “Art, Technology, and Aesthetics within Landscapes of Enslavement in the Colonial South, 1740-1810”
• Johanna Heide,  PhD Fellow, University of Potsdam. “Sally Hemmings: Forced Itinerancy as a Site of Possibility?”
• Stephen Lloyd,  Curator, the Derby Collection at Knowsley Hall. “Towards an art historical biography of Maria Cosway: The American connection”
• James Mackay,  Ph.D. candidate, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. “’What they call free in this country’: Refugees from Slavery in Revolutionary America, 1775-1783”
• Molly Martien,  Americana Foundation Curatorial Fellow. “ ‘… tell Johnny Hemmings to finish off immediately the frame for the round table’: A Case Study of Enslaved Cabinetmaker John Hemmings and the Output from the Monticello Joiner’s Shop”
• Mark Alan Mattes,  Assistant Professor of English, University of Louisville. “Archival Apocrypha: Indigenous Writing and the Figure of Logan in Colonial and Native American History”
• Jeanie Grant Moore, Professor of English (retired), University of San Diego. “The Sage of Monticello and the Sweet Swan of Avon”
• Kenneth Morgan, Professor of History, Department of Politics and History, Brunel University, London. “The Abolition of the Slave Trade to the United States”
• Cody Nager,  Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, the Graduate Center, City University of New York. “From Different Quarters: Regulating Migration and Naturalization in the Early American Republic”
• AriDy Nox,  multi-disciplinary storyteller, “Black Girl in Paris” (in partnership with Jacinthe Greywoode)
• Luke Pecoraro,  Director of Archaeology, Drayton Hall Preservation Trust. “What the Sub-floor Pit Holds: Musical Instruments as a missing artifact in the archaeological record”. DAACS-ICJS Fellow.  
• Laura Sandy,  co-director of the Center for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool. “’Clever,’ ‘Industrious,’ and ‘Well Qualified’ Women: The Role of Non-Elite and Enslaved Women on Jefferson and Washington’s Plantations”
• Holly Shulman,  Historian and documentary editor, The Dolley Madison Digital Edition. “Lest Our Black People Should Suffer. Essays and Documents: Dolley Madison and the Montpelier Enslaved Community”
• Emily West,  Professor of History, University of Reading. “Food, Power, and Resistance in US Slavery”
• Linda Binsted , Senior Associate, URS/AECOM. "Brick Palladian Architecture: Jefferson's Transformation of Stone to Clay."
• Andrew Fagal , Associate Editor,  The Papers of Thomas Jefferson . "Arsenal of Liberty: The Political Economy of War in the Early Republic, 1775-1825."
• Emily Greenfield , Ph.D. candidate in history, Stanford University. "Beyond the Script: Slavery, Race, and Memory at a Public Monticello."
• Daniel Gullotta , Ph.D. candidate in American religious history at Stanford University. "Pious Jeffersonianism: The Rise of Andrew Jackson and the Transformation of American Religious Politics."
• Clifford Humphrey , Ph.D. candidate in politics at the Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship, Hillsdale College. "Nicholas Trist's Vindication of Thomas Jefferson from the Charge of Supporting Nullification."
• Andrew Kettler , Ph.D., Research Associate, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. "The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World."
• Sue Kozel , History Adjunct Instructor (Retired), Kean University. "Thomas Jefferson's Complicated Friends."
• Christopher Pearl , Associate Professor of History, Lycoming College. "The War Executives: Debating and Creating Executive Power during the American Revolutionary War."
• Alyssa Penick , Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellowship, Age of Jefferson, Jefferson Scholars Foundation, University of Virginia. "Church, State, and Institutional Slaveholding in Early National Virginia."
• Emelia Robertson , Ph.D. candidate in English Language and Literature, University of Michigan. "Cultivating Conviviality: Alcohol, Jeffersonian Sociability, and Monticello's Object-Scapes."
• Laura Sandy , Senior Lecturer in the History of American Slavery, University of Liverpool; Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery. "'Clever,' 'Industrious,' and 'Well Qualified' Women: The Role of Non-Elite and Enslaved Women on Jefferson and Washington's Plantations."
• Holly Shulman , Editor-in-Chief, Dolley Madison Digital Edition. "Lest Our People Should Suffer: Dolley Madison and the Montpelier Enslaved Community."
• Patrick Spero , Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library. 
• Grant Stanton , Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania. "The (In)Dignity of Man: Morality and the Politics of Insult in Revolutionary America."
• Matthew Steilen , Professor, School of Law, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. "Violence and Peace in Virginia Legal Culture."
• John Van Horne , Director Emeritus, Library Company of Philadelphia. "Philadelphia's Earliest Museums, 1782-1827: Reconstructing a City's Visual Culture."
• Laurent Zecchini , Journalist. "Jefferson, the most 'French' of all the American Presidents."
• Brian Alexander , Assistant Professor and Director of Washington Term, Washington and Lee University. "Jefferson's  Manual : New Evidence and a New Case for Considering Jefferson's Role and Influence on American Parliamentary Law"
• Alexi Garrett , Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia. "'With an avowed intention to beat down all its competitors': Unfree Labor and Market Competition in the Richmond, Virginia Nail-making Industry, 1800-1815"
• Loren Ludwig , Ph.D., Critical and Comparative Studies in Music, University of Virginia. "The Jefferson Project: String Playing in Jefferson's Virginia"
• David McCormick , MA, Founding Director, vielle and baroque violin, Early Access Music Project. "The Jefferson Project: String Playing in Jefferson's Virginia" 
• Dianne Pierce , Corcoran School of Design, George Washington University and Department of Art History, State University of New York at New Paltz. "'That Looks Like a Good Subject': Marie Goebel Kimball's Significant Contributions to Jefferson Scholarship and the Early Years of Monticello as a Public Site"

Due to COVID-19, a majority of 2020 fellowships were postponed until 2021. Click here to Meet our Class of 2021 Short-Term Fellows.

• Cameron Addis , History Professor, Austin Community College. "Statues & Guns: Jefferson, UVA and Amendments 1-2"
• Catalin Avramescu , Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest. "Thomas Jefferson and the World of the East India Company"
• Kristen Brill , Lecturer in American History, Keele University, UK. "'Just as Ann Pamela Cunningham Said No': The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and Maud Littleton's Monticello"
• Trevor Burnard , (incoming) Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation and Director of the Wilberforce Institute. "Security, Taxation and the Imperial State of Jamaica, 1721-1782"
• Amanda Doggett , Historic Trades and Skills of Colonial Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. "John Hemmings and the Monticello Joinery: Life and Work as Defined by the Institution of Slavery"
• Joe Eaton , Associate Professor of History at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. "The Election of 1796 and the Contest over American Nationalism"
• Ayana Flewellen , Ph.D., UC Berkeley President's Postdoctoral Fellow. "A Black Feminist Archaeology of Adornment in Post-emancipation Texas"
• Daniel Graves , Ph.D. candidate in Classics and History, Yale University. "Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, and the Classics"
• Sally Hadden , Associate Professor of History, Western Michigan University. "Governors' Councils and the Judicial Process of Early America"
• J.C. Hallman , Independent Scholar. "The Anarcha Quest: A Story of Slavery and Surgery"
• Donald Johnson , Assistant Professor of History, North Dakota State University. "Thirteen Clocks: Popular Statecraft and the Coming of American Independence" 
• Michael Klapka , U.S. History teacher, Largo High School (FL) and Adjunct Instructor of U.S. History, St. Petersburg College. "Fake News: Thomas Jefferson, Politics and Newspapers"
• Daniel   Livesay , Associate Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College. "Endless Bondage: Slavery in Old Age and the Origins of Paternalism"
• Grace Mallon , DPhil candidate in U.S. History, University of Oxford. "Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Government, and the Federal System, 1789-1801"
• Laura McCoy , Ph.D. candidate in History, Northwestern University. "Compensatory Affections: Reconciling Financial and Emotional Debt within 19th-Century Virginia Gentry Families"
• Ngeri Nnachi , Ph.D. candidate, University of Maryland - Baltimore County. "Educated and Enslaved: How Plantation Life Supported the Literacy of Black Children"
• George Oberle , Ph.D., History Liaison Librarian, Affiliate Faculty and Adjunct Professor, George Mason University. "Education for an 'Empire of Liberty': Science and Citizenship in the Early Republic"
• Bruce Ragsdale , Ph.D., Independent Scholar. "Jefferson, Washington, and the World of Agricultural Improvement"
• Seth Rockman , Associate Professor of History, Brown University. "Plantation Goods and the Material Politics of American Slavery"
• Udeni Salmon , Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln, Honorary Research Associate at the University of Keele, and Lecturer at King's Business School at King's College London. "Comparative Study of Slave Housing between Antebellum Era Slavery and Modern Slavery"
• Laura Sandy , Lecturer in the History of Slavery, University of Liverpool; Co-director of the Centre for the International Study of Slavery. "A Tale of Two Masters: Managing Enslaved Labour at Mount Vernon and Monticello"
• Patrick Spero , Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library. "Parallel Paths: The Urban and Rural Imperial Crisis"
• Hannah Knox Tucker , Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia. "Risky Business: Balancing Risk and Reward in the Colonial Atlantic"
• John Van Horne , Director Emeritus, The Library Company of Philadelphia. "Philadelphia's Earliest Museums, 1782-1827: Reconstructing a City's Visual Center"
• Anna Vincenzi , Ph.D. candidate, University of Notre Dame. "Misunderstood Revolutionary Hero: Filippo Mazzei in the Age of Revolution"
• Melissa Adler , Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, Western University, Ontario. "A 'peculiar satisfaction': Thomas Jefferson's Disciplinary Imagination"
• Karin Altenberg , Ph.D, British Library Eccles Center Makin Fellows, Fellow Linnean Society. "A Legend of Rivers"
• George Boudreau , McNeil Center for Early American Studies. "The Front Lines of Early American History: Complicating (and Improving) the Interpretation of Anglo-American Sites
• Andy Cabot , Ph.D. candidate, Anglophone Studies Department, University Paris Diderot VII. "Thomas Jefferson and the Global Destiny of Slavery: Interpreting Jefferson's Views on American Slavery in a Global Context"
• Dean Caivano , Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto. "Jefferson Against the State: A Politico-Historical Account of Radical Domestic Thought"
• Andrew Cecchinato , Ph.D. candidate in Legal History, Doctoral School in Comparative and European Legan Studies, School of Law, University of Trento. "The Constitutional Purpose of Jefferson's Doctrine on Tyranny"
• Daniel Cornette , J.D., Attorney Advisor, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. "The Tea Act Crisis of 1773"
• Neal David Curtis , Ph.D. candidate, English Department, University of Virginia. "Jefferson's Dual Monument: The Rotunda (Library)"
• Kyle Edwards , Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia. "'My cabins are yet to be seen only on paper...': Rediscovering the Plantation Landscape at James Monroe's Highland"
• Ywone Edwards-Ingram , Independent Scholar. "Thomas Jefferson's Coachmen of African Ancestry and other Heritages"
• Montia Gardne r, Ph.D. candidate, Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Maryland - Baltimore County. "The Reproductive Resistance of Enslaved Women in the Antebellum South"
• Miriam Gordon-Stewart , Artistic Director, Victory Hall Opera. "Monticello Overheard"
• Alley Jordan , Ph.D. candidate, University of Edinburgh. "The Healing Power of Nature: Thomas Jefferson's Englightenment Explanations for Race in Early America"
• Jung-Hwa Kim , Fellow, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University. "Legacies of Gardens on Education and Enlightenment: Jefferson's Botanical Garden at the University of Virginia and Yun's Garden at the Anglo-Korean School"
• Samuel Lemley , Ph.D. candidate, English Department, University of Virginia. "Jefferson's Dual Monument: The Rotunda (Library)"
• Maria Cristina Loi , Politechnico di Milano, Italy, "The Italy of Thomas Jefferson: Filippo Mazzei, Andrea Palladio, Antique Rome"
• John McCusker , Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor Emeritus of American History and Professor Emeritus of Economics, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
• Travis McDonald , Director of Architectural Research, Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. "The Restoration and Architectural Significance of Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest"
• Brenda Patterson , Director of Music, Victory Hall Opera. "Monticello Overheard"
• Lisa Perrone , Adjunct Assistant Profesor of Italian, Bucknell University. "Stimatissimo Signore, e Amico Carissimo: Thomas Jefferson, Italy, and the Republic of Letters"
• Cara Rogers , Ph.D. candidate in History, Rice University. "Jefferson's Sons:  Notes of the State of Virginia  and American Antislavery, 1769-1832"
• Elizabeth Dowling Taylor , Ph.D., Independent Scholar, Lecturer, and Author. "Margaret Bayard Smith" biography
• Stephanie Seal Walters , Ph.D. candidate, George Mason University. "'As I GLORY in the name of TORY': Loyalism, Community, and Memory in Revolutionary Virginia, 1765-1800"
• Christopher Bates , BA, MA, Kimbolton School, Cambridgeshire, England.  "Jefferson's Table - a play about the Monticello family, 1778-1782"
• Rebecca Brannon , Associate Professor of History, James Madison University.  "Thomas Jefferson as an Old Man"
• Nicole Brown , Character Interpreter, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.  "Reimagining the Ladies: Understanding Women's Education in Colonial Virginia"
• Ivo Cerman ,  Ph.D., Department of History, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. "Natural Rights After the Revolution: Shaky Foundations of a Legal Order?"
• Frank Cogliano , Professor of American History and Dean International (North America), University of Edinburgh. "Jefferson and Washington: It's Complicated"
• Andrew Mitchell Davenport , MA Candidate, Fairfield University; Social Studies teacher, Fairfield College Preparatory School, Connecticut. "Tell Me That: Getting Word and a Tale of 'Rememory'"
• Sean Devlin , Ph.D. candidate, and minor in History, University of Minnesota. "The Social Landscape of White Domestic Space at a Jamaican Sugar Estate, 1760-1820"
• Anthony Di Lorenzo , Ph.D., Assistant Professor of American History, Savannah State University.  "Transatlantic Radicalism and Antislavery in the Early American Republic"
• Mary Draper , Ph. D., Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia. "British Caribbean Cities in the Age of Jefferson"
• Julie Flavell , Ph.D., Independent Scholar. "Family Under Seige: The Howe Dynasty and British Military Failures, 1776-1778"
• Erika Gibson , Undergraduate Student in History and Philosophy (May 2017) and Master's Degree in War and Society candidate (May 2018), Chapman University, California.  "'Frenchified': French cuisine and salon culture in Jefferson's White House"
• George Goodwin , FrHistS, FRSA, 2017 Eccles Center Makin Fellow at the British Library.  "Americans in Londong and Paris during the Revolutionary War and the resonance of the United States' ariticulation of independence by Thomas Jefferson and others & 'How ideological was the American Revolution in its contemporary impact in London and Paris?'"
• Andrew Johnson , Ph.D. candidate, Rice University.  "' Indian  Women to Work in the Field': Planters, Agriculture, and the Making of a South Carolina Slave Society"
• Cynthia Kierner , Professor of History, George Mason University.  "Disaster Relief in Jefferson's America"
• Emma Macleod , Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in History, University of Stirling, Scotland, U.K. "Trying the State: State Trials in the 1790s in Britain and the United States of America"
• Jamie Macpherson , Ph.D. Candidate, University of Stirling, Scotland, U.K. "Adams and Jefferson: The Politics of Friendship"
• Ashbell Mcelveen , Chef. "1,000 Years in Culinary Fusion: European and African Influences on Colonial Cooking in Virginia"
• Laura McCoy , Ph.D. candidate in History, Northwestern University.  "Ellen Randolph Coolidge and Emotion Work in the Early Republic"
• John McCusker , Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor Emeritus of American History and Professor Emeritus of Economics, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.  "Whiskey"
• Richard Middleton , former Professor of British and American History, Queen's University, Belfast.  "The Clinton-Cornwallis Controversy and Responsibility for the British Surrender at Yorktown"
• Sandra Rebok , Ph.D., Independent Scholar. "Humboldt's Empire of Knowledge: From the Spanish Royal Court to the White House"
• Xavier F. Salomon , Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, New York.  "Canova's George Washington"
• Kathleen Schnurr , MA in Architectural History, University of Virginia; Art Teacher, St. Francis Preparatory School, Fresh Meadows, New York, NY. "Making Space: A Visual Story of Enslaved People at Monticello"
• Chet'la Sebree , Poet. "Mistress"
• Matthew Steilen , Associate Professor, University of Buffalo, School of Law, The State University of New York.  "Attainder and the Institutional Forms of Law in War"
• John van Horne , Director Emeritus of the Library Company of Philadelphia.  "A Digital Reconstruction of Thomas Jefferson's '3 volumes bound in marbled paper'"
• Wil Verhoeven , Professor of American Culture and Cultural Theory and Chair of the American Studies Department, Groningen University, the Netherlands. "Jefferson's Muses: The Equivocal Science of Politics"
• Sally (Chengji) Xing , Ph. D. Candidate, Columbia University.  "'Prince and Pauper': Re-evaluating the Two Toms of Revolutionary America, Jefferson and Paine"
• Stephen Bending , Senior Lecturer in English, and Director of the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Southampton, England.  "Pleasure Gardens and the Problems of Pleasure"
• Carly Brown , Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Glasgow.  "Revolutionary America: A Novel and Essay"
• Chelsea Berry , Ph.D. Candidate at Georgetown University.  "Poisoned Relations: Medicine, Sorcery, and Poison Trails in the Greater Caribbean, 1690-1850"
• Tom Chaffin , Ph.D., author and recent Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  "Trails Long and Severe: Recovering the Friendship of Jefferson and Lafayette"
• Daniel E. Clinkman , Humanities Teacher at Hilton Head Preparatory School.  "An End to 'Feudal and Unnatural Distictions': Feudal Tenure and Land Reform in Jefferson's Revolutionary Settlement"
• Emily Cock , Research Assisant in Medical History, the University of Winchester.  "Proportionare Maiming: Thomas Jefferson's Provisions for Facial Disfigurement in Bill 64"
• Frank Cogliano , Professor of History and Dean International at Edinburgh University. "The Use and Abuse of History in the 'War on Terror': The Strange Career of Thomas Jefferson"
• Carolyn Eastman , Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University.  "The Strange Genius of Mr. O: Celebrity and the Invention of the United States"
• James Fichter , Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Hong Kong.  "The 'sensitive patriotism' of Tea: Enforcing Prohibition and Ignoring Prohibition during the Continental Association, 1775-1776"
• Alison Games , Department of History, Georgetown University.  "Massacres and Memory: The Eighteenth-Century Legacies of the Amboyna Massacre"
• Dominic Hennessy , Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland, Australia.  "Agricultural Improvement on English Estates and Virginia Plantations"
• Malte Hinrichsen , Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Hamburg, Germany.  "Jefferson, Race, and Racism"
• Holly Mayer , Associate Professor of History at Duquesne University.  "Congress's Own: Constructing at Continental (Army) Community"
• William G. Merkel , Associate Professor of Law, The Charleston School of Law, Charleston, South Carolina.  "The Jefferson Presidency as Prototype of the Un-checkable Executive?"
• Nelson Mundell , Leverhulme Trust funded PhD candidate and Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow.  "Scottish émigrés newspapers editors and representations of race, ethnicity and otherness"
• Paula Saunders ,   Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York. "Thomas Jefferson and Enlightenment Ideology in Plantation Management"

Chet'la Sebree , Poet.  "Mistress"

Barry Alan Shain , Professor of Political Science at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.  "Revolutionary-era Pamphlet Literature in Context"

Hannah Spahn , University of Potsdam.  "Jefferson as Character and Caricature in Nineteenth-Century African American Thought"

Gregory J.W. Urwin , Professor of History, Temple University.  "When Freedom Wore a Red Coat: A Social History of the 1781 British Invasions of Virginia"

John van Horne , Director Emeritus of the Library Company of Philadelphia.  "A Tale of Two Polymaths: Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Henry Latrobe"

• Colin Allen , Provost's Professor at Indiana University.  “Thomas Jefferson's Mind: Polymathic and Polygraphic”
• Sarah (Sally) Barringer Gordon , Arlin M Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.  “Slavery, Religion and Disestablishment in Virginia”
• T.H. Breen , The William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern University, Emeritus and the James Marsh Professor at-large, University of Vermont.  "The Dog That Did Not Bite: Reflections on Law and Disorder During the American War for Independence"
• Sherri Burr , Dickason Chair, University of New Mexico School of Law.  "Thomas Jefferson and the Free Blacks of Virginia"
• Andrew Cecchinato , Ph.D. candidate in Legal History at the Doctoral School in Comparative and European Legal Studies of the University of Trento, Italy.  "The Legal Education of Thomas Jefferson"
• Lindsay Chervinsky , Ph.D. candidate n Early American History at the University of California, Davis.  “The First Presidential Cabinet: The State, Military, and British Origins, 1700-1800”
• Iris de Rode , Ph.D. candidate in History of International Relations at Université Paris 8, in Paris, France.  "Francois Jean de Chastellux' image of British America (late 18th century)"
• Nouh El Harmouzi , Editor of the Arabic-language news and analysis site MinbarAlHurriyya.org and professor at Ibn Toufail University.  "What Can the Arab World Draw From the Legacy of Thomas Jefferson?"
• Cho-Chien Feng , PhD Candidate, History Department, Saint Louis University.   “Fighting for Their Own Liberty: The Political Culture of Loyalists, 1770-1783”
• Brent Fortenberry , Archaeological and Architectural Researcher at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center of the Clemson University Restoration Institute in Charleston, South Carolina. “Archaeological and Architectural Investigations at the Gardener’s Cottage–Perspectives on the African Diaspora from Bermuda”
• Nicholas Guyatt , University Lecturer in North American History at the University of Cambridge.  “Bind Us Apart: A Prehistory of ‘Separate but Equal’”
• Brandy Joy , graduate student at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.  “Silver Bluff Plantation and Trading Post: A Study of Material Diversity As a Reflection of the Lived Experience in the Carolina Frontier”
• Joseph Lasala , architectural media consultant at McGraw-Hill.  “Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings”
• J. Kent McGaughy , Ph.D., Professor of History at Houston Community College, Northwest.  “General Conway’s Conspiracy and the Forgotten History of the American Revolution”
• Duncan Ogaro Mikae , Mandela Washington Fellow and Founder of Bizhub Africa.  "Understanding the Effect of Religious Strife in Virginia and How it Affected National U.S. Politics"
• Jennifer Milam , Professor of Art History and Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.  "Thomas Jefferson and the Planting of Cosmopolitan Ideals"
• Jaimie Murdock , joint PhD Student in Cognitive Science and Informatics at Indiana.  Thomas Jefferson's Mind: Polymathic and Polygraphic”
• John Nagy , Scholar in Residence at Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania.  “Thomas Jefferson and Encrypted Correspondence”
• Barbara Oberg , senior research scholar in the Department of History at Princeton University, where she served as Editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson from 1999-2014.  “Autobiographical Musings”
• Nikos Pappas , Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Alabama.  “Martha Wayles Jefferson, Peter Pelham, and the Production and Reception of European Music in Late-Colonial Virginia”
• Robert A. Selig , Ph.D., Historical Consultant and Project Historian, Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail.  “The American Campaigns of Georg Daniel Flohr, Fusilier, Regiment Royal Deux-Ponts, 1780-1783’
• Jonathan Singerton , Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Edinburgh.  “Thomas Jefferson and the Habsburg Monarchy: Intrigue and Statecraft 1783-1787”
• John van Horne , Ph.D., Director Emeritus of the Library Company of Philadelphia.  “Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Henry Latrobe: Kindred Spirits

Wil Verhoeven , Professor of American Culture and Cultural Theory and Chair of the American Studies Department at Groningen University, the Netherlands.  "When Size Mattered Most: American Degeneracy Theory and Jefferson's Diplomacy for the New Nation"

