The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are accepting applications
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships aim to help original and significant study of ethical or religious values. The fellows can be in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. A major purpose of this program is to aid Ph.D. candidates in these fields to complete their dissertation work within a reasonable time frame. In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations might explore the ethical implications of foreign policy, the values influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in history or literature.
The fellowship was started in 1981. Since then, more than 1,200 Newcombe Fellows have been awarded. Fellows from early years of the program are now senior faculty members at major research universities and selective liberal arts colleges, curators and directors at significant scholarly archives, and leaders and policymakers at nonprofit organizations and in cabinet-level government agencies. In the past decade, the graduates of this program have been awarded many other prestigious national honors and awards.
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation operates the Newcombe Fellowship competition at the request of and in consultation with the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, a private foundation created under the will of Philadelphia philanthropist Mrs. Newcombe, who died in 1979.
Mrs. Newcombe greatly valued higher education; during her lifetime she sent the children of several friends to college, taking a vigorous interest in their progress. In her will, she established the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation to continue her scholarship gifts. Her legacy continues under the stewardship of the Foundation’s Trustees.
Location:
United StatesBenefits
- At least 20 non-renewable fellowships of $25,000 will be awarded for 12 months of full-time dissertation writing.
- In addition, fellows’ graduate schools will be asked to waive tuition and/or remit some portion of their fees.
Eligibilities
- The candidates must be enrolled for Ph.D. or Th.D. degrees at a graduate school located in the United States.
- Any individual working on D.Min., law, Psy.D., Ed.D. and other professional degrees are not eligible.
- The entrant must have all pre-thesis requirements fulfilled by the application deadline, including approval of the thesis proposal. They must be in the writing stage of their dissertation. Usually, this means that fieldwork or other research is complete and writing has begun by the time of the award. They must expect to complete their thesis between April 1, 2020 and August 31, 2020.
- Those who have held a similar national award for the final year of dissertation writing before are not eligible.
- The entrant has to be in a humanities or social science department, writing on topics where ethical or religious values are a central concern.
- The previous applicants of Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship are not eligible.
Application Process
Apply online through the given link.
Application Deadline: November 16, 2018
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