Institute for Citizens & Scholars Fellowship Opportunities

ATTENTION:

Graduate Students

The Institute for Citizens & Scholars, formerly the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, has opened its 2023 competition for several fellowships that support either dissertation completion or junior faculty progress toward tenure.

Recipients not only receive support for their work, but also join a more than 75-year-old network of some 27,000 WW Fellows—a select group with an impressive collective record of scholarship, teaching, service, and public influence. Fellows find that these fellowships also give them opportunities to connect across fields with others who have similar interests and serve as a hallmark of promise widely recognized in their disciplines.

Fellowships for doctoral candidates completing dissertations

The WW Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies*

Since 1974, the WW Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies has been the only national program supporting original, significant, interdisciplinary doctoral dissertations on women’s and gender issues.

  • Award: $5,000
  • Deadline: October 14, 2022.

*Pending continued success in fundraising to sustain the Women’s Studies Fellowship, C&S anticipates making up to eight awards in spring 2023.

The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

Newcombe Fellows are late-stage Ph.D. students studying how ethical and religious values shape society, including political decisions, public life, culture, history, literature, and other areas. This award is funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation.

  • Award: $30,000
  • Deadline: November 15, 2022.

Fellowships for junior faculty

The Career Enhancement Fellowships

The Career Enhancement Fellowships support faculty pre-midterm review who are outstanding underrepresented tenure-track junior faculty committed to campus diversity and innovative research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Through the program, Fellows build a diverse academic community and system of support as they pursue careers as university faculty and administrators. This award is funded by the Mellon Foundation.

  • Award: $35,000
  • Deadline: October 21, 2022.


The Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award*

The MEFL Award supports tenure-track junior faculty post-midterm review whose research focuses on contemporary American history, politics, culture, and society and who are building inclusive campus communities through their teaching, scholarship, and service. This award is funded by the Mellon Foundation.

  • Award: $17,500
  • Deadline: December 1, 2022.

*Pending funding renewal by the Mellon Foundation.