Reimburse costs up to an individual maximum of $2,500 for travel to field site, specialized training not available through UW, or unusual expenses essential to proposed dissertation project. The Scholarship Committee will give priority to proposals for pilot and pre-dissertation fieldwork that will enhance subsequent applications for scholarships and grants (NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants, Fulbright, SSRC, etc.). Only one such application per student will be granted during a student’s career. Preference will be given to applications received from fourth or sixth semester applicants (i.e., for use in the summer of the second or third years).
Application shall consist of a two-page (maximum) statement of purpose, methodology and timeline, expected contributions to the discipline, and should clearly demonstrate how the research activity will contribute to preparation of the dissertation proposal. If individuals have applied to other funding sources for the same or a similar proposed summer research activity, that source and application status should be clearly stated. In addition, the proposal should contain a one-page itemized budget of the estimated costs, a one-page vita, and a letter of support from the student’s primary adviser. The Chair of the CES Scholarship Committee will judge the intellectual merit of the application (or ask a CES faculty member who does advise the student but is knowledgeable in the student’s subject area to judge the application). If the student receives outside funding for this research after the above application is submitted, the student must so inform the Scholarship Committee and the CES award may be withdrawn or modified. For Spring 2024, applications are due on April 2 for the research projects conducted in Summer or Fall 2024.
Past Award Winners
2021:
Matthew Zinsli
2018:
Angela Serrano Zapata
June Jeon
Jill Richardson
Kurt Kuehne
2017:
Isaac Leslie
Garrett Grainger
2016:
Todd Flournoy
2015:
Lee Scrivener
2013:
Annabel Ipsen
2011:
Madeleine Fairbairn
2008:
Becky Schewe
Ozlem Altiok
John Zinda
2007:
Katrina Becker