Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Deadline: October 21
Fellowship Details:
- The total award of up to $38,000 includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research support. In addition to the monetary support that the fellowship offers.
- Tenure: one year
ACLS invites applications for the seventh annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. The program encourages timely completion of the Ph.D. A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program.
The total award of up to $38,000 includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research support. In addition to the monetary support that the fellowship offers, Dissertation Completion Fellows are able to apply to participate in a seminar on preparing for the academic job market. The seminar takes place over three days in the fall of the fellowship year.
Eligibility
- The program is open to Ph.D. candidates in a humanities or social science department in the United States.
- Applicants must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation (obtained ABD status) by the application deadline.
- The program is restricted to graduate students who have progressed no further than the sixth year of the degree program. (This includes time for a master’s degree obtained en route to the Ph.D.)
- Graduate students who currently hold or have previously held a dissertation completion fellowship are not eligible for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
- Unsuccessful applicants may reapply to this program only once.
Click here for more information: http://www.acls.org/programs/dcf/
(Last checked 1.25.17)