• Wendy Wong , Ph. D., Research Associate at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.  “Jefferson, Neutrality, Slavery, and the Information Technology of Print”
• Hayden Bassett , DAACS Fellowship, Ph.D. candidate, Historical Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, The College of William & Mary, “Dwelling Spaces of Enslavement in Plantation Jamaica: A Relational Landscape Survey of 18 th and 19 th -century Good Hope Estate.”
• Marta Benedetti ,  Ph.D. student in Foreign Languages and Literature at the Università  Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, “Stoic and Epicurean Philosophies in Thomas Jefferson.”
• Lindsay Bloch , DAACS Fellowship, Doctoral candidate, Anthropology Department, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Plantation Social and Economic Strategies through Coarse Earthenware.”
• Tom Cutterham ,  DPhil candidate, St Hugh’s College, Oxford University, “Cosmopolitan Vices: Thomas Jefferson and Angelica Schuyler Church.”
• Anthony DiLorenzo ,  Ph.D candidate in History at Loyola University Chicago, “Liberties and Conscience:  The Language of Religious Freedom and Politics of Association in the Atlantic World.”
• Thomas Dikant , Postdoctoral Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, “Jefferson’s Statistics:  The Method of Notes on the State of Virginia .”
• Randi Lewis Flaherty , Ph.D. candidate, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, “The Atlantic Origins of Early American Trade to the Indian Ocean.”
• Marie Frank , Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Cultural Studies, Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, “Fiske Kimball and the Arts in America.”
• George Goodwin , MA (Cantab.), FCIM, FRSA, and author, “Jefferson and Franklin 1774-5 ‘Britons in Protest’.”
• Sun Hongzhe , M.Phil., American History, Peking University, “‘Those Golden Regions to Explore/Where George Forbade to Sail Before.’ The China Trade of the Early American Republic Reconsidered.”
• Francois Specq , Professor of American Literature and Culture, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, “Jefferson’s Belated Return to France: Translating Notes for the 21 st Century.”
• Larisa Troitskaia , Center for North American Studies of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “Thomas Jefferson, Jeffersonian America and Great Britain.”
• Maurizio Valsania , Professor of American History, University of Torino, “Jefferson’s Bodies.”
• Gayle Jessup White , Independent Researcher, “The Robinsons and Jefferson/Randolphs.”
• Tomasz Wieciech , Adjunct Professor in Chair of Constitutionalism and Governmental Systems, Jagiellonian University,  “Thomas Jefferson and John Cartwright.  The English – American Constitutional Dialogue in the XVIII and Early XIX century.”
• Danielle Willkens ,  Associate AIA, FRSA, Ph.D. candidate at University College London’s Bartlett School of Architecture and a practicing architectural designer, “…to add a drop of water”:  Buildings, Objects, and Exchange in the Transatlantic Design Network, 1760s-1830s.”
• Dustin Gish , Political Science Department Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, "Republican Constitutionalism in Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia ."
• Rahma Jerad , Assistant Professor at the University of Tunis, "Thomas Jefferson's Grandson-in-law and the Defense of Slavery in Cuba."
• Jane Judge , Ph.D. candidate, the University of Edinburgh, "Belgians, Jefferson and the Age of Revolution, 1789-1790."
• Rosa Lopez-Oceguera , Professor and Researcher with the Center for U.S. Studies, University of Havana, "Jefferson, Founding Father."
• Whitney Martinko , Ph.D. candidate in American History, University of Virginia, "Individuality, Imagination, and Interiors"  The Making of Sacred Historical Space in Antebellum America."
• Kirsten Paine , Ph.D. candidate in English, University of Pittsburgh, "Jefferson and Scottish Folk Music:  Transatlantic Highland and Lowland Connections in Eighteenth-Century America."
• Edward Pompeian , Ph.D. candidate in American History, College of William and Mary, "Jefferson and South America:  Revolutionary Problems and Independence Struggles, 178601823."
• Katarzyna Stelmasiak , Assistant Professor in History, the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, "Thomas Jefferson and Europe."
• Sally Tuckett , Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh, "Cloth, Clothing and Control:  Textile Production at Monticello, 1770-1826."
• Marc Alexander , University of Glasgow, "To Be Translated from Despotism to Liberty: A Linguistic Perspective on Liberty and Revolution in Jefferson's Writing.”
• Zach Beier , Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, Syracuse University, "The Reconciled Frontier and It's Makers:  Design for the Boers of Early America."
• Frank Cogliano , University of Edinburgh, Professor of American History and Dean for North America, Emperor of Liberty:  Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2014).
• Alan Pell Crawford , Independent Scholar, "Thomas Jefferson and George Washington:  Comity and Conflict in Revolutionary America."
• Michael Demson , Assisstant Professor in English, Sam Houston State University, "Jefferson and the Radical Agrarian Politics of Trans-Atlantic Romanticism."
• Jason Farr , Ph.D. candidate in Early American History, University of Virginia, "Centering the Periphery:  American Independence and Jefferson's Western Vision."
• David Flaherty , University of Virginia, “Improvising and Enlarging Your Majesty’s Dominions in America: The Board of Trade’s Vision for a British Atlantic Empire, 1713-1763.”
• Robert Forbes , University of Connecticut, “‘It Eludes the Research of All the Senses’: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia and the Reification of Race.”
• Brett Goodin , Ph.D. candidate in History, Australian National University, "Victims of Independence:  A collective biography of Barbary captives in the New Republic, 1785-1840."
• Nathaniel Green , Ph.D. candidate in History, Washington University, St. Louis, "'The Man of the People:' National Politics and the Origins of the Presidential Republic, 1787-1817"
• Douglas Harnsberger , Principal at Legacy Architecture, “Case Studies in Jefferson Delorme Dome Constructions Technology: Research and Analysis of Three American Delorme Domes by Architects Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Latrobe, and Robert Mills.”
• Yishi Liu , Post Doctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, School of Architecture, "From UVa to Tsinghua:  Jefferson's Legacy on Modern Campus Design in China."
• Richard MacKenney , Professor of History, State University of New York at Binghamton, "Jefferson and the concept of 'Renaissance man.'"
• Kenneth Morgan , Professor of History, Brunel University, London, “Ending the Slave Trade: A Comparative Perspective on Britain and the United States, 1807-8.”
• Matthew Spooner , Ph.D. Candidate in History, Columbia University, “Origins of the Old South: The Reconstruction of Southern Slavery, 1778-1808.”
• Cameron Strang , McNeil Fellow, Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Texas at Austin, "Star-Crossed Empires:  Astronomy and United States Expansion in the Spanish American Borderlands, 1795-1810."
• Sarah Stroud , Ph.D. Candidate, Syracuse University, “Establishing the South Carolina Frontier: One Plantation, Two Generations.  Examining the Interactions and Implications of Trade, Enslavement and Capitalism from 1680-1734.”
• Alan Taylor , Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, “The Slave War of 1812.”
• Maria Troyanovsky , Leading Research Fellow, Moscow State University, "The Perception of the U.S. in Russian Hisotrical Thought."
• Lorena Walsh , Independent Scholar and Previous Historian at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, “Plantation Management in Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia.”
• Victoria Baker, Doctor of Musical Arts, Manhattan School of Music, "Music at Monticello: A Historic Window into Music and its Role in Colonial America from the Perspective of Thomas Jefferson."
• Zach Beier , DAACS Fellowship, Ph.D candidate in Anthropology, Syracuse University, "Comparative Approaches to Interpreting Archaeological Data from the Cabrits Garrison, Dominica."
• Amy Turner Bushnell , Adjunct Associate Professor of History, Brown University, and Invited Research Scholar, the John Carter Brown Library Brown University,"The Reconciled Frontier and Its Markers: A Design for the Borders of Early America."
• Meng Cai , Ph.D. candidate in American History, Peking University, " Reconstruction of Representative Democracy: The Constitutional Reforms in the Original States of the United States, 1820 – 1850."
• Josh Canale , Ph.D candidate, Binghamton University, "Establishing Legitimacy and Order: Executive Councils during the American Revolution 1775 – 1784.”
• Daniel Clinkman , Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Edinburgh, “Laboratory of Enlightenment: The Revolutionary Settlement in Early Republican Virginia.”
• Andrew Fagal , Ph.D. candidate in American History, Binghamton University, "The Jeffersonian Republicans and the Politics of Military Mobilization, 1790-1812."
• David Flaherty , Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Virginia, "British Visions of Empire and the Aggressive Imperial Project for the North American Frontier, 1713 – 1783."
• Jack P. Greene , Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of History, Johns Hopkins University Adjunct Professor of History, Brown University Invited Research Scholar, John Carter Brown Library, "Speaking of Empire: Coming to Terms with Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain, ca. 1730-1785."
• Kendra Hamilton , M.F.A. from Louisiana State University and Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, "The Chosen People of God: (Re)Inventing Agrarian Idealism from Jefferson's Yeoman Farmer to Slow Food."
• Kevin J. Hayes , Professor of English, University of Central Oklahoma, "Jefferson in His Own Time."
• Wesley Joyner , Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Southern Mississippi, “Second Families of Virginia: Professional Power-Brokers in a Revolutionary Age, 1700-1790.”
• David T. Konig , Professor of History and Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, "Thomas Jefferson and the Discovery of American Law."
• Iain Maciver , Ph.D. candidate in history, University of Edinburgh. “Revolutionary Governorship: A Comparative Study of the Nature of Gubernatorial power in Massachusetts and Virginia, 1763-1787.”
• Armin Mattes , UVA Dissertation Fellow, Ph.D candidate in History, University of Virginia, M.A. in History from the Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen ,"Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland:" The Transatlantic Context of the Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood, 1775-1840.”
• Louis McAuley , Assistant Professor, Department of English, Washington State University, "Creating a 'Perfect Union of Opinion': The Polygraph, 'Newspeak,' and Thomas Jefferson's Bid for the Presidency."
• John Moule , Headmaster, The Bedford School, "'General Washington did not harbor one principle of Federalism': Thomas Jefferson and the Collective Memory of George Washington.”
• Simon Newman , Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History, University of Glasgow, "Race and Bound Labor in the British Atlantic World: the Origins and Development of Racial Plantation Slavery."
• Christopher Pearl , Ph.D. candidate in American History, Binghamton University, "'For the Preservation of the State': Penal Reform and State Legitimacy during the American Revolution, 1776-1786."
• Rusty Roberson , Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of Edinburgh, “Scottish Missions and Religious Enlightenment in Colonial America: the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SSPCK) in Transatlantic Context.”
• Tom Rodgers , Ph.D. in History, University of Warwick, “The Boundaries of Coercion in the American Revolution, c. 1760-1789.”
• Daniel Royot , Professor Emeritus of American Literature and Civilization at L'Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, “The Trans-Mississippi West at stake: from the triumph of discovery to the hazards of Americanization, 1806-1812.”
• Eran Shalev , Assistant Professor, History Department, Haifa University, Israel. "'A Republic Amidst the Stars': Political Astronomy and the Intellectual Origins of the Stars and Stripes."
• Craig Smith , Ph.D. candidate in History, Brandeis University, "Rightly to be Great: Ideas of Honor and Virtue among the American Founders."
• Andrew Struan , Gilder Lehrman Research Fellow, Ph. D. candidate in History, University of Glasgow, "An Empire of Liberty?: Anglo-American Connections and the Idea of Empire during the American Revolutionary Period c. 1763-1783."
• Kelly Whitfield , Centennial Middle School, Phoenix, AZ .“Constitutional Rivalry.”
• Graeme Thomson , Ph.D candidate in History, University of Glasgow, "Claiming Jefferson: The Inheritance of the Founders' Legacy in Modern Presidential Rhetoric."
• Maurizio Valsania , Associate Professor of History of Philosophy, University of Torino, "Thomas Jefferson's Philosophical Anthropology."
• Andrea Wulf , M.A., R.C.A., History of Design, Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.  “Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation Created the American Eden.”
• Jing Yuan , Ph.D. candidate, Nankai University, "John Adams and the Idea of Republican Government."
• Kevin Butterfield , Ph.D. candidate, history, Washington University in St. Louis, “Unbound by Law:  Association and Autonomy in the Early American Republic.”
• Nathalie Caron , professor, American civilization, Universite de Paris 12, "The Significance and Limits of the French Radical Enlightenment on American Free Thought in the Early Years of the Republic."
• Louis Cellauro, Ph.D. Art History, University of London, England, “Thomas Jefferson, Palladio, and American Palladianism.”
• Irene Cheng , Monticello-McNeil Dissertation Fellow, Ph.D. candidate, architecture history and theory, Columbia University, “Thomas Jefferson’s Obsession with Octagons.”
• Ivor Conolley , Ph. D candidate, history and archaeology, DAACS Fellowship, University of the West Indies-Mona, Jamaica, “Statistical Analysis of Slave Sites.”
• Renaud Contini , Ph.D. candidate, history, National University of Ireland-Maynooth, Ireland,“Nurturing Utopia: Environmentalist Sensibilities, Empire and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1800-1806.”
• Matthew Crow , Ph.D. candidate, history, University of California-Los Angeles, “In the Course of Human Events:  Jefferson, Text, and the Potentialities of Law.”
• Luca Denora , Ph.D. candidate, 2010, philosophy, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, "The Reception of James Harrington's Works in the Political Thought of the American Revolution"
• James Donald , independent scholar, journalist, editor, England, “Alexander Donald and Thomas Jefferson.”
• Matthew Dziennik , Ph.D. candidate, 2010, history, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, "The Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America, 1756-1783."
• Alan Gibson , professor, political science, California State University-Chico, "Extending the Sphere: Size and Republicanism in the Early Republic."
• Grant Gilmore , Island Archaeologist and SECAR Director (St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research), Netherlands Antilles, “The Founding Fathers and the Golden Rock:  their Family, Commercial, Military and Religious Ties to Dutch St. Eustatius during the Formative Years.”
• Bryan Green , Ph.D., architectural history, University of Virginia, 2004, Architectural historian, associate and director of historic preservation, Commonwealth Architects, "'A Workman Could Scarcely Be Found': Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Craftsmen and the Renewal of Classical Architecture."
• Ginger Hill , Ph.D. candidate in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine, “Jefferson’s Domestic Publicity: Amassing Individuals as the Truly Modern and Universal.”
• Emilie Johnson , Ph.D. candidate in Art and Architectural History, University of Virginia, “The Old Plantation-Home: Ownership and Organization in the Old Southwest.”
• Csaba Levai , associate professor, Institute of History, University of Debrecen, Hungary, "Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson."
• Charlene Boyer Lewis , Chair of History and Director of American Studies, Kalamazoo College, "Every American His or Her Own Gardener: The Cultural Significance of Gardens and Gardening, 1750 to 1850."
• James Lewis , associate professor, Kalamazoo College, “Colonel Burr's Mysterious Movements: Making Sense of the Burr Conspiracy."
• Cedric Marcade , Ph.D. candidate, 2010, history, University of Rouen, France.  
• Iain McLean , Professor of Politics, Oxford University, UK. “Jefferson in Paris:  A Confluence of Three Rivers.”
• Kenneth Morgan , Professor of History, Brunel University, London, “The Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the United States.”
• Kenneth Owen , Ph.D candidate of history, The Queen's College, University of Oxford, England, "The Jeffersonian Election Campaign in Pennsylvania, 1796 and 1800."
• Jason Robles , Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Conscientious Democracy and Perpetual Becoming: The Unconscious Transplantation of Rousseauian Romanticism in Thomas Jefferson’s Moral and Political Thought.”
• Brian Steele , Assistant Professor of History, University of Alabama, Birmingham, "General Washington did not harbor one principle of Federalism': Thomas Jefferson and the Collective Memory of George Washington.”
• Taylor Stoermer , University of Virginia, “Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, and the Empire of Imagination: Disaffection in Revolutionary Virginia, 1770-1776.”
• Andrew Struan , Ph.D. candidate in History, University of Glasgow, “An Empire of Liberty? Anglo-American Connections and the Idea of Empire during the American Revolutionary Period, 1763-1783.”
• Jong Sang Sung , associate professor, landscape architecture, Seoul National University, Korea, "Thomas Jefferson and Kosan Sundo Yoon."
• Keith Thomson , American Philosophical Society, “Jefferson’s Natural History.”
• Epi Tohvri , lecturer, Tallinn University of Technology, Tartur College, Estonia, "Similar Educational Conceptions Applied by Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia and Georges-Frederic Parrot at the University of Tartu: A Case Study of the Trans-Atlantic Diffusion of the Light of Knowledge in the Enlightenment Era."
• Jessica L. Walker , Doctor of Philosophy, University of Western Australia, “‘Our Anglo-Saxon Ancestors’ – Thomas Jefferson and the Role of English History in the Construction of the American Nation.”
• Megan Walsh , Assistant Professor, Department of English, St. Bonaventure University,"A Nation in Sight: Vision, Citizenship and American Literature, 1770 – 1800."
• Nicholas Wood , Ph. D. candidate in History, University of Virginia, “The Slave Trades, the American Colonization Society, and the Missouri Crisis.”
• Andrea Wulf , M.A., R.C.A., History of Design, Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, independent writer and historian, The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created the American Eden (under contract with Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, to be published in 2011).
• Naomi Wulf , professor, American history and civilization, University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris 3, France,"The Jefferson Reference in the Critique of Jacksonian Democracy: Orestes Brownson as Case Study."
• Joanne Yeck , Ph.D., cinema studies, UCLA, 1982, "Snowden: A Plantation in Buckingham County and the People Who Lived There."
• Fred Anderson, University of Colorado-Boulder, "Imperial America, 1672-1764" (a volume in The Oxford History of the United States)
• Thomas Baker , State University of New York at Potsdam, "You Red-Headed Rascal:  Anonymous Writes Mr. Jefferson"
• George Boudreau , Pennsylvania State Capital College, "Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, and -€˜Useful Knowledge'"
• Trevor Burnard, University of Warwick, England, "An Empire for Liberty?  Jefferson's Empire for Liberty, Settler Discourses and the Late Eighteenth Century British Empire"
• Lyn Carson , University of Sydney, Australia, "Thomas Jefferson and Deliberative Democracy"
• Andrew Cayton, Miami University-Ohio, "Imperial America, 1672-1764" (a volume  in The Oxford History of the United States)
• Louis Cellauro , University of London, England, "Thomas Jefferson, Palladio, and American Palladianism"
• Ivor Conolley , DAACS Fellowship, University of the West Indies-Mona, Jamaica, "Statistical Analysis of Slave Sites"
• Cecelia Conway , Appalachian State University, "Monticello Traditional Music"
• Helen Cripe, researcher, author and editor on a wide range of projects and publications, "Thomas Jefferson and Music." updating the research she did previously for her book, Thomas Jefferson and Music , 1974.
• Suzanne Francis-Brown, DAACS Fellowship, University of the West Indies-Mona, Jamaica, "Slave Quarter Replication, Interpretation and Presentation"
• David Hancock , University of Michigan, "William Petty and His Associates Shaped the Contours of the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Community"
• Martha Hill , University of Virginia, "The Style of Power: The Role of Classicism in forming the American Republic"
• Joel Kovarsky , The Prime Meridian:  Antique Maps and Books,  "Foreshadowing Manifest Destiny -€“ The Geographic and Cartographic Imaginations of Thomas Jefferson"
• James Martin,  University of Houston, "The Governor and the Traitor: Thomas Jefferson versus Benedict Arnold"
• Iain McLean,  Oxford University, England,  "Jefferson  in Paris"
• William Merkel , Washburn Law School, "Jefferson and Slavery:  Legal and Constitutional Issues, 1801-1826"
• Marion Nelson, Virginia Commonwealth University, "Jefferson's Western Men and the -€˜Practicable Sphere' of the Republic" 
• Justin Roberts, Johns Hopkins University, "Sunup to Sundown:  Plantation Management Strategies and Slave Work Routines in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia, c1780-1810"
• Marie-Jeanne Rossignol , Institut Charles V, Université Paris-€“Diderot, France, The Bertrand  L. Taylor Fellowship Memorial Fellowship, "Thomas Jefferson and Antislavery: An Atlantic Perspective"
• Britt Rusert , Duke University, "The -€˜Peculiar Soil' of Slavery: Monticello and Plantation Ecology"
• Allison Stagg , University College, England, "American Political Caricatures, 1780-1810"
• Istvan Vida , University of Debrecen, Hungary, "Sustained by Mr. Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and the Invocation of Jeffersonian Ideals and Political Vision"
• Andrea Wulf , Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, England, The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation Created the American Eden
• Joanne Bowen , DAACS Fellowship, Department of Archeological Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, "Slave Provisioning"
• Pierangelo Castagneto, American University in Bulgaria, "Introducing Jefferson's Notes "
• Nicholas Cole, University College, Oxford University, England, "The Republican King:  Executive Power in America, 1774-1826"
• Fred Donnelly , University of New Brunswick, Canada, "The Jefferson-Lilburne Connection"
• Carrie Douglass , Anthropology, Mary Baldwin College, Virginia, "Thomas Jefferson and Horses"
• Steve Edenbo , Thomas Jefferson interpreter, independent scholar, Philadelphia, "Second Continental Congress"
• Theresa Goble, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio, London, "Music at Monticello"
• Lawrence Hatter , University of Virginia, "Sovereign Markets:  Commerce, State Formation, and the Division of the Great Lakes Borderland, 1783-1825"
• Michael Kranish , Washington Correspondent, The Boston Globe, "British Invasion of Virginia in 1781"
• Lichan Li , American History, Xiamen University, China, "The Personal Connections between Jefferson and China and the Role of China in the Economic thought and Philosophy of the Early Republic"
• Anna Marley , Art History, University of Delaware, "Rooms with a View: Landscape Representation in Early National Domestic Interiors"
• Armin Mattes , University of Virginia, "Jefferson, Democracy and the Rise of Modern Nationalism"
• Andrew Mullen, Saint George's Hanover Square, England, "Music at Monticello"
• Johann Neem , Western Washington University, "Development as Freedom:  Rethinking Jefferson's Statecraft"
• Liam Paskvan , The College of William and Mary, "The King's -€˜Harum-Scarum Army': Slave Soldiers in British Military Policy and Political Culture, 1773-1783"
• Allan Potofsky , Universite Paris-VIII, "The Atlantic Political Economy and the Breakdown of Franco-U.S. Relations, 1787-1800:  From Doux Commerce to Wars of Commerce"
