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James. J. Harvey Dissertation Quarter Fellowship

Introduction

UCI's Graduate Division plans to award one James J. Harvey Dissertation Quarter Fellowship for academic year 2009-2010. This fellowship is intended to provide a doctoral student with financial support while working to complete their dissertation. The James J. Harvey Dissertation Quarter Fellowship is limited to one academic quarter and is non-renewable. It is anticipated that the selected graduate student will be awarded a $7,000 total stipend.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the James J. Harvey Dissertation Quarter Fellowship, the nominee must be studying male or female homosexuality; including, but not limited to the sociological, medical, political, historical, or legal ramifications thereof. Also encouraged is the study of James J. Harvey's life, work, or his expansion of research in homosexuality; or the research in or development of any of James J. Harvey's original manuscripts, whether published or unpublished.

Academic units may nominate an outstanding doctoral student beginning his/her final work on their dissertation. The graduate student must be within one year of completing his/her dissertation and would be expected to file it within 12 months of beginning their fellowship tenure. The nominee must have advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. no later than May 15, 2009. Successful completion of the Ph.D. degree is expected to occur no later than one-quarter after the end of the student’s dissertation fellowship tenure. These criteria must be met for a nomination to succeed. In addition to the recommendations made by the student's Dissertation Committee Chair, Department Chair, and Associate Dean, other factors to be considered in the Graduate Dean's award decision will include an evaluation of the student's academic record, degree progress (including the time since matriculation into the program), and plan for completion of all degree requirements.

To be considered, all individual student nominations must include the following:

All AY 2009-10 nomination materials must be received in the Graduate Division office no later than noon on Friday, May 15, 2009. Please submit electronically to Long Nguyen at Nguyen.Long@uci.edu. Decisions will be announced by June 26. Applications must be submitted via the school’s Associate Dean and must indicate the academic quarters in which the student will utilize the fellowship.

For further information regarding the terms of eligibility, internal departmental deadlines, and the acquisition of application materials, please contact the Associate Dean of your department's school.

Nomination Process: (last updated April 27, 2009)

  1. Departments to complete the new nomination form for each nominee
    1. The new nomination form is a fillable/savable Word documents and can be found on the Graduate Division Web site: James J. Harvey Dissertation Quarter Nomination Form
    2. Click here for some instructions on using Word-based data entry forms
  2. Save nomination forms in Word as "HARVEY - SID#.doc" (e.g. "HARVEY - 12345678.doc")
  3. Print the nomination form and gather original signatures
  4. Scan all documents to a single PDF file for each nominee once forms are final with signatures, in this order:
    1. Nomination form
    2. Formal proposal by the student nominee describing their dissertation project, progress to date, and detailed plan with timeline for completion
    3. Academic evaluation from their doctoral committee chair
    4. Student's current Curriculum Vitae
  5. Save the new PDF file as before, "HARVEY - SID#.pdf" (e.g. "HARVEY - 12345678.pdf")
  6. Prepare to send as follows when all documentation is complete::
    1. Email to Nguyen.Long@uci.edu:
      1. Each original Word.doc nomination form
      2. Each PDF packet (packet to include items listed above)
  7. DEADLINE to submit nominations to the Graduate Division: Friday May 15, 2009
    1. Incomplete nominations packets will not be reviewed
    2. No exceptions to this deadline will be considered

Past Scholars - AY 2008-2009

  • Margaux Cowden
    MARGAUX COWDEN

    Degrees:

    • Ph.D., Comparative Literature (Emphases in Feminist Studies and Critical Theory), UC Irvine, in progress
    • M.A., Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, 2003
    • B.A., English, Ohio University, 2001

    Research: Sexual Dissidence, Travel, and French and American Modernism
    Current Position: Teaching Assistant, First-Year Integrated Program, UC Irvine
    Student Bio

  • Yuka Kanno
    YUKO KANNO

    Degrees:

    • Ph.D., Visual Studies (Emphasis in Feminist Studies), UC Irvine, in progress
    • M.A., Film Studies, Tokyo-Gakugai University, 1999, Tokyo, Japan

    Research: Japanese Film and Queer Visual Culture
    Current Position: Graduate Student Researcher, UC Irvine
    Student Bio