Dissertation Fellowships 2012-13

This page is for dissertation fellowships 2012-13 (including research fellowships, dissertation completion fellowships, and other predoctoral opporunities).

I didn't find this page already in existance, but if it is please link it here in the description box. If not, I guess this is the new page!! Good luck to all

The previous year's page (2011-12) is HERE.

ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Application due November 9th 2011 (References and Institutional Letter due November 14th) http://www.acls.org/programs/dcf/
 * Survey: How many people following this wiki applied for this. (x30)
 * Rejection email 1/14, said over 700 applicants.
 * Awards and rejections came at the same time last year (early March). Were there first-round rejections this year? Has anyone else heard anything?
 * Nothing. Perhaps above posting was an error? Or me and all the people I know made it past first round? (in which case, yay!) (1/20)
 * Nothing here, either. I'm a little suspicious-- but maybe all of us following this are just incredibly brilliant. :) I'll hope for the latter.
 * Rejection post probably refers to the ACLS early career fellowships, which notified last week and had around 700 applications (1/20).
 * I applied for this fellowship a couple of years ago and there were 1,200 applicants - I'd be surprised if this number dropped by 500 in this market!
 * When can we expect to hear from them, any ideas?
 * Hello all, I hope we are excited about this one? Any ideas when can we expect the news. Do we know a date? (02/29)
 * It seems next week will be THE week.

AAUW Dissertation Fellowship
Application Due: November 15, 2011 (Recommendations due by November 17)

Did anyone here apply for this?

Survey: How many following applied for this? (x11)

American Academy in Rome- Rome Prize
No word yet (1/23)

Word around here is that the short list has already been contacted for interviews, but not confirmed (1/26)

What do you mean by around here?
 * around my department, where a student (not in residence) is rumored to have gotten an interview

Not a peep (2/3) but I heard they do interviews in March. There is a student in my department that has an interview scheduled with the selection comittee. (2/6)
 * Last year interviews were scheduled by the end of January and took place in February. Those not on the short list were not notified of their status until the end of March, when the winners were notified. As much as I want to believe otherwise, I'm pretty sure that not a peep means we're out of the running at this point

Very kind rejection letter received by email today (2/29 x2).

rejection letter received by email (3/1) Has anyone else who didn't get an interview (which I assume means the rejection is pending) also not heard? (2/29)
 * This seems really early--last year decisions weren't sent out unil March 22. Can anyone confirm?
 * I confirm; was rejected from both ancient and medieval areas this afternoon.

BC African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellowship
Survey: How many people applied for this fellowship?

CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship
How many people have applied? (x1)

CASVA Predoctoral Fellowships
Has anyone heard anything yet?

Nothing here (2/1)

or here (2/3)

Still nothing (2/6)

Interviews are taking place this week. (2/6)

Has anyone who interviewed heard anything yet? (2/11)

Rejection letter in the mail yesterday (2/12). Good luck to those who interviewed!

Any news for those who interviewed yet {C}? (2/13)

Rejection letter in the mail (2/13). Congratulations to the chosen few!

Has anyone who interviewed received a rejection? (2/14)

Not yet (2/15) {C}Post interview rejection letter arrived (2/16)

CLIR-Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
Does anyone know how many people usually apply for this fellowship? (Or, how many people applied last year at least?) Thanks!

I received (but declined) the fellowship last year: the letter said 15 applicants were selected from a pool of 488. Good luck!

Did you go through an interview process?

My friend received this fellowship last year and did not have an interview.

Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship
How many followers applied for this? (x15)

Pleasant rejection email received 2/22 (x14) Received an e-mail on 2/22 informing me that I've been selected as a finalist. E-mail says "of over 550 applications, the top 10% have been selected and forwarded to the Final Selection Committee for review" and "at least 21 Fellows will be chosen in this final round."
 * Pleasant but nonetheless disheartening (x2)
 * Congrats!
 * Thanks! I'm quite surprised, and trying not to get my hopes up since it's still more likely than not that I'll ultimately be rejected. Good luck to the rest of you!

Cornell University Pre-/Postdoctoral Fellowship
http://as.cornell.edu/academics/opportunities/diversity-fellowships/index.cfm {C}Due November 1st 2011 to paritcipating department via email (16 departments)


 * Survey: who is applying to what departments?
 * Please see information in cross listed post: http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/Humanities_and_Social_Sciences_Postdocs_2011-12#Cornell_Diversity_Fellowships

Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship (Columbia)
How many followers applied for this?

Five College Fellowship Program
http://www.fivecolleges.edu/academic_programs/academprog_fellowship.html Rolling applications accepted starting January 2nd, 2012


 * how many people have applied for this? it looks like there were 330 applicants for four spots last year and the awards weren't announced til late! (x10)
 * Anyone hear back from this one? It says announcement made in march but I wonder if they generate short litsts?
 * Yes, they do. I applied last year. We were told responses in March. I e-mailed in April and was told responses w/in two weeks. I called in early May, and the administrator I spoke with checked her short list and said I wasn't on it. She also said that the hold up was that individual colleges had to make their choices, and they didn't issue any offical notices until all the colleges had done so. Offical rejection came in June.
 * contacted 5 Colleges administrator Feb 5 -- still accepting applications. went on to contact respective institutions within the consortium about likelihood of hosting a fellow in certain divisions or departments --
 * reply February 10, no need in social sciences at Hampshire College
 * reply from UMASS via Five Colleges administrator: UMASS does not typically accept a fellow. Rather, fellows are dispersed amongst the other four colleges
 * I applied in the social sciences as well - any news from the other colleges? Thanks!


