LEADERSHIP LAB: Focus Your Future Through Fellowship Applications Friday, November 15, 2013

How to Find Fellowships Featured Fellowships and Fellowships Database through the Office of Graduate Student Affairs: UCLA Fellowships Database: (can sign up for s as well) Cornell Fellowships Database: Check with the professional organization in your field. Area Centers on campus often offer fellowships. For internal fellowships, check with your department and the Dean of Students Office.

Who Can Help Your Faculty Adviser/Director of Graduate Study Department Administrator Dean of Students Office In Social Sciences, see Kelly Pollock, Associate Dean of Students, Office of Graduate Student Affairs Jessica Smith, Assistant Director, Fellowships, Meghan Hammond, Manager of Graduate Student Outreach,

Fellowships our Students Win Predoctoral Fellowships National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Dissertation Research Fellowships Fulbright U.S. Student Program Fellowship Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Fellowships Dissertation Write-Up Fellowships Association of American University Women Dissertation Fellowship National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship Josephine de Karman Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship

General Fellowship Tips Start Early Many fellowship applications are due a year in advance of the funding cycle. Be thinking ahead about what you will apply to. Communicate with your faculty adviser(s) Make sure you’re on the same page about schedules/plans and that they are prepared to write letters for you. Read the Application Carefully Be sure you know the deadlines and requirements. Answer the questions they ask in the essays. Write Clearly Know your readers and avoid jargon. There’s no room for flowery language in a 2-page essay. Be sure the reader doesn’t have to work to understand your project. Use Positive Language Sell yourself. But be sure to justify your fund-worthiness without tearing down others.

Presenters Katie Kinzler, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Psychology Elizabeth Todd-Breland, History PhD 2010, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago Michal Ran-Rubin, PhD Student in the Department of Anthropology Jessica Smith, Assistant Director of Fellowships, Office of Graduate Student Affairs Kelly Pollock, Associate Dean of Students, Division of the Social Sciences