• John Ragosta , University of Virginia, "Fighting for Freedom:  How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Religious Liberty"
• Virginia Scharff , University of New Mexico, "Neither Amazons nor Angels:  Thomas Jefferson in the World of Women"
• Maurizio Valsania , University of Torino, Italy, "The Curse of History, the Curse of Nature:  Thomas Jefferson's Peculiar Enlightenment"
• Billy Wayson , University of Virginia, "Martha Jefferson Randolph: The Education of a Republican Daughter and Plantation Mistress, 1783-1809"
• Tao Wei , Peking University, China, "Between Revival and Beyond:  Republican Revisionism and the Contested Canons in American Intellectual History"
• Tomasz Wieciech , Jagiellonian University, Poland, "Thomas Jefferson and States' Rights: The Origins and Development of the Doctrine in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century America"
• Andrea Wulf , History of Design, Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created the American Eden (Book under contract with Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, to be published in 2010.)
• Aaron Wunsch , Architectural History, University of California-Berkeley, "Philadelphia's Grid Cemeteries"
• Albert Zambone , Valparaiso University, "Gentleman's Study among Chesapeake Elites Between 1720 and 1830"
• Frank Cogliano, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, "Jefferson's 'Empire for Liberty'"
• Anthony Connors, Clark University, Massachusetts, "Thomas Jefferson's Debt to Tobacco"
• David Emblidge, Emerson College, Massachusetts, "Jefferson as Book Buyer"
• Victor Enthoven , Royal Netherlands Naval College, The Netherlands, "Collaboration and Resistance: The Dutch Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution, 1780-1830"
• Carolyn Gilman, Missouri Historical Society, "Jefferson and Clark: The West in the Emergence of an American Identity"
• Jonathan Gross, Director of DePaul Humanities Center, DePaul University, Illinois, " Anthologizing Thomas Jefferson's Prose Scrapbooks: Politics, Medicine, Religion, and Literature"
• Monica Henry, Universite Paris VII, France, "Thomas Jefferson and Spanish America"
• Alexandra Jones , DAACS Fellowship,   University of California-Berkeley, "African American Religious Practices in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries"
• Elizabeth Brand Monroe , Indiana University-Indianapolis, "William Wirt"
• Peter Nicolaisen, Kiel University, Germany, " Jefferson and Europe: The French Revolution"
• Martin Ohman , University of Virginia, " The Political History of the Early Republic Seen as a Conflict over the Meaning of Federalism"
• Kara Pierce , State University of New York-Binghamton, "The Feudal System of Entail and its Influences on Early Colonial Society"
• Kristopher Ray , Ashland University, Ohio, "The Political Sage of Monticello: Thomas Jefferson and the Meaning of American Republicanism, 1809-1826"
• Sandra Rebok, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Spain, "The Idea of the United States Promoted by Thomas Jefferson in the Old World"
• Bernetiae Reed , University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Slave Families of Thomas Jefferson"
• Priscilla Roberts, independent scholar, Colorado, "Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Barclay, and Barbary (1784-1793) as Seen in the Virginia Press"
• Richard Roberts, independent scholars, Colorado, "Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Barclay, and Barbary (1784-1793) as Seen in the Virginia Press"
• Taylor Stoermer , University of Virginia, "Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, and the Empire of Imagination: Disaffection in Revolutionary Virginia, 1770-1776"
• Keith Thomson, American Philosophical Society, " Jefferson 's Natural History"
• Iwona Swiatczak Wasilewska, University of Helsinki, Finland, " History of the State of the Union Address: A Study in the American Political Ritual"
• Lauren Winner, Duke Divinity School, Duke University, North Carolina, "Thomas Jefferson's Biblical Paintings: the Art and Artifice of Religious Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century Virginia"
• Alissa Ardito , University of Virginia School of Law, " Jefferson and Machiavelli"
• Nicholas Cole , University College, Oxford University, England, "Law for and Against the People"
• Fraser Clark , Canadian Air Force, "Thomas Jefferson and the United States Marine Corps Band"
• Max Edling , Uppsala University, Sweden, "Financing War in Jefferson's America"
• Karen Fields, independent scholar, Virginia, "Thomas Jefferson's May 1787 Visit to Bordeaux, France"
• Jodi Frederiksen, Simpson College, Iowa, "Early Nineteenth Century Graffiti at Monticello"
• W. Scott Harrop, University of Virginia, "Thomas Jefferson and the Opinions of Mankind: The Imperative of International Legitimacy"
• Sean Harvey, College of William and Mary, Virginia, "Indian Languages and Republican Empire"
• Jeff Matsuura , Alliance Law Group, " Jefferson and a Populist Approach to Intellectual Property Rights"
• William Merkel , Washburn University School of Law, Kansas, "Race, Liberty, and Law: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery, 1770-1800"
• Eric Stoykovich , University of Virginia, "Thomas Jefferson, Domesticated Animals, and the Political Economy of Agriculture"
• Tess Taylor , The Atlantic Monthly , "Autobiography of My Family -€“ The Randolphs"
• Maurizio Valsania , University of Torino, Italy, "Cultural Roots of American Pessimism: A History, 1763-1865"
• Brian Schoen , Ohio University, " Jefferson's Ghosts: The Republican Legacy and the Crisis of the 1850s,"
• David Steinberg , University of Pennsylvania, "Refusing Venus, Courting Clio"
• Michelle San Antonio , DAACS Fellowship, University of Montana, "The Lives of Enslaved African Americans During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"
• Alissa Ardito, Yale University, Connecticut, "The Unrecognized Connections Between Niccolo Machiavelli and the Founders of the American Extended Republic, Especially James Madison and Thomas Jefferson"
• David Brown , DAACS Fellowship, College of William and Mary, Virginia, "The Changing Landscape of Plantation Slavery"
• Evelyn Causey , University of Delaware, "The Character of a Gentleman: Deportment, Piety, and Morality in Southern Colleges and Universities, 1820-1860"
• Frank Cogliano , University of Edinburgh, Scotland, " Jefferson, History, and Historians"
• Robert Cox , American Philosophical Society, "The Conformation of Sleep as Understood in the Early Republic"
• James David , College of William and Mary, Virginia, "Dunmore's New World: Political Culture in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1770-1798"
• Jeffrey Fortin , University of New Hampshire, "'Little Short of National Murder': Removal, Exile, and Making of Diasporas in the Atlantic World, 1745-1865"
• Alan Gibson , California State University-Chico, "James Madison's Theory of an Extended Republic"
• Barbara Heath , Director of Archaeology and Landscapes, Poplar Forest, Virginia, "Tracing African American Families from the Wayles Estate"  
• Thomas Humphrey , Cleveland State University, "Yeoman, Tenants, and Property in Jefferson's America"
• Bradley Jones , Glasgow University, Scotland,   "The Influence of the American Revolution on the 18 th Century Trans-Atlantic British Identity"
• Thomas Latham , University College, Oxford University, England, "The American War of Independence, Metaphor, and Visual Imagery in Britain"
• Stefano Luconi , University of Florence, Italy, "The Politics of Impeachment in the Early Republic: William Blount, John Pickering, and Samuel Chase"
• Katherine Stebbins McCaffrey , Boston University, Massachusetts, "Reading Glasses: American Spectacles from Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals to Mithril"
• Andrew Mullen , Saint George's Hanover Square, England, "The Study and Performance of Thomas Jefferson's Favorite Musical Works"
• Martha Rojas , University of Rhode Island, "Diplomatic Letters: The Conduct and Culture of Foreign Affairs in the Early Republic"
• Laura Sandy , University of Manchester, England, "Between Owner and Slave: The Role of Overseers in the Management of Slave Plantations in Virginia and South Carolina, 1740-1800"
• James Walvin , University of York, England, "Two Hundred Years after Abolition: Commemorating Slavery in 2007"
• Billy Wayson, University of Virginia, "Plantation Mistress and Republican Mother: Jefferson's Education of Daughter Martha"
• Henry Wiencek , Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, "Thomas Jefferson and Slavery"
• Anna Wong , University of Sydney, Australia, "The Cultural Role of the House Museum as Sites of History and Heritage, and a Comparative Analysis of Conservation and Interpretation Practices in Australia and the United States"
• Thomas Allen , University of Richmond, Virginia, "A Republic in Time: History, Modernity, and Social Imagination in the 19 th Century America"
• Thomas Baughn , independent scholar, Maryland, "Thomas Jefferson's Libraries, An Annotated Bibliographic Database"
• Keith Beutler , Washington University, Missouri, " Monticello and Historicized Mnemonics in the Early American Republic, 1826-1840"
• David Brown , DAACS Fellowship, College of William and Mary, Virginia, "The Material Reflection of Slave Autonomy"  
• Kerry Dean Carso , James Madison University, Virginia, "Thomas Jefferson's Follies: A Cultural History"
• Louis Cellauro , independent scholar, France, "Thomas Jefferson, Francois Cointreaux, and Earthen Architecture"
• Alan Pell Crawford , independent scholar, Virginia, " Jefferson's Contribution to American Political Thought"
• Charles Cullen , Newberry Library, Illinois, " Jefferson's Dinner List, 1804-1809"
• Timothy Hackler , independent scholar, Fayetteville, Arkansas, "Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton"
• Matthew Hale , Mississippi State University, "Neither Britons nor Frenchmen: The French Revolution and American National Identity"
• Aki Kalliomaki , University of California-Santa Cruz, "'The Most God-provoking Democrats on This Side of Hell': The United Irishmen in the Early American Republic"
• Vassiliki Karali , University of Edinburgh, Scotland, " Thomas Jefferson and the Episcopal Church, 1760-1790"
• Cynthia Keirner , University of North Carolina-Charlotte, "Biography of Martha Jefferson Randolph"  
• Catherine Kerrison , Villanova University, Pennsylvania, "Martha and Maria Jefferson and the Republic of Letters"
• Peter Nicolaisen , Flensburg University, Germany, " Jefferson and the Dutch Patriots"
• Kirsten Phimister , University of Edinburgh, Scotland, "Religion and the Anti-federalists"
• Lynn Rainville , DAACS Fellowship, Sweet Briar College, Virginia, "A Model to Predict the Distribution of Slave-Related Architecture, Features, and Artifacts on Late 18 th and 19 th Century Piedmont Plantations"
• Sandra Rebok , Instituto De Historia, Spain, "Alexander von Humboldt: The Personal Relationship and Ideological Link between two Exponents of the Enlightenment"
• Douglas Sanford , DAACS Fellowship, Mary Washington College, Virginia, "Examining the Nature and Structure of Slave Quarters' Yards and Comparison of Architectural Evidence for Slave Holding"  
• Mary Lee Settle Tazewell , independent scholar, "The Early Years of Thomas Jefferson"
• James Thompson , independent scholar, Virginia, "Beyond the Veil of Reason: Thomas Jefferson's Political Development-A Study in Three Parts"  
• Jack Vanens , independent scholar, Colorado, "Why FDR Portrayed Himself as the New Thomas Jefferson"
• Deborah Allen , Monticello-McNeil Fellow, "'Acquiring Knowledge of Our Own Continent': Geopolitics, Science, and Jeffersonian Geography, 1783-1804"
• Luigi Marco Bassani , University of Milan, Italy, "Thomas Jefferson's Political Thought"
• Thomas Baughn , Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., "Documenting the Historical Development of Thomas Jefferson's Libraries with the Founding Era Libraries Database"
• Natalie Bober , independent scholar, New York, "Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain"
• Andrew Burstein , University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, "New Approaches to Jefferson's Retirement Years"
• Martin Clagett , Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, "William Small, Jefferson's professor at the College of William and Mary"
• Nancy Isenberg , University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, "The Sexual Politics of Aaron Burr"
• Douglas Sanford , DAACS Fellowship, Mary Washington College, Virginia, "Slave Quarters' Yards and Comparison of Architectural Evidence for Slave Holding"  
• Finn Pollard , University of Edinburgh, Scotland, "In Search of 'This New Man, the American': Literary Concepts of American National Identity, 1782-1832"
• Cassandra Pybus , University of Tasmania, Australia, "Black Caesar, the Story of a Runaway Slave Who Defected to the British in 1781"
• Richard Samuelson , Center for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National University of Ireland- Galway
• Hannah Spahn , Free University, Germany, " Jefferson's Vision of the Future and the Dialectics of the Master-Slave Relationship"
• Tatiana Van Riemsdijk , Fulbright Fellow, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, "Saving Souls and Solving Slavery: Reform Politics of Chesapeake Evangelicals, 1790-1830"
• Albert Zambone , Saint Cross College, Oxford University, England, "'According to Their Usual Custom': Popular Anglicanism in Colonial Virginia, 1688-1776"
• George Boudreau, Pennsylvania State University, "Teaching Thomas Jefferson: The American Studies Representative American Approach and Twenty-First Century American College Students"
• Louis Cellauro , independent scholar, France, "Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Library"
• Frank Cogliano , University of Edinburgh, Scotland, " Jefferson's Image and Reputation in the Historical Mind since 1945"
• Kirt von Daacke , Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, "Reconstruction of the Rural Neighborhood: An Analysis of Community in Pre-Civil War Virginia"
• Linda Frey , University of Montana, "The Revolutionary Challenge to the International Order: The United States and France"
• Marsha Frey , Kansas State University, "The Revolutionary Challenge to the International Order: The United States and France"
• Nina Gladziuk , Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, " Jefferson and the 17 th Century English Political Debate"
• Jonathan Gross , DePaul University, Illinois, " Jefferson's Zanadu: Pursuing Happiness in English and American Literature"
• Elizabeth Cherry Jones , textile artist, Virginia, "Tools and Processes Used by African-Americans in Plantation Textile Production at Monticello and Similar Sites"
• Martha King , Princeton University, New Jersey, "Clementina Rind and Print Culture in Jefferson's Virginia"
• William Merkel , Oxford University, England, "Universal Liberty and African Slavery: A Re-evaluation of Thomas Jefferson"
• James Read , Saint John's University, New York, " John C. Calhoun and the Double-Edged Legacy of Thomas Jefferson"
• Nancy Rhoden, University of Southern Indiana, "Gentlemen and Rebels: Elite Self Perceptions and Aristocratic Attitudes of Virginia's Gentlemen During the American Revolution"
• Tatiana Van Riemsdijk , Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, "A Final Evangelical Scare for Thomas Jefferson: White and Black Sunday Schools as Public Education, 1816-1831"
• Zbigniew Stawrowski , Institute of Political Studies, Poland, "Philosophical Analysis of Constitutional Debate in the United States and Poland"
• James Walvin , University of York, England, "Sites of Remembrance: Monticello and the Representation of Slavery"
• Dayang Yraola , University of the Philippines, "Collection Based Education Programs in House Museums"
• Phillip Ziesche , Yale University, Connecticut, "American Expatriates in European Networks of Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1789-1803"
• Jeremy Bailey , Boston College, Massachusetts, "The Republican Executive: Thomas Jefferson and the Development of Presidential Power"
• Sid Ewer , Southwest Missouri State University, "Thomas Jefferson's Noble Farmer versus Economic Realities, 1809-1826"
• Rachel Fletcher , New York School of Interior Design, "An American Vision in Harmony: Geometric Proportions in Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda"
• Alan Gibson , Saint Ambrose University, Iowa, "The Jeffersonians and the Development of the Modern Conception of Public Opinion"
• Susanne Cooper Guasco , College of William and Mary, Virginia, "Managing Memory: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Legacy of the Founders"
• Ari Helo , University of Tampere, Finland, "After the Revolution: The Ethical Promises of Republican Thought in a Slave Society, 1790-1800"
• Stephen Hodin , Boston University, Massachusetts
• Benjamin Irving , Brandeis University, Massachusetts, "Representative Men: A Cultural History of the Continental Congress"
• James Lewis, Jr ., Louisiana State University, "The Burr Conspiracy of 1805-1807"
• Sarah Hand Meachum , University of Virginia
• Gary Moulton , University of Nebraska, "Editing the Journals of Lewis and Clark"
• Carolyn Powell, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, "In the Eye of the Master: Love, Miscegenation, and Murder in the American South"
• Tatiana Van Riemsdijk , Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada,   "Aging Founding Fathers and Aggressive Evangelical Crusaders: Reconsidering Virginia's Religious Landscape, 1810-€“1830"
• James Sofka , University of Virginia, " Jefferson and International Relations in the Late Eighteenth Century"
• Peter Thompson , Saint Cross College, Oxford University, England, " Jefferson and the Anglo-Saxons"
• Zoltan Vajda , U niversity of Szeged, Hungary, "The Political Philosophies of Thomas Jefferson and John C. Calhoun"
• Christopher Young, University of Illinois-Chicago , "Public Opinion and the Culture of Freedom in Post-Revolutionary America"
• Maureen Conklin, Beloit College, Wisconsin, "Power in the Piedmont: Litigation and Political Culture in the 18 th Century Rural Virginia"
• Michael Conlin, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign, "Citizen Pierre-Auguste Adet and Thomas Jefferson: Science and Republicanism in the Early Republic"
• André Corboz , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Switzerland, "The Cultural Sources of the American Territorial Grid System"
• Carol Cullen , Clark University, Massachusetts, "An Interpretive Biography of Thomas Jefferson's Granddaughter, Ellen Randolph Coolidge"
• Xiao Hua Feng , Jiangxi Normal University, China, "Thomas Jefferson's Democratic Thought and Press Reform"
• Anthony Iaccarino , Reed College, Oregon, " Virginia and the National Contest Over Slavery in the Early Republic"
• Emily Kasper, University of Louisville, Kentucky, "In Detail: A Roman Analysis of Thomas Jefferson's ' Academical Village'"
• Susan Kern , College of William and Mary, Virginia, "Shadwell: The Material Culture and Social History of a Virginia Plantation"
• David Konig , Washington University, Missouri, "Legal Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson"
• Charlene Boyer Lewis , Widener University, Pennsylvania, "Study of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte (1785-1879) and the New Republic"
• Zuochang Liu , Sandong Teachers University, China, "Jefferson in Pursuit of a Democratic Arcadia"
• Robert McDonald , United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, "Lost and Found: Thomas Jefferson's Newspaper Scrapbooks"
• Charles Miller , Lake Forest College, Illinois, " Jefferson and the Nautical Metaphor" and a pamphlet on the paintings of Nathaniel K. Gibbs
• Simon Newman , University of Glasgow, Scotland, "The Embodiment of Poverty in the Age of Jefferson"
• Laura Sayre , Princeton University, New Jersey, "Some Versions of Georgic: Culture and Agriculture in 18 th Century Britain and America"
• Brian Steele , University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Something 'New Under the Sun': Thomas Jefferson, the Union, and the Intellectual Construction of America"
• Andrew Trees , Rhodes College, Tennessee, "Thomas Jefferson as a Writer"
• Evaither Ben Zedeff , International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Israel, "Thomas Jefferson and Freedom of the Press"
• Malick Ghachem, Stanford University and Harvard Law School, "Slavery, Legal Reform, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Revolutions: A Comparative Study of Jefferson and Moreau de Saint-Méry"
• Thomas Kinnahan , West Virginia University, "Framing the View: The American Landscape and Narratives of Western Expansion"
• Jon Kukla , New Orleans University, Louisiana, " Narrative History of the Louisiana Purchase"
• Michael McDonnell , University of Wales, Wales, "The Politics of Popular Mobilization in Revolutionary Virginia: Military Culture and Political and Social Relations"
• Tsutomu Numaoka , Niigata Sangyo University, Japan, "Thomas Jefferson' s Policies Concerning Slave Gardens and a Study of Slave Gardening Practices"
• Ellen Fernandez Sacco , University of California-Berkeley, "Racial Displays: Creating National Identity in the Cultural Landscape of the Early Republic"
• Andrea Scheider , University of Bonn, Germany, " Jefferson and "Happiness" in the 18th Century"
• Holly Cowan Shulman , University of Maryland, "Women and Washington Society during the Administration of Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809"
• James Simon , New York University School of Law, "Jefferson and Marshall"
• Garry Apgar, Yale University, Connecticut, The Voltaire Society of America, " Jefferson's Interest in Voltaire and the Shared Affinities Between the Two"
• B. Ramesh Babu , American Studies Research Centre, Osmania University, India, "Study of Jefferson Ideas of Democracy in Modern India"
• Douglas Chambers , University of Memphis, Tennessee, "Africanisms in the Slave Communities at Monticello"
• Saul Cornell , Ohio State University, "Exploration of the American Reception and Perception of Monticello"
• Bryan Clark Green , National Park Service, Washington, D.C. and University of Virginia, "The Making of a Capital City: The Architecture and Urban Landscape of Richmond, Virginia, 1779-1820 and Examining Thomas Jefferson's Role in Richmond's Development"
• Ekkehart Krippendorff , Free University of Berlin, Germany, "The Parallel Lives of Thomas Jefferson and J.W. Goethe"
• Csaba Lévai , Lajos Kossuth University, Hungary, "Biography of Thomas Jefferson for a Hungarian Audience, Focusing on His Political Philosophy"
• Maria Cristina Loi , Politechnico di Milano, Italy, "The Design and Construction of the University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson's Influence on European Architecture"
• Nikita Pokrovsky , Moscow State University, Russia, " Jefferson's Classic Papers" and "Jefferson Speaks to Us"
• Daniel Royot , University of Paris-Sorbonne, France, Thomas Jefferson's frontier policies in relation to the Spanish frontier and the French heritage
• Marco Sioli , University of Milan, Italy, "Thomas Jefferson's Interest, Travel, Friendships, Agricultural Inspirations, Arts and Literature, Diplomacy, and Impact in Italy"
• James Sofka , University of Virginia, "The Jeffersonian Idea of National Security: Commerce, the Atlantic Balance of Power, and the Barbary War, 1786-1805"
• Roger Stein , University of Virginia, "The Artist in His Museum: Copley, Peale, and Thomas Jefferson"
• Marie Tyler-McGraw , National Park Service, Washington, D.C., "Thomas Jefferson's Relationship to the American Colonization Society During the Period 1800-1826"
• Cameron Addis , University of Texas-Austin, "Jefferson, Madison and the Early History of the University of Virginia"
• Andrew Burstein , University of Northern Iowa
• James Heath , Pepperdine University, California "Thomas Jefferson's Education"
• Malcolm Kelsall , University of Wales, Wales  
• James Lanshe , University of Wales, Wales, "The Development of Political Thought Contained in the Declaration of Independence"
• Peter Nicolaisen , Flensburg University, Germany
• Malcolm Sylvers , State University at Venice, Italy, "Jefferson's Retirement Years at Monticello and the Status of Capitalist Development at the End of His Life"
• Anatoly Utkin , Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, "Thomas Jefferson: A Biography"
• Jennings Wagoner , University of Virginia
• Patricia West , State University of New York-Albany
• Colin Bonwick , Keele University, England
• David Reynolds , London University, England
• Hartmut Wasser , Weingarten and Tübingen Universities, Germany
• W. Howard Adams , independent scholar
• Joseph Ellis , Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
• David McCullough , independent scholar
• Nikita Pokrovsky , Moscow State University, Russia
• Herbert Sloan , Barnard College, New York

