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Graduate Fellowship Application

Graduate FELLOWS

Please note: Graduate fellowships cannot be awarded to students in their 8th year or later.  Therefore, applicants must be in their 6th year or earlier at the time of applying.

The Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies invites applications for graduate T.H. Breen Fellowships and ONE Quinn Fellowship for the next academic year. The Quinn Fellowship is designated for students in their last year of dissertation work. All the fellowships are at the level of a full-year Northwestern graduate stipend, with TGS providing tuition. Fellows are given the choice of having the stipend paid over three quarters (9 months without summer support) or over 12 months, from September through August.

Applicants may apply for both the Breen and Quinn fellowships. Selection of recipients and allocation of fellowships will be made by a faculty committee and announced by mid-May. The CCHS fellowship does not count towards the maximum years of departmental support.

Center Fellows are expected to participate fully in the ongoing work of the Center. Responsibilities also include (1) providing assistance during the time that visiting speakers and global graduate student exchanges are on campus, and 2) serving as liaisons between the Center and the undergraduate Leopold Fellows.

APPLICATION DEADLINE for 2024-25 Fellowships: Tuesday, APRIL 9, 2024 by 4 p.m.

Please send the application materials to Assistant Director Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch at efp@northwestern.edu as a doc, docx or pdf file.  Recommendation letters should be e-mailed to the same address by the deadline.

The Center expects to select 2-3 Breen Fellows. The responsibilities of the Breen Fellows may include organizing CCHS digital media, assisting with the Center's global graduate exchange with Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), or helping organize 1-2 faculty conferences or symposia.


The application materials should contain the following:

1. Current CV (with contact information)

2. A brief (one-page) description of the applicant’s academic work and how they could contribute to the Center’s activities.

4. A signed form indicating a willingness to take on the full range of  responsibilities for Center Fellows: documents/grad-fellow-responsibilities-2023-form.doc

5. A letter of recommendation from the head of the applicant's dissertation committee.

 

The QUINN Fellowship is offered in partnership with the Doris G. Quinn Foundation. It is designated for students in their last year of dissertation work.

The Quinn Fellow is expected to participate fully in the ongoing work of the Center, organize workshops for Center associates, and complete writing the dissertation.

The application materials should contain the following:

1. CV (with contact information)
 
2. A  brief description of the applicant's dissertation (no more than 1-2 pages)
 
3. A sample chapter of the dissertation.
 
4. A signed form indicating a willingness to take on the full range of  responsibilities for Center Fellows: documents/grad-fellow-responsibilities-2023-form.doc

5. A letter of recommendation from the head of the applicant's dissertation committee.