Fall 2008 Competition for Award Year 2009-2010

Students should check with their departments for internal deadlines. Departments must submit no later than 4:00pm on Friday, October 17, 2008. It is recommended that student and department submitted material be double-spaced, utilize Times New Roman, font size 12 point, for text and Times New Roman, font size 10 point, for headers and footers. It is recommended that files be sent in either Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

GSAS Office of Academic and Student Life
One-half Fifth Avenue, Garden Level
(between Washington Square North and Washington Mews)
(212) 998-8060
gsas.studentlife@nyu.edu
website: http://gsas.nyu.edu/page/grad.life.fellowships

Download the nomination form here.

GSAS Fall Awards Description

Dissertation Writing Fellowships

Each carries a stipend, a waiver of maintenance of matriculation fees, and 100% coverage of the NYU comprehensive health insurance plan for an individual. The stipend will reflect the GSAS minimum stipend for 2009-2010. In 2008-2009 the minimum stipend was $22,000.

DEAN’S FELLOWSHIPS
Thirty are available for eligible GSAS students in all departments. Departments may nominate no more than two students.

JAMES ARTHUR FELLOWSHIP
One award is available to a GSAS student whose dissertation concerns the measurement, meaning or conceptualizing of time.  This could include current or past technologies, subjects like cosmology, relativity theory, carbon dating, anthropological, psychological, historical, linguistic or literary perspectives, or many other areas of inquiry.  The Dean’s Office reserves the final decision whether a nominee’s research meets the topic requirement.  Departments in which eligible work is being conducted may nominate one student.  Students nominated but not selected for the James Arthur Fellowship will automatically be considered for the GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship.  Recipient must submit a final progress report by September 1 after the award academic year to GSAS Office of Academic and Student Life (OASL).

Dissertation Research Fellowship

Each carries an annual stipend, a waiver of maintenance of matriculation fees, and 100% coverage of the NYU comprehensive health insurance plan for an individual. The stipend will reflect the GSAS minimum stipend for 2009-2010. In 2008-2009 the minimum stipend was $22,000.

ELAINE BRODY FELLOWSHIP FOR THE HUMANITIES
One award is available to a GSAS student whose planned dissertation research requires extended research abroad.  The student should have completed all coursework, have an approved dissertation proposal, and is planning to travel abroad to complete his or her dissertation research.  The project description should clearly indicate the need for extended research outside of the United States and its territories.  Departments in which eligible work is being conducted may nominate one student.  Students nominated but not selected for the Elaine Brody Fellowship will automatically be considered for the GSAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship.  Recipient must submit a final progress report by September 1 after the award academic year to GSAS Office of Academic and Student Life (OASL).

LANE COOPER FELLOWSHIP
One award is available to a GSAS student who intends to pursue a teaching career in history, literature, philosophy or classical and medieval languages.  Research may concern any period up to and including, but not later than, the Renaissance. Departments in which eligible work is being conducted may nominate one student.  Recipients must submit a final progress report by September 1 after the award academic year to the New York Community Trust.

TORCH FELLOWSHIP (Pilot Program)
The Torch Fellowship carries an annual stipend, a waiver of maintenance of matriculation fees, and 100% coverage of the NYU comprehensive health insurance plan for an individual.  A small stipend will also be awarded to the host institution at which the recipient will conduct the research.

Three Torch awards are available for GSAS doctoral students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents.  Awards are to be used to conduct student’s final year of dissertation research abroad.  Special consideration will be given to students who plan to conduct research in the region or country that has a demonstrable and significant connection to the student’s family of origin, as this program seeks to encourage scholars to “give back” to the land of their heritage.  International students are eligible to apply though their country of proposed research may not be the country indicated on their student visa.  The research must be conducted in, and related to, a country or region outside the United States.  There is no age limit for individuals applying for the Torch Prize Fellowship.  Departments in which eligible work is being conducted may nominate one student.  Recipients must submit a final progress report to the GSAS Office of Academic and Student Life (OASL) by September 1 after the award year.

Preference will be given to those most likely to finish. Except for the Lane Cooper and the Torch Fellowships, it is expected that these awards will enable students to complete their dissertation and graduate at the end of the 2008-2009 year.