Help Sustain The Women’s Studies Fellowship
The WW Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies has been supporting outstanding Ph.D. candidates since 1974. These Fellows, conducting original, significant, interdisciplinary research on women’s and gender issues, have gone on to grow and shape the field of women’s studies. After nearly 50 years and more than 600 Fellows, the program needs your help. We need […]
A Desire to Support Better Educated Citizens
Married Former Fellows Give to C&S Barry Sullivan, a 1970 Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and Dr. Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, a 1992 Newcombe Fellow, met at a student party when they were law students at the University of Chicago in the 1970s. Both credit the Fellowships they received for supporting their varied and distinguished careers. Mr. Sullivan […]
Spring Newsletter 2021
The spring 2021 issue of Fellowship, the newsletter of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, includes recent Fellowship class announcements, profiles of Fellows researching democracy, a look into the selection process for annual Fellowship classes, and more. Read the full issue here.
2021 Newcombe Fellows Named
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows Named For 2021 NEWS RELEASEFOR RELEASE: May 13, 2021CONTACT: Frances Hannan | Director of Multimedia Projects | 201-587-4755Jeré Hogan | Program Officer, Newcombe Fellowship Note: Prospective applicants should email newcombe@citizensandscholars.org Program Supports Promising Scholars Completing Dissertations Related To Ethics And Religion PRINCETON, NJ (May 13, 2021)—The Institute for Citizens & Scholars has named 22 Fellows […]
Career Enhancement Fellows Named For 2021
NEWS RELEASEFOR RELEASE: Wednesday, May 5, 2021CONTACT: Frances Hannan | hannan@citizensandscholars.orgCaroline Harper, Mellon Senior Program Officer | harper@citizensandscholars.org AWARDS SUPPORT CAREER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR TENURED, ADJUNCT FACULTY IN THE HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES, AND ARTS PRINCETON, NJ (May 5, 2021) – The Institute for Citizens & Scholars has named 39 new Career Enhancement Fellows for the 2021–22 academic year. […]
Book Spotlight: The Upswing
The Upswing: How America Came Together A Century Ago And How We Can Do It Again (Simon & Schuster) By Robert D. Putnam WF ’63 and Shaylyn Romney GarrettA time when the United States was deeply polarized, highly individualistic, noticeably unequal: that might sound like a description of the present. But, according to Robert D. […]
Why We Need Civics
Is a lack of civic education partly to blame for our national distress? Citizens & Scholars President Rajiv Vinnakota was featured in the Princeton Alumni Weekly on the importance of civic education. From the article: Vinnakota’s report titled “From Civic Education to a Civic Learning Ecosystem: A Landscape Analysis and Case for Collaboration” found broad, bipartisan agreement […]
2021 Women’s Studies Fellows Named
New Fellows Named For 2021 WW Dissertation Fellowship In Women’s Studies NEWS RELEASEFOR RELEASE: Tuesday, March 30, 2021CONTACT: Frances Hannan |hannan@woodrow.org | (201) 587-4755Jeré Hogans | Program Officer | hogans@woodrow.org Promising Scholars Join Program That Has Built Field Over Five Decades PRINCETON, NJ (Tuesday, March 30, 2021)—Eight promising scholars have been named WW Dissertation Fellows in Women’s Studies for 2021 […]
Spring 2021 Class of Higher Education Media Fellows Named
Journalists Named In Third Class Of Higher Education Media Fellows NEWS RELEASEFOR RELEASE: March 11, 2021CONTACT: Frances Hannan, Program Officer, Higher Education Media Fellowship | 201-587-4755 | hannan@citizensandscholars.org Fellows To Build Career And Technical Education Knowledge To Inform Reporting Projects PRINCETON, NJ (Thursday, March 11, 2021)—Eleven journalists have been named Higher Education Media Fellows at the Institute […]
Sanctuary Everywhere
Barbara Sostaita is a 2020 Women’s Studies Fellow and a doctoral candidate in religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Each year, Citizens & Scholars invites new Fellows to submit a brief story introducing themselves and/or their work. This story is from 2020 Women’s Studies Fellow Barbara Sostaita, a doctoral candidate in […]