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Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellowship
Organization
Princeton University
University Center for Human Values
304 Laura Wooten Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone Number (609)258-4798
Emails eisgrube@princeton.edu
Level of Study Graduate Degree
Award Type Fellowship
Prize
Purpose To recognize and support post-generals graduate students with distinguished academic records in any discipline whose dissertation research centrally involves the critical study of human values.
Focus Social sciences.
Qualifications Applicants are expected to be enrolled and in residence during the academic year; those who intend to do fieldwork or research away from Princeton for extended periods of time are not eligible.
Criteria Selection is primarily based on the promise of excellence in an applicant’s dissertation work, the applicant’s capacity to contribute constructively to the fellows’ group, and the likelihood that participation in the program will help to shape and improve the applicant’s dissertation. Preference will be given to applicants who are in the relatively early stages of work on their dissertations.
Funds $39,000
Duration Annual.
To Apply Applications can be submitted online; curriculum vitae; includes a brief overview of the applicant’s dissertation written for non-specialists, with a description of how the project bears on a dimension of the critical study of human values; reflection as to the value of the fellowship for the applicant’s dissertation completion and future goals; the names and contact information for two faculty referees; an unofficial graduate transcript.
Deadline February 18 (application); February 22 (faculty recommendations).
Contact For questions contact Melissa Lane (melissa.lane@princeton.edu) or Regin Davis (regin.davis@princeton.edu); URL: uchv.princeton.edu/fellowships-grants-prizes/graduate-prize-fellowshi ps.
For more information http://uchv.princeton.edu
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