Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

Amount

One $1,500 fellowship.

Criteria

The student must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program at UCLA and be in engaged in research focusing on feminist and working-class issues, must demonstrate excellence in teaching and a commitment to teaching as activism, and must have advanced to candidacy by one month prior to award deadline. Students who advanced to candidacy after the deadline are not eligible.

To apply

The application must contain the following materials in hard copy only:

Three copies of each:

• Constance Coiner Graduate Fellowship Cover Sheet
• Personal Essay (see Cover Sheet for essay guidelines)
• Curriculum Vitae

One copy of:

• Letters of recommendation from two faculty members (one letter for academic/teaching work,
  and one letter for community work). The letters should be sealed in an envelope
  with the recommender’s signature across the back flap.

Deadline

5:30 PM
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Marcus Desmond Harmon

Marcus Desmond Harmon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Musicology Department at UCLA working with Professor Mitchell Morris. His dissertation, "In a Melancholic Country: Identity, Loss, and Mourning at
the Borders of Country Music," explores depictions of grieving, loss, and nostalgia in the work of four contemporary country music artists. His research interests include American popular music, working-class cultures, psychoanalysis, and LGBT studies. As a teacher, Marcus is particularly interested in improving access to education for underrepresented students.

Khanum Shaikh

Khanum Shaikh just received her Ph.D. In Women’s Studies. In her dissertation, entitled “Religious Reconfigurations: The Growing Participation of Urban Pakistani Women in Religious-Based Movements,” Khanum focuses on how a Muslim women’s organization, the Al-Huda Academy for Women, has grown in popularity, often by using cyberspace to generate transnational networks that promote a cultural and religious hegemony.

Anne (Daisy) Rooks