 * If last year's wiki is any indication, nobody hears anything for awhile...yikes!!

Ford Dissertation Fellowship
'''Has anyone else applied for this fellowship? '''

Yes x7

Fulbright IIE
First round emails sent out 1/19/2012

Harvey Fellows Fellowship
Applications were due 1 Nov. 2011. Decisions are supposed to go out 3/1/2012. Anyone heard anything? How many people applied?


 * - I was applicant #9.


 * - 2/9/12: i haven't heard anything. I think 250ish people applied last year.


 * Survey: How many wiki followers have applied for this fellowship? (x3)


 * Survey: Has anyone heard anything except for the initial acknowledgement of materials being received?


 * - If you don't mind me asking, what subject did you apply under? (2/14/2012)-


 * - History (1)
 * - Philosophy (1)
 * - Religion (1)


 * 2/21/12 - Who knew rejection was so hard? Rejection notification received via email.

Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing fellowship in American Indian and Indigenous Studies
http://erm.yale.edu/fellowships-opportunity Due March 23rd

Ithaca College Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship
wiki followers applying for this fellowship position (x4)

-- applied February 2 with automatic HR response indicating I applied for "PRE-DOCTORAL DIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP in Humanities and Social Sciences"; just received (February 20) another seemingly automatic HR responses of same wording except title changed, "PRE-DOCTORAL DIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP in [I'm withholding the specific department name for confidentiality]". It appears as if they grouped candidates into respective departments and programs.

--I also received the above-described HR message (Feb 20), and was intrigued to discover which department/program they had assigned me to, since I had indicated an openness to a joint appointment in two different programs.

--Like others, I received the same HR message (Feb 20). They assigned me to my home discipline, though I made no indication in my application which department/program I hoped to be placed in.

-- I also received the same HR message (Feb 20). Does anyone know when references are contacted for letters?

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS)
Has anyone else applied for this? Yes (x1)

Josephine de Karman Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Has anyone else applied for this fellowship? Yes (x10)

Kress Institutional Fellowships
{C}They will be notifying in early March, it seems.
 * do you mind sharing where you heard this? Just wondering :)
 * I saw it here: http://www.kressfoundation.org/about/faq/
 * March inches ever closer...

Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship
How many following applied to this? (x1)

Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship (Kenyon College)
FYI: Although the online employment site is still accepting applications for this position, an administrator informed me (02/07) that the search committee is in the final stages and is no longer reviewing applications. Good luck to those who applied!

The Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship (French)
Has anyone else applied for this?

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies Dissertation Fellowship Program
http://www.mceas.org/dissertationfellowships.shtml

Metropolitan Museum of Art Fellowship
Anyone else following applied for this? (x5)

Any word yet?

Nothing here yet (2/14)

Does the Met conduct interviews for this fellowship?

Not usually. Last year acceptance letters arrived by snail mail in early March.

Middlebury College Dissertation Fellows Program
Wiki followers applying for this fellowship position (x6)

Anyone know when we might hear? Last year someone posted a rejection email from this program on 03/08/11.

Anyone know how many they accept? I think they only accept one, but I'm not 100% sure on that.

From the website, it looks like they accept one fellow per year, but sometimes extend a fellowship for an extra year, so they might have two fellows at once (as they appear to have this year--one in History, one in Women's and Gender Studies).

What departments are people applying into? Philosophy (x1)

American Studies (x2)

Women's and Gender Studies (x1)

Geography (x1)

Spanish (X1)

I received an email message today (02/27) indicating that applications are currently under review and Skype interviews are expected to begin with finalists in the second week of March (x3)

Did everyone who applied receive the email mentioned above? It looks like it was an automated message via Interfolio.

Miller Center
- Survey, who has applied for this (x3)

-Survey: anyone apply for that technology one? (x1)

SSRC-Drugs, Security, and Democracy Fellowship
Who applied for this?

Any News?

SSRC-IDRF
Requests for transcripts sent via email 2/2

Rejection via mail 2.13.12 (x6), letter said over 800 applicants, rejection letter I got said over 1,100 applicants applied from 126 universities.

Soroptimist Founder Region Fellowship
Who applied? (x1)

United States Institute for Peace (USIP) Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program
Any news? How many applicants?

They uploaded the letters of recommendation to the online applications (under Applicant Attachments) 2/24/2012

Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Fellowships
{C}'''Any news on rejection letters/notification for the 1st phase? It is Feb/12 and I have not heard a word...'''

Feb. 15th, phase 1 e-mail received (acceptance) (x2)

Feb 15th, (rejection - 1st phase) x1

Williams College Bolin Fellowship
Rejection via email 01/05: x2

Message included this info: "Nearly 100 applications" and "you have not been selected as one of the semi-finalists."

Have not heard anythign so fingers crossed. Anyone know when they announced last year (2011 for 2011-2012academic year)?

Rejection received on 02/29 - via email was told i was on a "very short list of semi-finalists" and that "The final cut had less to do with the caliber of applications than with the “fit” of certain scholarly interests with our plans for staffing and the curriculum in the coming year."

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Women's Studies
Are the results out? I have not heard anything

How many here applied for this? (x5)

Does anyone know when results for this one are usually announced (ball-park)?
 * From looking at their website, in years past fellows were announced as early as January, but most often in April--I'm expecting to hear one way or another in late March/early April