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SOCIETY OF FELLOWS 2024–25 DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWSHIP 

Applications are once again invited for the Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship. 

We expect to offer one fellowship for the 2024–2025 academic year, with stipends beginning in Summer 2024. Research during the SoF Fellowship may be carried out at the University or elsewhere. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and aim for conferral of the degree no later than August 2025. 

The award consists of $35,000 plus health insurance and UVA fees.

Eligibility: The competition is open to all present and past SoF Junior Fellows pursuing the Ph.D. who will have completed all degree requirements except the dissertation by the application deadline.

Deadline: Friday, February 16, 2024

Applicants should submit by the deadline of February 16th:

1. A single Word file titled ‘SoF Diss Proposal YOUR NAME,’ which includes:

a) a  proposal  of no more than three double-spaced pages that speaks to a learned non-specialist

b) a one-page  timeline  for the completion of the dissertation and the defense

c) [optional] up to three additional pages of images, musical scores, or other similar supporting non-text materials 

d) a  bibliography  of no more than two pages

e) a  curriculum vitae  

2. A single word file titled ‘SoF Diss Sample YOUR NAME,’ which includes:

A  completed chapter  of the dissertation (that is neither the introduction, nor the conclusion, nor the literature review)  or a published paper .

3. A  transcript  labeled ‘SoF Diss Transcript YOUR NAME.’ 

In addition, the following supporting materials should be submitted by individual faculty no later than the deadline of February 16:

4.  Two letters of recommendation

5. A  statement  from the Director of Graduate Studies or the Department Chair attesting to the viability of the proposed timeline for completion and defense.

Applications and recommendation letters should be sent electronically to Charles T. Mathewes, Secretary of the Society of Fellows at [email protected] no later than February 16.

A committee of SoF Senior Fellows will review applications following these  criteria :

• The potential of the project to advance the field and to make an original and significant contribution to knowledge.
• The quality of the proposal with regard to its methodology, scope, theoretical framework, and grounding in the relevant scholarly literature.
• The feasibility of the project and the likelihood that the applicant will execute the work within the proposed timeframe.
• The scholarly record and career trajectory of the applicant.

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Graduate students are strongly encouraged and supported in their efforts to identify and pursue funding opportunities that will supplement their living support from the Graduate School, advance their research goals and distinguish them professionally.

As outlined in the Graduate School's policy regarding external awards, doctoral students may combine financial support awarded upon admission with funds awarded by agencies outside of the University to increase their overall living support, reduce their teaching duties and, in some circumstances, extend their guaranteed support into a sixth year. 

Before applying for a grant or fellowship, students should seek guidance and feedback on draft materials from their faculty and peers.  The Graduate School also co-sponsors workshops and tutorials for grant writing and research statements through the  Office of Graduate Career Development .

The following are descriptions of funding competitions administered by the Graduate School and in partnership with other academic units at the University and links to further information and application processes.

Jefferson Scholars Foundation Graduate Fellowships

The  Jefferson Scholars Foundation  awards a two-year sequenced dissertation completion fellowship and postdoctoral appointment with the College Fellows to top doctoral students in all fields of the arts and sciences. Details regarding the application process are announced annually in December.

AHSS Summer Research Grants

In collaboration with the Office of Graduate & Postdoctoral Affairs and the University of Virginia’s Society of Fellows, the Graduate School awards grants of up to $5,000 to doctoral students in the arts, humanities and social sciences to support preliminary dissertation research during the summer months.  These grants fund research travel to archives, collections and field sites that will enable the student to determine the feasibility of prospective dissertation projects, survey available sources and clarify the research focus, thus better positioning the student to apply for support from external funding agencies to support the advanced stage of research and writing. Applications are accepted from January 15 through March 1, and awards are announced during the first week of April. 

Scholars’ Lab Fellowships in the Digital Humanities

The Scholars’ Lab in the University Library supports a number of funding opportunities for emerging scholars and practitioners of the digital humanities.  The Praxis Program  supports a team of six University of Virginia PhD students from a variety of disciplines to conceive, develop, publish, and promote a digital project over the course of an academic year.  The Lab also offers a Digital Humanities Prototyping Fellowship  to individual graduate students who wish to develop a particular project and a Digital Humanities Dissertation Fellowship to advanced doctoral students who are completing dissertations with digital content.

Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship

The Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship supports outstanding advanced graduate students with a need to investigate archives or gather other information in a foreign country or countries. Fellowships are normally awarded to graduate students in architecture, history, politics and other related fields.  Applications are accepted from January 15 through March 1, and awards are announced during the first week of April. 

