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Dear juniors in Study of Religion,
Greetings from the Warren Center, Harvard's American history
research center. If you are planning a thesis in American history
broadly defined, please consider applying for a Warren Center Senior
Thesis Research Grant for summer 2007. More information appears
below, and at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cwc/grantsundergradapp.html. Note that
our deadline is March 12th.
We also welcome you at our events, a listing of which appears at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cwc/fsprogramschedule.html. Our theme
this year is "Cultural Reverberations of Modern War," and we welcome
you at our events.
My best wishes for the start of the spring term.
Arthur Patton-Hock, Warren Center administrator
CHARLES WARREN CENTER FOR STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH GRANT
SUMMER 2007
Each spring, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American
History awards up to four summer research fellowships to Harvard
College juniors writing a senior thesis on any topic in American
history. The award amount is typically (but not always) $2,500 each.
Undergraduates in any concentration are welcome to apply, but the
focus of the thesis must be on American history and the methodology
must be primarily historical. The purpose of the fellowship is to
enable students to spend a significant period of time on thesis
research in the summer preceding the senior year.
A complete application consists of the following:
* Submission of the materials listed below by 5pm on Monday, March
12th, 2007; deliver materials in hardcopy to the Warren Center,
Emerson Hall Fourth Floor
* Printed output from the Common Application for Research and Travel
(CARAT) found at
<https://admin-apps.fas.harvard.edu/carat/>https://admin-apps.fas.harvard.edu/carat/
Please contact Warren Center administrator Arthur Patton-Hock
(apattonh(a)fas.harvard.edu) if you encounter any difficulties
accessing or using the CARAT application.
* The research proposal, (no more than four pages, double-spaced)
including the following three elements: 1) statement of the subject
proposed, 2) list and discussion of the sources, libraries and
archives to be consulted, and 3) itinerary and plan of summer
research. This proposal should be developed in consultation with the
recommender (see next item). If the recommender will not be the
thesis adviser, please say so in the research proposal, with an
indication of plans to date towards the identification of the thesis adviser.
* One letter of recommendation from a faculty member, tutor or
teaching fellow. You may direct the recommender to her/himself send
the letter to the Warren Center by the deadline, or collect the
letter yourself for submission along with the rest of the
application. If the latter, the letter should be in a sealed
envelope, signed by the recommender across the seal.
* An official grade transcript (through the fall semester) sent to
the Warren Center.
Again, applications and supporting materials are due at the Warren
Center, Emerson Hall 400, on Monday, March 12, 2007.
Applicants will be notified of the Center's decisions in April. Note
that you must inform the Warren Center immediately in the unlikely
event that you receive an award for the same or similar research
from another source.
Successful applicants will receive the total stipend in May. Each
fellowship winner is required to submit in the fall a brief report
of his or her summer's research and to give a copy of the completed
thesis to the Center.
Thomas A. Lewis
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Committee on the Study of Religion and the Divinity School
Harvard University
Barker Center 409
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone - 617.495.2085
fax - 617.496.5798