Dean's Prize Teaching Fellowship - Now Accepting Applications
Thanks to a generous gift from Mr. Steven and Barbara Mendell, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts is offering a Dean's Prize Teaching Fellowship. This award is intended to reward excellence in teaching and to encourage curricular design and pedagogical practices that integrate scholarly research into undergraduate teaching. Prize-winners are appointed as Teaching Associates for one quarter to offer an independently-taught seminar developed in consultation with a faculty mentor and the department or program in which the course will be taught. In addition to a regular Teaching Associate appointment, each Dean’s Prize Teaching Fellow receives a supplemental stipend and a research account to assist in the development of the course or activities related to the syllabus. Applications are now being accepted for the 2008-2009 academic year. Application deadline is April 28, 2008.
Prize Description and Application Details
Application Cover Sheet

2007-2008
Joseph Campo, PhD Candidate in the Department of History, has been awarded the Dean’s Prize Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities and Fine Arts for 2007-2008. Mr. Campo will receive an appointment as Teaching Associate for one quarter to teach the seminar that he developed in consultation with his faculty mentor, Professor Harold Marcuse. The course proposed by Mr. Campo, "The Second World War 1937 to 1945: A Global Perspective," will discuss a retelling of the events from several different cultures and an in-depth examination of the sources they come from. The course is designed to teach students to examine primary sources and to understand that each perspective is valid while dispelling the notion that one version is more factual than another, thereby validating the notion of "truth." He also will receive an additional stipend and a course-related research fund.

2006-2007
Eric Boyle, PhD Candidate in the Department of History, has been awarded the Dean’s Prize Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities and Fine Arts for 2006-2007. Mr. Boyle will receive an appointment as Teaching Associate for one quarter to teach a seminar that he developed in consultation with his faculty mentor, Professor Michael Osborne. The course, “Proseminar in the History of Alternative Medicine,” will be taught in the winter quarter, 2007. He also will receive an additional stipend and a course-related research fund.

2005-2006
Lucia Ricciardelli, PhD Candidate in History of Art and Architecture, has been awarded the Dean’s Prize Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities and Fine Arts. Ms. Ricciardelli will receive an appointment as Teaching Associate for one quarter to teach a seminar that she developed: “American Documentary Practice of the Western Crisis in Historical Narration.” The course will be offered through the Film Studies Department in the 2005-06 academic year.

2004-2005
Maeve Devoy, Ph.D. Candidate in History, was awarded the Dean’s Prize Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities and Fine Arts to teach a class in the 2004-05 academic year. Ms. Devoy will receive an appointment as Teaching Associate for one quarter to teach the independently-taught seminar she developed in consultation with her faculty mentor, Professor Laura Kalman. In addition she will receive a supplemental stipend and a research account to assist in the development of the course. The selected proposed course, "Readings in U.S. Political History: The Progressive Era to the Present,” will be offered through the History Department in spring, 2005.

In previous years the Division of Humanities & Fine Arts administered graduate support awards in several categories, including the Graduate Recruitment Awards, the Pre-ABD Graduate Student Research Grants, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Fellowships in Western European Studies, awards through the Consortium for Literature, Theory, & Culture, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Pre-doctoral Fellowship Enhancement.

Please visit the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; the Walter Capps Center for the Study for Ethics, Religion, and Public Life; and the Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture for additional graduate study funding opportunities within the Division.

Graduate Funding Archive, 1999-2003

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