Dear Concentrators:
Please see the announcement below regarding funding for thesis research, for
those among you who are juniors contemplating writing a thesis next year.
Best wishes,
Anne
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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 2008. More information appears below, and at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cwc/grantsundergradapp.html. Note that our
deadline is March 10th.
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 "Politics and Social Movements," and we imagine you might be interested
in presentations on topics such as Guts, Greyhounds, and Gandhi: Pauli
Murray's Civil Rights Movement, 1935-1973 on February 22nd. My best wishes
for the spring term.
Arthur Patton-Hock, Warren Center administrator
CHARLES WARREN CENTER FOR STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
SENIOR THESIS RESEARCH GRANT
SUMMER 2008
Each spring, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
awards roughly four summer research fellowships to Harvard College juniors
writing a senior thesis on any topic in American history. The award amount
is commensurate with the research budget, up to a maximum of $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 10th,
2008; 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 10, 2008.
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.
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