Albert Gallatin Graduate Research Fellowship

The Albert Gallatin Graduate Research Fellowship supports graduate students who are engaged in the research or writing of a dissertation in the broad area of "international affairs" and whose research requires travel.  Applications are accepted from January 15 through March 1, and awards are announced during the first week of April.

Dean’s PhD-Architecture Fellowships in Historic Preservation and Urban Design

These fellowship programs support students whose dissertation research and professional goals will derive specific and significant benefit from completing the graduate certificate in Historic Preservation or Urban Design offered by the School of Architecture.  Students enrolled in any Arts & Sciences doctoral program are eligible to apply for the Dean’s PhD-Architecture Fellowship during their second or third years of enrollment in their PhD program. 

Students who are awarded the fellowship will one semester of teaching relief during the subsequent academic year in order to facilitate completion of coursework related to the graduate certificate.  Students pursuing the Urban Design certificate will also receive an additional $2,000 in living support during the coming summer and full payment of tuition to attend the pre-requisite Summer Design Institute offered by the School of Architecture.

Applications are accepted from January 15 through March 1, and awards will be announced during the first week of April.

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A&S Exchange Fellowships: France and Germany

Arts & Sciences offers two exchange fellowship programs that provide an incremental year of financial support to advanced doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences.  The exchange fellow will have full library privileges, a faculty advisor and access to all academic services at the host institution, including courses.  Each fellowship provides a full year of living support and remission of tuition, fees and the University’s single-student health insurance premium.  Recipients are eligible to defer one year of support offered upon admission into their sixth year of study. Although advancement to candidacy is not required at the time of the application deadline, the exchange fellow must have completed all requirements for candidacy prior to the start of the fellowship. 

Applications are accepted from January 15 through March 1, and awards will be announced in late March.

École Normale Supérieure (ENS) – Paris, France

ENS is located in rue d'Ulm at the heart of the Latin Quarter, and it has one of the best libraries in Paris.  The ENS Fellow will receive from ENS a private, single-student dormitory-style room (i.e., no en suite bathroom or kitchen facilities) and access to ENS recreational facilities and to the ENS cafeteria at subsidized student prices.  To complement this in-kind support, the ENS Fellow will receive a stipend of $14,000 from the Graduate School.  The ENS Fellow must be fluent in French and arrive at ENS on or around September 18, 2023, and depart no later than July 07, 2024.

If you have additional questions, please contact  Professor Ari Blatt ( [email protected] ).

Technische Universität Dormund – Dortmund, Germany

TU Dortmund is a major research university located in Germany's greening industrial Ruhr Valley, existing in a consortium with the nearby University of Duisberg-Essen and University of Bochum. Together they boast outstanding faculty across all major fields of scholarly and scientific inquiry, with special strengths in American Studies, Cultural Studies, and History, among others.

The Dortmund Fellow will design and teach two two-hour courses per semester at Dortmund’s  Institute for American Studies  under the guidance of the Institute’s director.  The courses may deal with American literary, cultural and historical topics from a transatlantic perspective and/or as comparative (German-American or European-American) phenomena. Courses are taught in English.  Knowledge of the German language is helpful, but not required.

The fellow will receive teaching wages from Dortmund in the amount of €13,000 (approximately $14,800 at present exchange rates) and a fellowship stipend of $14,000 from the Graduate School.  The fellow will be expected to arrive at Dortmund on or around October 1 and depart no later than July 30.

If you have additional questions, please contact Tyisha Hathorn  ( [email protected] ).

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All dissertations submitted to the UVA Library in CD format were deposited into Libra in early 2014. Access to these items is UVA-only, replicating the accessibility level of the originally deposited CDs.

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We no longer accept paper copies for the Library shelves.  Many frequently requested dissertations from the UVA collection have been added to Libra through a generous grant from Jefferson Trust. If you are the author of one of these dissertations now in Libra and would like to change the access level to be world-wide open access, please  contact us .

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Many UVA dissertations were deposited in ProQuest until 2012, and some students continue to take the option to deposit to this commercial vendor of databases and other information products. ProQuest’s  Dissertations and Theses Full Text  database contains many dissertations published in the U.S. and is used by scholars worldwide whose institutions opt to provide paid access to the database. ProQuest also sells full-text copies of dissertations directly to the public, though it is worth noting they do not share revenue from those sales with authors. NOTE: To access "online" ETD's in Proquest, you must be affiliated with an institution that subscribes to the ProQuest database.

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Fellowships

The Jefferson Scholars Foundation supports world-class graduate students through two fellowship programs–the Jefferson Fellowship Program and the National Fellowship Program.

