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The Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship, 2011-2012
The College of Arts and Humanities is seeking nominations for the Mary S. Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship for 2011-2012. The Mary S. Snouffer Scholarship Fund will support up to three fellowships for qualified students pursuing the doctorate in any discipline in the humanities, including the study of language, literature, culture, philosophy, history or the arts. Preference will be given to students in English, but scholarships can be awarded to students in other disciplines in the humanities and arts. Recipients of the scholarship shall be selected by a committee appointed by the Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities. Criteria for selection shall be based upon both academic merit and need. Each department should put forward its very best candidate and no department should submit more than three nominations. Proposals should be written with a non-specialist audience in mind.
Applicant Requirements:
- Must be a graduate student who has reached the dissertation stage.
- Must have completed all course work and passed the qualifying examination for the doctorate degree.
- Students receiving the Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship are expected to enroll full-time and to devote full time to work on their dissertation. To be certified as a full-time student, recipients of the Fellowship must be officially registered for 6 credits of 899.
- Recipients are not allowed to hold on- or off-campus jobs of more than ten hours per week.
Benefits:
The 9.5-month stipend for the Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship for the 2011-2012 Academic Year is $20,000. This amount does not cover health benefits and is not tax exempt.
- The Graduate School has agreed to cover the candidacy tuition remission for each fellowship recipient and will process all paperwork through Student Financial Aid at http://www.financialaid.umd.edu or 301-314-9000. The fellowship is non-renewable.
Deadline:
Nominations for the Mary Savage Snouffer Dissertation Fellowship must be received by Friday, March 11, 2011, noon.
Nomination packet should include:
- Nomination letter (by Chair or Graduate Director)
- Project description (2-3 pages) by the nominee
- Copy of the nominee's curriculum vita
- Letter of recommendation from the nominee's advisor
Send nomination packet to:
Associate Dean Elizabeth Loizeaux
College of Arts and Humanities
1102 Francis Scott Key Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Nomination packets may be sent electronically as a Word or pdf attachment to ebl@umd.edu, with a copy to hrivas@umd.edu.
For further information please contact Associate Dean Loizeaux at 301-405-5646 or ebl@umd.edu.
ARHU Graduate Student Travel Awards 2011-12
To support the professional development of our graduate students through the presentation of original research, the College of Arts and Humanities awards up to forty grants per year for travel to significant national and international conferences. There will be three competitions per year with approximately six awards given in each competition.
Eligible expenses include transportation, lodging, registration fees and per diem for food.
Up to $500 for travel within North America and $700 for international travel.
College deadlines (for departments to submit materials to the Dean’s office): Monday, October 11, 2011, Monday, December 5, 2011, and Monday, May 7, 2012. Please check with the individual program graduate director about the departmental deadline.
Students:
To apply, send the following to your graduate program director:
- short c.v.
- Letter of application including:
--Stage of graduate career (e.g., defending dissertation in Fall 2010)
--Brief description (no more than a paragraph) of the research to be presented and the format of the presentation (e.g. paper on a panel, poster presentation). Include a statement of the review process your presentation underwent.
-- Brief description of the conference and its organizing body, including the url of the conference/organization website
--Statement of the contribution the conference will make to your career
--Statement of whether application has been made for this trip to other funding sources (e.g. Goldhaber Travel Awards from the Graduate School). Students are encouraged to apply for outside funding.
- Budget of estimated costs
- Copy of the letter/email accepting/inviting the presentation
Graduate Directors:
- Please append to the packet of applications from your department a letter ranking the applications with a brief reason for your ranking of each candidate.
- Also include a statement of the amount of matching funds from the department
Priority will be given to students attending national or international conferences of major professional organizations. We want particularly to help students toward the end of their graduate careers gain experience and make contacts important to their intellectual and professional development and to their job prospects. However, the Fellowship Committee will hold aside a certain amount of funding for students presenting original work at prestigious conferences early in their careers (e.g., before advancing to candidacy).
Preference will be given to students who have not had an ARHU Travel Award in the past, unless it was an early career award . Awards will not be given for travel that has already taken place.