Award Description
Made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Jean Stone, this fellowship helps fund an exceptional graduate student dissertation research project focusing on women or gender.
2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 and Earlier
Jean Stone,
born Jean Factor, collaborated with her husband, Irving Stone, as a
researcher and editor on eighteen biographical novels. For over five
decades, she was involved with and supported UCLA. Stone had a long and
productive relationship with CSW. Her relationship with the Center began
with her participation in the Friends of CSW in the late 1980s. She
attended many CSW-sponsored talks and, after 1990, when she made her
first contribution to CSW, she never missed the annual Awards Luncheon.
Stone, who passed away in 2004, cared deeply about the graduate students
whose research on women embodied the promise of the next generation of
women scholars. Her commitment to graduate students is reflected in the
dissertation fellowships she established. On more than one occasion, she
noted how much pleasure she derived from supporting stellar young
scholars and their research. In addition to the fellowships she
established during her life, her legacy to UCLA now includes the Irving
and Jean Stone Dissertation Year Fellowships.