Jefferson Fellowship

The Jefferson Fellowship is the premier graduate fellowship offered at the Darden School of Business, the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and the Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Science. Based solely on merit, Jefferson Fellowships are designed to identify Ph.D. and  M.B. A. candidates who demonstrate outstanding achievement and the highest promise as scholars, teachers, public servants, and business leaders in the United States and beyond. Once selected, Jefferson Fellows are charged with furthering the quality of education, intellectual life, and mission of the University through their academic pursuits and community engagement. 

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Jefferson Fellows in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences participate in a two-year program and will receive:

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• Postdoctoral Research Associate salary, consistent with first-year teaching Postdoctoral appointee as determined by UVA ’s Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs
• Standard academic fringe benefit package for Research Associates as designed by UVA ’s Office of Human Resources. The current fringe benefit includes provisions for retirement, health insurance, social security, and other benefits.

Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Science

Jefferson Fellows in the Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are nominated by the departments to which they applied. Recipients of the Fellowship will receive:

• $5,000 in year one and $10,000 in years two through five, in addition to their standard departmental financial package
• Research funds up to $2,500

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National Fellowship 

The National Fellowship supports outstanding scholars at leading institutions of higher education, including UVA , who are completing dissertations in United States politics, with an emphasis on historical and institutional analyses of politics, public policy, and foreign relations. National Fellows receive:

• Training workshops to enhance skills relevant to leadership in academic research, higher education, and related institutional endeavors
• One year of support for dissertation research and writing, with the possibility of a second
• A stipend of $30,000 in the first year, potentially renewable for a second
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• Opportunity to form and lead a research network centered on selected area of expertise

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The Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowship is a $10,000 award that supports research dealing with the role of government in a free society, public service, public policy, and improved understanding of America's role in world affairs. The Institute desires to encourage and assist promising individuals to pursue studies and research in fields such as: history, government, economics, business administration, and international affairs. 

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Candidates must be in good standing and have an approved research proposal prior to applying, with an expected completion date.  All students in good academic standing are eligible to apply, regardless of U.S. citizenship or residency.  Current PhD Students in History, Politics, Economics, Business Administration, or related fields preferably at the dissertation-writing stage of their PhD candidacy are especially encouraged to apply.

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Selected nominees’ full applications due to OGPA:  Thursday, March 14, 2024

Fellowship notifications will be sent by June 1, 2024

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• The applicant’s curriculum vitae
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• A statement describing the nature and scope of the dissertation, including expected completion date (750 words or less)
• A statement of the applicant’s career aspirations, with a focus on connecting research to professional/volunteer experience and/or career aspirations and applications outside academia (750 words or less)
• A statement describing how the applicant will use funding (at least 50% should be used for research-related activities) 
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The Woodson Institute’s Residential Fellowship Program has attracted outstanding scholars in the humanities and social sciences who work on a wide array of topics in African-American and African Studies, as well as related fields. These two-year fellowships—offered at the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels—are designed to facilitate the writing of dissertations or manuscripts and provide successful applicants the opportunity to discuss and exchange works-in-progress both with each other and the larger intellectual community of the University. Preference is given to applicants whose research is substantially completed, thus providing them the maximum amount of time to complete their manuscripts within the fellowship term.

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For advanced PhD students completing dissertation projects, the program exposes pre-doctoral fellows to other emerging scholars from Universities across the nation, offering the space, guidance, and intellectual exchange necessary to complete one's research and successfully defend one's dissertation.

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Post-doctoral fellows take up residence in the Minor Hall Annex to compose their book manuscripts. These newly minted PhDs also have the opportunity to develop their teaching portfolios by instructing one course per year in the Department of Africana Studies. 

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Many former fellows speak highly about the benefits of the interdisciplinary nature of the program. Most especially, the feedback and commentary provided during the fellowship workshop . 

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Eligible students in the humanities and social sciences are guaranteed a dissertation completion fellowship (DCF) between the G4 and G7 years and must apply for the DCF in advance of the dissertation completion year.

Before applying, students should:

• review DCF opportunities offered by Harvard research centers (see below) and search the CARAT database for DCFs offered by non-Harvard agencies
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• follow the instructions for dissertation completion fellowships and apply by February 9, 2024, at 11:59 p.m.

Award description and confirmation typically occurs in early May.

While there is no guarantee of a DCF beyond the G7 year, requests will be considered upon recommendation of the faculty advisor.

Instructions for departments can be found on the instructions for dissertation completion fellowships page.

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Other dissertation completion fellowships are available through the Harvard research centers.

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Search the CARAT database for dissertation completion fellowships offered by non-Harvard agencies.​ Here are a couple of examples:

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Looking for dissertations on a particular topic to complete your research or determine whether your proposal will be a unique topic? Increasingly full text dissertations are freely available, though a thorough search means searching multiple resources and consulting your local librarian.

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