Graduate Prize Fellowships are awarded to excellent doctoral students at Princeton who are working on interdisciplinary dissertations in the area of ethics and human values. Fellowships are open to enrolled graduate students from any department at Princeton who have passed their general examinations and are working on their dissertations.
Graduate Prize Fellowships, made possible by a gift from Laurance S. Rockefeller '32, normally provide each graduate fellow with a stipend of $25,800 for 12 months. Graduate fellows of the center are expected to make substantial progress toward completion of their dissertations and to participate in various center activities, including a faculty-graduate seminar, where they present their work in progress. Students may not take on additional work, including departmental precepting, while holding a Graduate Prize Fellowship.
Graduate fellowships are awarded on the basis of (1) the quality of an applicant's dissertation proposal and graduate work to date; (2) the relevance of the proposal to the goals of the center; (3) the potential for completing the dissertation in a timely fashion; and (4) the likely future contribution to teaching and writing about ethics and human values. Fellows are chosen among applicants by a faculty committee of the University Center for Human Values.
Applicants should submit via online form
- a dissertation prospectus, including a report of progress on research and writing to date, and a plan for timely completion of the dissertation;
- Two letters of reference (one from their dissertation supervisor and at least one faculty member familiar with their work) evaluating their dissertation plans.
- a dissertation chapter or other scholarly paper written in the past year;
- a CV, which should include the length of the program in which they are enrolled and their current year of enrollment.
Applicants should also arrange for their current and official graduate transcript to be sent directly to the University Center for Human Values from the registrar’s office.
Applicants must be enrolled graduate students at Princeton for the duration of the fellowship. Fellowship applications for the academic year 2009—10 are due Friday, March 6, 2009. Awards are announced by April 15, 2009.
For more information, please contact Sue Winters at suewint@princeton.edu.