Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship

This award, initiated in 2006, is made possible through the generosity of Stony Brook faculty and staff who have contributed to campaigns to support graduate fellowships. The award is intended to assist a graduate student who has advanced to candidacy and whose research project requires fieldwork, archival work, or other research efforts requiring the student to be away from campus for an extended period.

One award, in the amount of $10,000, will be granted.

Departments and programs with graduate students at the dissertation stage may nominate one (1) candidate. The nomination must be made by the student's Graduate Program Director (GPD).

Each nomination should include:

A completed Google Nomination Form.
A letter of nomination from the student's Graduate Program Director (GPD). The letter should outline the student's current funding situation. If there is a conflict, the Department Chair can provide this nomination letter in lieu of the GPD.
Letters of support from (1) the student's advisor, (2) Department Chair, and (3) another program faculty member.
A short summary of the nominee's status as a graduate student. This should include the date of admission, year of study, date of advancement to candidacy, and expected date of completion of the doctoral degree.
Dissertation abstract, or similar summary of the project. This should be geared toward a general audience.
The student's C.V.

The nomination deadline is Monday, February 25, 2019, at 5:00 pm.

Past Recipients

2019: Shruti Mukherjee, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

2018: Chikako Takahashi, Linguistics

2017: David Yee, History

2016: Nicholas Parkinson, Art History

2015: Evelyn Pain, Anthropological Sciences

2014: Sasha Rodriguez, Sociology

2013: Erica Laine Nooney, Cultural and Analysis Theory

2012: Fernanda Page-Poma, Sociology

2011: Lunpeng Ma, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies

2010: Lauren Neefe, English

2009: Lauren Rosenblum, English; Weidong Cai, Psychology; Lauren Joseph, Sociology

2008: Andrea Boffa, History

2007: Amy Travers, Sociology

2006: Jesse Young, Anthropological Sciences (first year awarded)