Graduate Prize Fellowships

The Graduate Prize Fellowship program is intended to recognize and support post-generals graduate students with distinguished academic records in any discipline whose dissertation research centrally involves the critical study of human values. In addition to providing tangible support, a main purpose is to enable people working on topics in human values to engage with each other both informally and in a faculty-led fellows' seminar, where they present their work in progress.

The principal considerations in the selection of fellows will be the promise of excellence in an applicant's dissertation work, the applicant's capacity to contribute constructively to the fellows' group and the likelihood that participation in the program will help to shape and improve the applicant's dissertation. Accordingly, preference will be given to applicants who are in the relatively early stages of work on their dissertations. Except in extraordinary cases, we do not expect to support students who would be beyond their fifth year of enrollment during the fellowship year.

Graduate Prize Fellowships provide a stipend of $32,000 for twelve months. (The stipend will substitute for the student's ongoing University fellowship stipend during the Graduate Prize Fellowship term.) Fellows are expected to make substantial progress towards completion of their dissertation and to participate regularly in the fellows' seminar. They will also be invited to participate in other activities of the University Center. Fellows must be enrolled for the duration of the fellowship and may not take on any teaching or other employment.

Application Procedure

Applicants will be asked to provide the following supporting materials:

• a CV, which should include the length of the program in which the student is enrolled and their current year of enrollment;

• a dissertation prospectus, including a report of progress on research and writing to date, and a plan for timely completion of the dissertation;

• a dissertation chapter or other scholarly paper written in the past year (not to exceed 50 double-spaced pages); and

• the names and contact information of two faculty referees (including the dissertation supervisor) who are familiar with the student's work. Referees will be contacted directly with instructions for uploading letters of reference.

In addition, applicants should arrange to submit an electronic version of their current and official graduate transcript

The names of the recipients of the 2012-13 Graduate Prize Fellowships will be announced by Monday, April 30, 2012. Application details for 2013-14 will be available next spring.

For questions, please contact Erum Syed at 609-258-2739 or erum@princeton.edu.

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