Barringer Fellows (middle and high school teachers):

• Ewan McCallam, John O'Gaunt Community Technical College, “ 'Bigotry is the disease of ignorance’: How does Jefferson’s relationship with the slave trade shape our perspectives?”
• James Newman, The Hawken School, Gates Mills, OH “An Architectural Revolutionary”
• Dan Pulskamp, Prince George High School, Prince George,  VA, “Fire Bell in the Night”
• Robert Long , Quaker Valley Middle School,   Sewickley, PA, “Personal Morals vs. Political Moves”
• Joanne Howard, Summer Creek Middle School , Crowley, TX, “Slavery and the Legacy of Thomas Jefferson”
• Brian Kellet , Algonquin Regional High School Northborough, MA, “ Jefferson and the Press”
• William Gilluly , John C. Vanderburg Elementary School, Henderson, NV “Thomas Jefferson-Patient”
• Sarah Segal, Hood River Middle School, Hood River, OR, “Roll On Columbia!”: Exploring Lewis & Clark’s Corps of Discovery in Collage and Song”
• Mathew Martin , Western Albemarle High School, Crozet, VA, “Liberty of the Whole Earth”
• Jennifer Bergevin , Clarence B. Lamb Elementary School, Lawrenceville, NJ, "The Music of Monticello: A Fourth Grade Music Unit."  
• Annmarie Ford , British Association of American Studies, “Slave Narratives at Monticello.”  
• Michael Klapka , Largo Senior High School, Largo, FL. "Diffusion of Knowledge: Thomas Jefferson & Public Education."
• Vic Henningsen, Phillips Andover Academy, "Political Leadership in 18th Century America"  
• Marian Jackson , Opelousas, LA, "Jefferson's Time as US Minister to France"  
• Keely Leggour , Ramapo Indian Hills High School, Oak Ridge, NJ, "Jefferson and the Embargo Act of 1807"
• Christopher Bates , United Kingdom, “Thomas Jefferson and George Marshall lesson plans”
• David Chamberlain , Kearsarge, New Hampshire , “Jefferson’s Perspective on the Ohio Region lesson plans”
• Beth Doughty , La Center, Washington ,“Thomas Jefferson and James Madison supplemental classroom text”
• Mike Kleiner , Vancouver, Washington, “Thomas Jefferson and James Madison supplemental classroom text”
• Laurel Gillette , Red Hill Elementary School, North Garden, Virginia, “Classical influences on Thomas Jefferson “
• Thomas Haward , Oriel High School, Crawley, West Sussex, England , “Lesson units on “Relations with the American Colonies and the War of Independence c.1740 – 1789.” and “The Slave Trade: Slavery and the Anti-Slavery Campaigns, c. 1770 – 1833.”
• Marsha Klosterman , Siuslaw Middle School, Florence, Oregon, “Jefferson the naturalist and the Lewis and Clark expedition”
• Dr. David Naccari , KIPP McDonough 15 School for the Creative Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana, “Creole and African American influences on Monticello and Jeffersonian president’s house culinary practices”
• John Lum , Pennsylvania, "Plantation Economy"
• Catriona Paul , Glasgow, Scotland, selected by The British Association for American Studies, "Revolution in the Classroom: Teaching American History (1763-87) in British Schools"
• Alan Wind , Georgia, "Replicating the Gardens of Monticello"
• Katherine Cooper , Manchester, England, selected by The British Association for American Studies
• Jeffrey Hinton , Nevada, "Discovering the American West: The Frontier of Jefferson's Imagination"
• Tristin Koch , Colorado, "Thomas Jefferson WebQuest"
• Peter Vermilyea , Connecticut, "Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton"
• K. Wise Whitehead , Maryland, "Jefferson's Racial Policies"
• Jeff Welch, California , "Debating Independence"
• Joe Morrison , Wisconsin, Elementary Lesson Plan: "Our American Leaders"; Middle School Lesson Plan: "Thomas Jefferson, Drafting the Declaration of Independence, and the American Revolution"; High School Lesson Plan: "Social Theory and Thomas Jefferson"  

