The Center for the Humanities at UC Merced offers a summer dissertation writing fellowship with a public humanities component. Fellows will be offered writing space in our public humanities design studio if they do not currently have office space on campus. Please note that these fellowships are open to graduate students who have taken their qualifying exams and have been advanced to candidacy. Fellows will receive an $8,000 summer fellowship. Please be sure to request that the required supporting letter from your advisor be sent by the application deadline.
The fellowship comes with the following requirements:
1) Presentation of a research paper at the Center for the Humanities based on your dissertation topic.
2) Completion of a small-scale public humanities project (please contact Christina Lux if you would like to discuss potential options, but these may include, for example: a blog or blog series, a short video, an exhibit, etc.); this project should not be so large as to distract significantly from dissertation writing, but should rather complement the dissertation project.
3) 1-page report on dissertation writing progress made and 1-page report on the public humanities project, with the reports due by Sept. 1.
