Graduate School Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships
for 2008-2009

In spring 2008, the Graduate School will award up to 40 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships for Academic Year 2008-2009. Each fellowship will carry a stipend of $10,000. Recipients also will receive candidacy tuition remission and $800 toward the cost of health insurance. The fellowships provide financial support for either the Fall 2008 or the Spring 2009 semester, and are intended for students who are in the final stages of writing their dissertations, whose primary source of support is unrelated to their dissertations, and who expect to receive their degrees in December 2008, May 2009, or August 2009. Each doctoral program may nominate up to two students.

Programs will evaluate candidates on four criteria:

1. The likelihood of the student's completing the dissertation during the 2008-2009 academic year.

2. The quality of the student's work.

3. The potential contribution of the dissertation to the student's field of research.

4. The student's other sources of support.

Applicants will be asked to submit an application form; a 500-word abstract written for a general audience, including a statement of the significance of the study; a one-page statement of the work completed to date, the work remaining, the timeline, and the expected completion date; a curriculum vitae; and two letters of recommendation. Recommendations should be written by the student's advisor and the program's or department's director of graduate studies. If the advisor is also the director of graduate studies, the second letter should be written by the program or department chair.

Students who wish to apply for the fellowship should submit a copy of the application form and the required attachments to their advisor and director of graduate studies. Students who have funding that is directly related to their dissertation research, who hold another substantial fellowship, or who will not graduate by August 2009, should not apply.

Each department or program chair is asked to convene a committee to select its nominee or nominees. Nominations are due in the Graduate School by noon, Friday, March 14, 2008. Departments and programs should submit twelve (12) sets of the student's materials (original plus 11 copies). Copies must be collated and recommendations must be integrated into the packets (not sent separately). Please use clips only (no staples). Students should check with their director of graduate studies to see when the department will review applications.

The recipients of the Wylie Dissertation Fellowships will be announced in April 2008.

Links to application materials are available below: