American Dissertation Fellowships Application 2018-2019, USA

• American Fellowships are not open to previous recipients of any AAUW national fellowship or grant (not including branch or local awards or Community Action Grants). Members and officers of the AAUW Board of Directors are not eligible to apply for fellowships and grant awards. AAUW staff or volunteers with decision-making authority who wish to apply for an award must recuse themselves from the decision-making process.

• American Fellowship candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

• American Fellowships are open to women scholars in all fields of study.

• The American Dissertation Fellowship must be used for the final year of writing the dissertation. Applicants must have completed all coursework, passed all preliminary exams, and had the dissertation research proposal or plan approved by November 1, 2018. The doctoral degree/dissertation must be completed between April 1 and June 30, 2020. Degree conferral must be between April 1 and September 15, 2020.

• Dissertation Fellows are not required to study in the U.S.

• Students already holding a fellowship or grant for the purpose of supporting their final year of writing or completing the dissertation the year before the fellowship year are not eligible to apply.

• Applicants may apply up to two times for a fellowship for the same dissertation project.

• The fellowship is intended for applicants who are completing their first doctoral degree.

• Distance learning/online programs: American Fellowships support traditional classroom-based courses of study. This fellowship program does not provide funding for distance learning programs or for degrees heavily dependent on distance learning components. Final decisions about what constitutes distance learning under these fellowships will be made by AAUW.

The American Fellowships panel meets once a year to review applications for funding. Awards are based on the selection criteria outlined here. The panel’s recommendations are subject to final approval by the AAUW Board of Directors. Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis according to funds available in a given fiscal year.

To ensure a fair and objective review process, AAUW does to comment on the deliberations of its award panels. No provisions exist for reconsidering fellowship proposals after the board has acted. AAUW does not provide evaluations of successful or unsuccessful applications.

Applications and supporting documents become the sole property of AAUW and will not be returned or held for another year.

In selecting fellowship recipients, the following criteria will be considered:

• Applicant’s scholarly excellence
• Quality of project design
• Originality of project
• Scholarly significance of project to the discipline
• Feasibility of project and proposed schedule
• Qualifications of applicant
• Applicant’s commitment to women’s issues in the profession/community
• Applicant’s mentoring of other women
• Applicant’s teaching experience
• Potential of applicant to make a significant contribution to the field
• Applicant is from an underrepresented racial/ethnic background
• Applicant is from an underrepresented area of the country and/or type of university other than a top-level research institution
• Financial Need

The primary criterion for fellowship awards is scholarly excellence. Applications are reviewed by distinguished scholars and should be prepared accordingly.

American Dissertation Fellowships funds are available for

• Educational expenses
• Living expenses
• Dependent child care
• Travel to professional meetings, conferences, or seminars, as long as it does not exceed 10 percent of the fellowship

American Dissertation Fellowships funds are not available for

• Purchase of equipment
• Indirect costs
• Research assistants
• Previous expenditures, deficits, or repayment of loans
• Publication costs
• Institutional (overhead) costs
• Tuition for dependent’s education
• Tuition for coursework that is in addition to credits required for maintaining full-time status while completing a dissertation
• Extended field research

AAUW regards the acceptance of a fellowship as a contract requiring fulfillment of the following terms:

• All American Fellowship recipients are required to sign a contract as acceptance of the award. Retain these instructions as they will become part of the fellowship contract if the applicant is awarded a fellowship.

• An AAUW American Fellow is expected to pursue her project full time during the funding period (July 1–June 30). No partial fellowships are awarded. Fellowships may not be deferred.

• Fellows may work up to 15 hours per week, or teach one section of one course per semester or term, with prior written approval from AAUW.

• The AAUW American Fellowships stipend must be larger than any other single award or remunerative position received during the fellowship year and must be acknowledged as the major award. Acceptance of concurrent funds of a lesser amount than the AAUW award is permitted but requires prior written approval from AAUW. Dissertation fellows cannot hold concurrent fellowships or grants for the purpose of supporting their final year of writing or completing the dissertation.

• Any major changes in plans for the fellowship year must have prior written approval from AAUW.

• AAUW must be notified promptly of any change in the status of an application resulting from acceptance of another award.

• Stipend checks are made payable to fellows, not to institutions.

• Fellows are responsible for reporting the fellowship as income to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

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