Gilder Lehrman Fellows:

• Armin Mattes , 2012-2013, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tuebingen, Germany, “’Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland:’ The Transatlantic Context of the Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood, 1775-1840.”
• Andrew Struan , 2011-2012, University of Glasgow, “The American Question: Edmund Burke, the British Parliament, and the Coming Revolution, 1763-1776.”  
• John Ragosta, 2010-2011, Ph.D., University of Virginia, “ The Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, Our Heritage.”
• Christa Dierksheide , 2009-2010, University of Virginia, “The Amelioration of Slavery in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1770-1840.”
• Hannah Spahn , 2008-2009, John F. Kennedy Institute for American Studies, Free University of Berlin, “Jefferson’s Conceptions of Time & History.”
• Matthew Hale , 2007-2008, Goucher College, Maryland, "Neither Britons nor Frenchmen: The French Revolution and American National Identity'
• Martin Clagett , September 2006-May 2007, Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Richmond, "William Small, 1734-1775: Teacher, Mentor, Scientist"
• Philipp Ziesche , September 2005-May 2006, Yale University, Connecticut, "Americans in Paris in the Age of Revolution, 1788-1800"
• Douglas Bradburn , September 2004-May 2005, University of Chicago, "Revolutionary Politics, Nationhood, and the Problem of American Citizenship, 1787-1804"
• Leonard Sadosky , September 2003-May 2004, University of Virginia, "Revolutionary Negotiations: An Intellectual and Cultural History of American Diplomacy with Europe and American Indians in the Age of Franklin and Jefferson"
• Jan Ellen Lewis , January-April 2003, Rutgers University, New Jersey, "Jefferson's America: A History of the United States, 1760-1840"
• Anthony Iaccarino , September 2002-May 2003, Reed College, Oregon, " Virginia and the National Contest over Slavery and Race in the Early Republic, 1776-1835"
• James Lewis, Jr., August 2002-January 2003, University of Pennsylvania, "'Enveloped in Mystery': Making Sense of the Burr Conspiracy"

University of Virginia Dissertation Fellows:

• David Flaherty , 2013-2014, “Envisioning the British Atlantic:  Strategies for Settlement and Sovereignty on the North American and Caribbean Frontiers, 1700-1763”
• Nicholas Wood , 2012-2013, “Questions of Humanity and Expediency: The Slave Trades and the African Colonization Movement in the Early Republic”
• Randi Lewis , 2011-2012, “To ‘the most distant parts of the Globe’: Trade, Politics, and the Maritime Frontier in the Early Republic, 1763-1819”
• Armin Mattes , 2010-2011, “Citizens of a common intellectual homeland : the transatlantic context of the origins of American democracy and nationhood, 1775-1840”
• Lawrence B. A. Hatter , 2009-2010, “Channeling the spirit of enterprise : commercial interests and state formation in the early American West, 1763-1825”
• Adam Jortner , 2008-2009, “Reign of witches: a political history of American miracles, 1780-1840”
• Taylor Stoermer , 2007-2008, “Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, and the Empire of Imagination: Disaffection in Revolutionary Virginia, 1770-1776.
• Christa Dierksheide , 2006-2007, "The Amelioration of Slavery in the Anglo-American Imagination, ca. 1770-1840"
• Brian Murphy , 2005-2006, "The Politics Corporations Make: The Interests, Corporations and Enterprises That Made America Partisan, 1780-1840"
• Katherine Woltz , 2004-2005, "Framing the New Republic: History Painting and American Cultural Politics, 1786-1826"
• Cheryl Collins , 2003-2004, "A Note on Confederacies: Sister States, Sibling Rivalries, and the American State System, 1776-1800"
• Robert Parkinson , 2002-2003, "Tories, Savages, and Negroes: The Revolutionary War and American Racism"
• Brian Schoen , 2001-2002, History, "An Ambiguous Union: the Cotton South, the British Empire, and the Development of American Political Economy, 1787-1861"
• Leonard Sadosky , 2000-2001, History, "Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America"
• Richard Samuelson , 1999-2000, History, "The Adams Family Biography"
• Andrew Trees , 1998-1999, History, "A Character to Establish: Personal and National Identity in the New American Nation"
• Kevin Gutzman , 1997-1998, History
• Joanne Freeman , 1996-1997, Anthropology
• Drake Patten , 1995-1996, Anthropology

Travel Grants:

• Craig Blackman, AP US History, Indian River High School, Chesapeake, VA. “Virginians’ response to the Patriot movement from 1763-1776.”
• Natalie Feder , Academic Advisor/Instructor, Ph.D. candidate, Agricultural Communication Program, Department of Youth Development and Agricultural Education, Purdue University, “Jefferson’s Contributions to Agricultural Literature.”
• Kara Gentile , M.A. candidate (December 2009), liberal studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn, “Jefferson, Architecture and the Construction of the Ideal Daughter.”
• Kenneth Carstens , Professor Emeritus, History, Murray State University, “ Thomas Jefferson's Gardens.”
• Kara Gentile , University of Michigan-Dearborn, “ Jefferson, Architecture and the Construction of the Ideal Daughter.”
• Mark Dewalt , Winthrop University, “Early Education Project.”
• Mark DeWalt , Ph.D. Director of Graduate Studies, Bank of America Professor, Educational Research, Winthrop University. “A coloring/activity book on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson.”
• Jack Vanens , independent scholar, "Why FDR Portrayed Himself as the New Thomas Jefferson"  
• Cynthia Kierner , University of North Carolina-Charlotte, "Martha Jefferson Randolph"   
• Melanie Miller , Gouverneur Morris Papers, "Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Jefferson"
• George Boudreau , Pennsylvania State University, "Thomas Jefferson and His Life in Philadelphia"   
• Mark Levitch , University of Pennsylvania, "The Thomas Jefferson Foundation's Sponsorship of the Pantheon de la Guerre   
• Mary Lou Reker , Library of Congress, "A Look at the Botanical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expedition as Inspired by Thomas Jefferson"   
• Rachel Sternberg , College of Wooster, Ohio, "The Attitudes of Athenians and Southerners toward Slavery"
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National Institute of Social Sciences Dissertation Grant

Open to doctoral students in the fields of Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology, with interdisciplinary projects containing one or more of these fields as a major component also considered.

Eligibility:  Any accredited U.S. university that grants doctoral degrees in the appropriate social science field is eligible to nominate a graduate student to receive an NISS Dissertation Grant. Each university may nominate up to two (2) candidates per grant period. If a university nominates more than one candidate, they may come from one or more of the disciplines listed above.

Grant Period:  Grants are given as unrestricted funds which may be used to cover any necessary expenses related to completing a dissertation, including but not limited to travel to a library or archive, photography or photocopying, field research, and conference support.

Award Amount:  $2,500 - $5,000, with larger amounts on a case-by-case basis.

NYU Internal Process:  Students must be nominated by NYU to be eligible for this grant. All materials are sent to NYU to forward to NISS.

Application Open: TBA

Application deadline: monday, may 6, 2024, at 5:00 pm eastern time. winner(s) are expected to be announced in june 2024., program overview.

The National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS) invites nominations for its 2024 Dissertation Grants Program. NISS Dissertation Grants are designed to support outstanding Ph.D. students who need resources to complete doctoral work that promises to significantly advance their fields of study. Any accredited U.S. university that awards doctoral degrees in the social sciences is eligible to nominate a graduate student for an NISS Dissertation Grant.

Application Components:

Each nomination must include the following information, emailed as instructed below:

Completion of the NISS 2024 Dissertation Grant Application Cover Sheet (click to open fillable pdf for downloading and printing)

The nominee’s CV

The nominee’s personal statement of no more than 750 words describing the project and the planned uses for money requested

A one-page project budget

A letter of support from the nominee’s academic sponsor that addresses the nominee’s academic qualifications and the merits of the nominee’s research

Note: All documents must be submitted in pdf format, with numbered pages that include the nominee’s name and university name in the footer.

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Friday, May 17, 2024

2024 Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellows Announced

Aseees congratulates the 2024 cohen-tucker dissertation completion fellows..

Michael Corsi History The Ohio State University

“El Dorado on the Rocks: The Ural Mountains and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Russia” 

My dissertation argues that the Russian empire—its scholars, institutions, and generous funding—was instrumental to the process of global scientific-knowledge production. It takes one part of the Russian empire—the Ural Mountains—as demonstrative of the influence Russia had over nineteenth-century scientific thought. The Urals’ contributions to nineteenth-century science included, among other things, discovery of the first indigenous European diamonds, development of new theories regarding the mineralogical composition of the planet, identification of the Permian geological period, and characterization of global weather systems and biodiversity. Discoveries such as these filled gaps in the scholarly understandings of the time and contributed to some of the most important scientific publications of the nineteenth century. Furthermore, my dissertation also examines intra-imperial networks alongside inter-imperial ones. It traces the ways in which Urals scientists collaborated with other experts and scientific institutions within the Russian empire, thereby demonstrating the contributions of this region to the growth of imperial-era science.

Jessica Ginocchio English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

“Intersecting Worlds: Animal Consciousness, Reality, and Imagination in Eastern European Fiction” 

“Intersecting Worlds” examines the integration of animal minds into the narrative fabric of primarily Russian fiction across several epochs. From Lev Tolstoy’s war horses to Andrei Platonov’s blacksmith bear, animal points-of-view are used by many of Russia’s most prominent writers, ranging in technique from first-person animal narrators to animals as focal characters within larger narrative frameworks. Structured around three chapters and an epilogue, the project uses careful close readings to characterize representations of animal minds and contextualize them within literary aesthetics, contemporaneous scientific thought, and socio-political conditions. Spanning the period from 1865 until 1930, the central chapters encapsulate an era marked by profound intellectual, scientific, and socio-political shifts. In works by Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov, and Platonov, we can see the evolution of realism to modernism to early Soviet experimentation. A final epilogue examines the afterlife of these tendencies in the work of contemporary and postmodern writers from both Russia and Ukraine, including Viktor Pelevin, Tatyana Tolstaya, Linor Goralik, Victoria Amelina, and Andrei Kurkov. The dissertation seeks to answer fundamental questions about human-animal relationships, perceptions of animality, growing ecological consciousness, and the nature of reality itself. While it contributes to the growing field of scholarship interested in animals and environment Russian literary studies, though its specific interventions to marry the concerns of animal studies with narrative theory and cognitive literary studies. Ultimately, I hope to show that animals are not a niche concern, but a central one, and the project of imagining and narrating animal consciousness is fundamental to the study of narrative, theories of consciousness, and understandings of what it means to be human, to be alive, and to exist in the world. 

Luke Jeske History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

“Faith, Nation, and Empire: Nineteenth-Century Russian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land” 

Throughout the nineteenth century, Russian Orthodox Christians made pilgrimage to Ottoman Palestine, or the Holy Land, a vital and dynamic part of religious and national life. Tens of thousands made the journey, relying on patchwork support systems to realize their dreams of walking in Jesus’ footsteps. Many considered the journey itself a manifestation of personal and collective piety, an act rewarded by God and capable of knitting together thousands of compatriots shuffling toward Jerusalem. Sharing a common destination, Russians diverged on how to practice and interpret pilgrimage. Whereas champions of imperialism stressed the projection of geopolitical power, others emphasized neutral piety. Some, mostly peasants, struck out on their own, embracing apocrypha and heterodox rituals while avoiding Russian officials. I argue that examining these developments in pilgrimage enables us to better understand the broader modernization of Russian Orthodox Christian religiosity, by which I mean the adaptation of religion to accommodate the myriad technological, social, cultural, and legal changes unfolding over the century. While scholars have produced insightful scholarship on various aspects of this religious revitalization, I am one of the first to examine it in the trans-imperial context of pilgrimage and thereby expose Orthodoxy’s tremendous capacity to mobilize the Tsar’s subjects. Drawing on travel memoirs, periodicals, and published archival materials generated around pilgrimage, I shed new light on the religious groundings of Russian ethno-nationalism and imperialism. 

Weronika Malek-Lubawski  Art History University of Southern California 

“Between Moscow and Paris: Łódź and the Transnational Avant-garde Network”  

My dissertation reconstructs the artistic network between Russia and Western urban centers through the activities of artists connected to Łódź, Poland. I study Russian-German sculptor Katarzyna Kobro (1898-1951), Polish painter and art theoretician Władysław Strzemiński (1893-1952), and Polish-Jewish painter and designer Henryk Berlewi (1894-1967), who were all crucial in facilitating international contacts and institutional collaborations between the avant-garde movements. Kobro and Strzemiński moved to Poland from Russia in 1921 and were the first artists to share and implement the ideas of revolutionary avant-garde there. Berlewi radically changed his art upon his encounter with Suprematism and carried this influence West after moving from Poland to Berlin and Paris. Strzemiński, Kobro, and Berlewi maintained a lifelong commitment to abstraction, that was reflected not only in their artworks, but also through self-publishing, teaching, and involvement in organizing collections and archives of contemporary art. I will highlight how these artists drew on the artistic discourse and institutional models that emerged during the Russian Revolution to re-imagine and implement avant-garde ideas in their new locations and contexts. In my argument, studying this artistic mobility allows us to broaden and de-center the histories of artists who were directly or indirectly influenced by the revolutionary avant-garde and departed from it to develop their individual art theories like Unism or Mechano-Faktura. My research draws on museum collections, primary sources, memoirs, and institutional histories. I also consider the impact of archival gaps and the Cold War on the existing historiography. The temporal scope of my dissertation will focus on 1921-1939, but in my last chapter, I will analyze Kobro’s, Strzemiński’s, and Berlewi’s legacy in the 1950s and the 1960s.

Alexandra Noi History University of California, Santa Barbara

“From Ape to New Socialist Man: Soviet and Chinese Forced Labor Camps as Laboratories of Carceral Eugenics” 

My dissertation is a comparative intellectual and social history of forced labor and reeducation in the Soviet Union and China. I study the ideas of human nature and practices of its transformation through the lens of incarceration. I conceptualize Soviet Gulag and Chinese Laogai forced labor camps as socialist scientific projects of molding humans and nature rooted in ideas of plasticity in the natural and social sciences of the early and mid–twentieth century. In the Soviet Union, those were Marxist ideas of the value of labor in the evolutionary transition “from ape to man,” as Friedrich Engels wrote, the theory of behavioral conditioning of the Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov, and the pedagogical methods of the Soviet Ukrainian educator Anton Makarenko. In China, social engineering was an intellectual fusion of indigenous theories of moral rehabilitation, Marxist and Leninist thought, Mao Zedong’s original contributions, and Soviet penal and educational experiments. I explore how in both countries the institutions and practices of forced labor were devised as a means to achieve revolutionary ends—the concurrent goals of modernizing the old “backward” society and economy, remaking people into new socialist citizens, and transforming the natural environment. 

Nicholas Seay   History The Ohio State University 

“Cotton Modernity: Agricultural Labor, Environment, and Materialism in Soviet Tajikistan, 1945-1991″ 

My dissertation explores the technocratic intensification of cotton monoculture in post-WWII Soviet-Tajikistan, which in turn was used to increase the USSR’s industrial-use cotton supply and as exports on the global market. I argue that this intensification produced a series of crises in environmental protection and allocation of labor resources, prompting reform-minded scientists and state agency employees to respond with several technocratic responses that addressed isolated problems, but fell short of directly attacking the monoculture itself, a non-negotiable feature of relations between Moscow and Central Asian Republics like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. To increase the yearly harvests of raw cotton, planners and collective farms made production more efficient through rational use of water resources, irrigating previously uncultivated lands, new seed selection strategies, and the production and application of chemical pesticides and fertilizers. By utilizing an environmental and materialist approach and analyzing how state officials responded to these crises, my research shows how the case of Tajikistan’s cotton production speaks to important north-south dynamics within the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional Soviet “empire” and how the case of Soviet cotton fits within global economic and environmental trends of the late-20th century. 

