Society of Scholars Graduate Fellowship

Eligibility

UW doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy by submittal date and who will receive no other funding during the term of the award. 

Description

The Society of Scholars supports dissertating doctoral students in pursuing their research and sharing their individual projects-in-progress in the multidisciplinary, bi-weekly forum of the fellowship cohort—which typically is composed of 8 members of the faculty, at all ranks, and 3 dissertating doctoral students—over the course of the academic year.

The program also supports an additional cohort of dissertating doctoral students each summer.  

Criteria

Awards will be based on the scholarly merit of the individual applications. Scholarship likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group of colleagues especially encouraged.

Terms of Award

Academic Year Program

• Graduate research fellows of the Society of Scholars receive three quarters of support, including benefits and tuition waivers. 
• Residency requirement. In-person participation in the biweekly Society of Scholars means that this fellowship is not appropriate for those whose projects require time away from the university.

Summer Program

• Graduate research fellows of the Summer Society of Scholars receive an award of $10,000, with no benefits or tuition. The explicit intent of this support is to allow fellows to devote themselves full time to their projects during the six-week fellowship term, and it is an expectation that fellows will have no competing demands of teaching or other paid work during that time. 
• Residency requirement. In-person participation in the 6 weekly meetings of the fellowship cohort is an expectation of the program. This fellowship is not appropriate for those whose projects require time away from the university during the period of the meetings of the fellows. In Summer 2025, the meetings are anticipated to take place from the beginning of A term through the end of July.