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Department of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley
Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation
Research Assistant and Summer Research Fellowship
2006 Application procedures
Application Deadline:
February 17 th
Once again this year, funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
will allow the Sociology Department at the University of California,
Berkeley, to offer a small number of graduate students in their
first two years of the Sociology Ph.D. program the opportunity
to work as a Research Assistant and to receive a Summer Research
Fellowship. That is, even though only advanced graduate students
are eligible for the regular Mellon Fellowship, students who are
initiating their graduate work and interested in pursuing work
on Latin America are eligible to apply for two kinds of assistance.
The first of these is a Research Assistantship: These one-quarter time research
assistantships are designed to link new sociology graduate students with research
projects being conducted by faculty affiliated with the Center for Latin American
Studies (CLAS), primarily non-sociologists. The experience will give sociology
students interested in Latin America interdisciplinary research apprenticeships
that will further broaden their Latin American Studies expertise. It will
also build ties between CLAS faculty and sociology graduate students that have
the potential to benefit students later on in their training. Students
are only eligible to receive one such fellowship during their graduate studies. Interested
students should contact either the Director, or the Associate Director, of The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Latin American Sociology, Professors
Peter Evans and Laura Enriquez, respectively, for assistance in setting up their
Research Assistantship.
The second form of support is the Summer Research Fellowship: These will be awarded
competitively and will provide a special opportunity to further develop students'
knowledge of Latin America and to explore research possibilities than may feed
into potential dissertation research. The amount of the Fellowship stipend
is $3,250, with an additional $1,750 for travel expenses. Application
Procedure: Candidates for the Summer Research Fellowships should
submit: 1) a copy of their graduate transcripts; and 2) a brief (2-3 pp.) summary
of their proposed plan of research for the summer during which they would like
to receive funding. All materials should be delivered to the Sociology
Department Graduate Assistant (Elsa Tranter) in rm. 422 by Friday, February 17th
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If you have any questions : Contact Peter Evans (642-5877/pevans@berkeley.edu); Laura Enriquez (642-2502/enriquez@berkeley.edu); or Elsa Tranter (642-1657/etranter@uclink4) |