John Webley Slavic Languages and Literature Yale University

“Ink, Paint, and Blood: India and the Great Game in Russian Culture” 

Ink, Paint, and Blood examines Russian depictions of India created during the so-called Great Game, the rivalry between Britain and Russia for dominance in Asia. As a framework for understanding history, the Great Game (or Tournament of Shadows in Russian) reduces the complex, multipolar politicking between Europe and Asia down to a sensational story of spies and soldiers clashing on the Roof of the World. Nonetheless, scholars have demonstrated how this rivalry emerged as a dominant theme in Victorian media—even before the term ‘Great Game’ entered popular usage. Far less attention has been paid to how Russia created, imagined, and responded to this rivalry. My work elucidates the dominant concerns that emerged in Russia’s “Great Game” media—mapping, border disputes, espionage, surveillance, political upheaval, and trade—and shows how these themes adhered repetitive aesthetic dimensions. I achieve this through a trans-medial approach, which brings together travelogues, architecture, painting, poetry, material culture, and ballet from Russia, Britain, and India. By focusing on Russian depictions of India, my work shows how the discourse of the Great Game enabled Russians to articulate their own imperial aesthetic through comparison, mimicry, and differentiation from the British. As Russians retraced the journeys made by British explorers, spies, conquerors, and artists, they used their own creative practices to inspect British imperial culture and its forms. In drawing attention to both the narrative and formal aspects of the Great Game, my project reveals the broader impact that this rivalry had on shaping Russian imperial ideology and aesthetics. 

Yacov Zohn History University of Wisconsin-Madison  

“Tactical Representation: Political Goals in the Soviet National Soccer Team (1952-1972)” 

My dissertation probes the fractured political nature of soccer in the Soviet Union through the lens of the Soviet national soccer team from the team’s official genesis in 1952 to the end of its “golden era” in 1972. The sport featured a complex representation of governmental organizations, industries, politicians, and sports administrators who actively intervened in sporting affairs, vying for power and influence. My research explores institutions, individuals, and empire to investigate the political complexities and divides that festered in and around the Soviet soccer team in the struggle to shape its image as an icon of “Soviet” identity. I am particularly interested in examining the reasons behind the shifting locus of representation embodied by the national team: why and how Moscow, endowed with all of the USSR’s most important political institutions, dominant sport institutions, and the best clubs in the country, lost its monopoly on the national team, with Tbilisi and especially Kyiv growing in importance. My dissertation explains how a mix of key individuals, political changes, shifting societal norms, strengthening nationalism, fragmentation of power in Moscow, evolving regional sport/governmental institutions, and hockey (of all things) played a role in significantly impacting the national team’s meaning, composition, and results. The scope of my project incorporates little known regional sport publications, newspapers, interviews, and memoirs of key participants, as well as research in archives, libraries, and online sources across the USA, Switzerland, Germany, France, England, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia. 

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Phd candidate, department of history.

I am a PhD candidate in the History Department at Harvard University, specializing in the history of the post-Stalin Soviet Union. I am interested in the social history and history of consumption under socialism. My dissertation project explores the meaning and forms of personal wealth in the late Soviet Union (1960-1980s).

At Harvard, I am a Teaching Fellow and a Graduate Student Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

I received my bachelor's degree in History and master's degree in Cultural Studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in Moscow, Russia. Then I completed a graduate program at the Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences and got a degree of kandidat nauk . My kandidatskaya dissertation examined the history of hard currency stores in the post-Stalin Soviet Union. It was published as a book in Russian in 2017.

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9 phd students were named 2024 humanities engage fellows.

Nine PhD students at the University of Pittsburgh have received research funding from the Pitt’s Humanities Engage project, which is committed to broadening and deepening the intellectual and professional development of all PhD candidates.

Six of the recipients pitched their own Summer Immersive Fellowships, which offer the chance to gain experiences with host organizations in collaborative, mission-focused project work drawing on their high-level skills as researchers and writers. They will be co-mentored by the host organization supervisors, a cohort of faculty mentors and the senior director for graduate advising and engagement for the humanities.

This year’s Summer Immersive Fellowship recipients are:

• Juwon Adenuga (Music)
• Monica Daniels (History of Art and Architecture)
• Luis Delgado (Music)
• Frederick Miller (Theatre Arts)
• Senjuti Mukherjee (Film and Media Studies)
• Ernest Owusu-Poku (Music)

The two-term Immersive Dissertation Research Fellowship supports Humanities dissertation projects that involve substantial professional development and will likely result in dissertation formats other than the conventional proto-monograph. The fellowship carries a competitive stipend, a tuition scholarship and professional development funds for its duration.

The Immersive Dissertation Research Fellowship awardees are:

• Rahul Kumar (Film and Media Studies)
• Apala Kundu (English)
• Warner Sabio (Music)

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Congratulations to Yesenia Aguilar Silvan (Clinical Area) for receiving the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.

The Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship provides one year of support for individuals working to complete a research-based, dissertation-required Doctor of Philosophy degree that will prepare them for the pursuit of a career in academic teaching or research.

Dissertation Fieldwork Grants

These grants of up to $5,000 provide support for fieldwork expenses. For the purpose of this grant, fieldwork is defined as data collection that takes place for an extended period of time (e.g. weeks or months) outside the western Massachusetts geographical area. These grants are not designed to fund data analysis, only expenses related to data collection. In rare instances applicants may request up to $8,000 to help support work that will take place over an extended period of time and therefore incur significant expense. Applicants will need to submit a statement as part of the application to explain why additional funds are being requested. 

Who Is Eligible?

UMass Amherst doctoral students enrolled in a campus-based degree program (i.e. no online programs) and in good academic standing are eligible to apply. Students may receive this grant only once. Applicants who were not awarded a grant in a previous application cycle are eligible to reapply. Students may accept only one research grant from the Graduate School in an academic year. 

Application deadlines are October 15 and February 15 each year. Applicants should plan the timing of their application based on the funding period outlined below: 

• Applications submitted for the October 15, 2023 deadline should include research expenses that begin on January 1, 2024 or later. Awardees must secure all necessary research permission (IRB approval, IACUC approval, travel registry approval)  and complete relevant online CITI training in Responsible Conduct of Research no later than May 24, 2024 or the Fieldwork Grant will be forfeited. 
• Applications submitted for the February 15, 2024 deadline should include research expenses that begin July 1, 2024 or later. Awardees must secure all necessary research permission (IRB approval, IACUC approval, travel registry approval) and complete relevant online CITI training in Responsible Conduct of Research no later than May 24, 2024 or the Fieldwork Grant will be forfeited. 

The application deadline is 11:59 PM on the posted due date. All required materials (including the advisor’s Letter of Recommendation) must be received by this time. Award notifications will be made by the end of the semester in which the application was submitted. 

How to Apply

To allow sufficient planning time, we recommend students submit a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant application at least six months before funds are needed. A completed application includes:

• A  Fieldwork Grant Application . You will login to the application using your UMass email. You may may revise the text entry portions of your application by logging back in; PDFs cannot be edited once they are uploaded. 
• What do you seek to accomplish with your dissertation research? (i.e., what are your research questions/aims/objectives?)
• How will you accomplish this? (i.e., what research methods will you use?)
• What contribution(s) will this research make?
• How would a Fieldwork Grant contribute to your ability to successfully complete your dissertation?
• A Budget Table (use  this template ; upload your completed Budget Table as a PDF in the Fieldwork Grant Application. See tips below for preparing your Budget Table and Budget Justification.)
• A Budget Justification , which provides details on how you arrived at the amounts listed in the Budget Table (upload the Budget Justification as a PDF in the Fieldwork Grant Application; use the tips below and review this  sample Budget Table and Budget Justification  to understand how these documents should be prepared.)
• A letter of recommendation submitted by your advisor (see instructions below). 

Include your first and last name in the file name for every document you upload to the Fieldwork Grant Application. 

Tips for preparing your Budget Table and Budget Justification

• Review the list of eligible and ineligible expenses below. 
• Include enough detail in your Budget Justification for a reviewer to understand how the amounts in your Budget Table connect with the research activities outlined in your Project Description.
• Consult the  UMass Controller's Office website  for standard mileage amounts and other travel expense guidelines. 
• For travel outside the United States estimate your living expenses using your prior experience in that country or the  Fulbright-Hays Maintenance Allowance  guide (use the Monthly Stipend column).

Instructions for Faculty Advisor

The faculty advisor reviews the completed Budget Table and Budget Justification, writes a letter of recommendation, and  submits it online . Note: Faculty do not receive a prompt to submit a letter; use the link provided here. Faculty must login using their UMass email to access the submission portal; non-UMass faculty should contact  researchgrant [at] grad [dot] umass [dot] edu (Heidi Bauer-Clapp)  for submission instructions. 

Please include the student's first and last name in the file name. The letter of recommendation should address the following:

• The student’s ability to carry out the activities proposed in the Fieldwork Grant application.
• The student’s progress in degree program and general academic qualifications.
• The merit of the intended dissertation research and how activities proposed in the Fieldwork Grant application will help the student complete their dissertation.

Review Criteria

The following information will be considered by reviewers: 

• Clarity and quality of the Project Description--applications will be reviewed by faculty outside your field who need to understand what you plan to do, how you will do this work, and the potential impact your work will have. Avoid jargon and technical language! 
• Feasibility of the proposed project: Does it seem likely that you can complete the research plan as outlined? 
• Whether the budget is realistic and cost-efficient
• Quality of the letter of recommendation

Eligible expenses  include (but are not limited to):

• Research-related travel to research site(s) or local travel at the research site(s)
• Living expenses at research site(s) (e.g. lodging, food)
• Fees to use libraries, archives, or databases while at your research site(s)
• Duplication or distribution of research materials (e.g. photocopies of surveys)
• Purchase of research supplies or equipment, which will remain the property of the University

Ineligible expenses  include:

• Salary for the graduate student applicant
• Expenses related to student training, including language or methodology training
• Transcription
• Online research (e.g. costs to conduct an online survey)
• Standard office or laboratory supplies (these include items considered standard for your department/laboratory, i.e. things routinely in stock)
• Purchase of computers or tablets (unless the student can demonstrate that such equipment is integral to data collection)
• Food (with the exception of meals while in the field)
• Costs to attend or present at conferences or meetings
• Purchasing data sets
• Purchase of books
• Fees or other costs associated with publication
• Fees or other costs associated with membership in professional associations
• Costs incurred at home while the researcher is in the field (e.g. rent)

In most cases, award funds will be disbursed as reimbursements, although some expenses such as equipment purchases must be paid directly by the University. Awarded funds are managed by the student’s department; awardees must communicate with their department’s business manager prior to spending any grant funds. Grant recipients will be required to submit a brief report at the end of the grant period to account for how grant funds were spent.

Supplements for Public Engagement or Travel with Children

Applicants for Graduate School Grants are eligible to apply for supplements to cover costs associated with Public Engagement projects or childcare/travel with children during research. Please review the criteria and application information in the Public Engagement and Travel with Children pages.

Questions on the Graduate School Fieldwork Grant should be addressed to  researchgrant [at] grad [dot] umass [dot] edu ( Heidi Bauer-Clapp ) .

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PhD Candidate Salma Shash Awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

Salma Shash has been awarded a prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year. The fellowship, in its second year, is awarded to a cohort of graduate scholars for their “bold and innovative approaches” to dissertation research in the humanities and social sciences. The award will support Shash’s project, “Villagers, Criminals, and Policemen: Policing and Justice in Rural Egypt, 1854-1914,” which received accolades in The Current . Read more about Shash’s award-winning work here .

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DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Dhondup t. rekjong named 2024 robert h. n. ho family foundation dissertation fellow in buddhist studies.

May 22, 2024

The Religious Studies Department  is proud to announce that Dhondup T. Rekjong has been awarded a 2024 Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Buddhist Studies.

Dhondup T. Rekjong is one of   11 scholars   at universities in Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States who have been awarded $30,000 each for dissertation fieldwork, archival research, and writing.   This program is made possible by a grant from   The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global   and administered by the   American Council of Learned Societies   (ACLS).

 Rekjong ’s   research project is titled  “Silence and Speech” and focuses on how a generation of Tibetan scholars employed the Buddhist approach of skillful means to preserve and cultivate Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan language within the walls of China's colonialism from 1950 to 1990. The publications, correspondences, and oral histories of these scholars provide significant contributions to research on colonialism, the fluidity of religion and secularity, and indigenous cultural knowledge in the field of religious studies and beyond.

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies   promotes the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist thought in scholarship and society, strengthens international networks of Buddhist scholars, and increases the visibility of new knowledge and research on Buddhist traditions.