Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

Amount

One $3000 fellowship.

Criteria

Student must be registered and enrolled in a Ph.D. program at UCLA, must be engaged in research focusing on women and the law with preference given to research on women in the criminal/legal justice system, and must have advanced to candidacy by one month before 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:

• Paula Stone Dissertation Research Fellowship Cover Sheet
• Dissertation Abstract (3-5 pages)
• Budget Statement (describing how the funds will be used)
• Curriculum Vitae
• Transcripts (unofficial copy is acceptable)

One copy of:

• Letters of recommendation from two faculty members (one of which must be
  from the candidate's chair). The letters should be sealed in an envelope with the
  recommender’s signature across the back flap.

Deadline

5:30 PM
Thursday, April 9, 2009

Courtney Denine Marshall

A Ph.D. candidate in English and a graduate concentrator in Women's Studies, Courtney Marshall's dissertation, "Law, Literature, and the Black Female Subject" traces the theoretical connections between critical race studies and Black feminist literary criticism. Her related interests include queer theory and critical prison studies.

Emily Carman

Emily Carman is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Cinema and Media Studies program at UCLA’s Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media. The Paula Stone Award will support the research and writing of her dissertation project, tentatively titled “Independent Stardoms: Female Film Star Labor, Agency, and the Studio System in the 1930s,” which she hopes to complete in the 07-08 academic year. She also served as the Thinking Gender conference coordinator for 2007.

Azza Basarudin

Azza Basarudin is a doctoral candidate in the Women’s Studies Programs, where she is working on a comparative study of the cultural meaning of Islam in Muslim women’s lives and experiences in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Her other interest includes postcolonial and feminist theory; indigenous feminisms; nationalism and exile; sexuality; and human rights in Islam.