LEADERSHIP LAB:
Focus Your Future Through
Fellowship Applications
Friday, November 15, 2013
How to Find Fellowships
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Featured Fellowships and Fellowships Database
through the Office of Graduate Student Affairs:
http://grad.uchicago.edu/fellowships_funding/
UCLA Fellowships Database:
http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/grpinst.htm (can sign
up for emails as well)
Cornell Fellowships Database:
http://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/fellowships
Check with the professional organization in your
field.
Area Centers on campus often offer fellowships.
For internal fellowships, check with your
department and the Dean of Students Office.
Who Can Help
Your Faculty Adviser/Director of Graduate Study
 Department Administrator
 Dean of Students Office
In Social Sciences, see Kelly Pollock, Associate
Dean of Students, kpollock@uchicago.edu
 Office of Graduate Student Affairs
Jessica Smith, Assistant Director, Fellowships,
jessicasmith@uchicago.edu
Meghan Hammond, Manager of Graduate Student
Outreach, mrhammond@uchicago.edu
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Fellowships our Students Win
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Predoctoral Fellowships
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
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Dissertation Research Fellowships
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Fellowship
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Fellowships
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Dissertation Write-Up Fellowships
Association of American University Women Dissertation Fellowship
National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship
Josephine de Karman Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship
General Fellowship Tips
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Start Early
Many fellowship applications are due a year in advance of the funding cycle.
Be thinking ahead about what you will apply to.
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Communicate with your faculty adviser(s)
Make sure you’re on the same page about schedules/plans and that they
are prepared to write letters for you.
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Read the Application Carefully
Be sure you know the deadlines and requirements. Answer the questions
they ask in the essays.
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Write Clearly
Know your readers and avoid jargon. There’s no room for flowery language
in a 2-page essay. Be sure the reader doesn’t have to work to understand
your project.
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Use Positive Language
Sell yourself. But be sure to justify your fund-worthiness without tearing
down others.
Presenters
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Katie Kinzler, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor
in Psychology
Elizabeth Todd-Breland, History PhD 2010, Assistant
Professor of History, University of Illinois at
Chicago
Michal Ran-Rubin, PhD Student in the Department
of Anthropology
Jessica Smith, Assistant Director of Fellowships,
Office of Graduate Student Affairs
Kelly Pollock, Associate Dean of Students, Division
of the Social Sciences