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Emory Healthcare/Emory University 2024-2025 Dissertation Fellowship for Pre-Doctoral Scholars - James Weldon Johnson Institute in Emory University, Georgia

The James Weldon Johnson Institute of Emory University invites applications for its Visiting Fellows Program. Supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Visiting Fellows Program provides two completion fellowships for Ph.D. candidates in their final year of graduate school. We welcome applications from scholars in the humanities. We are interested in research projects across the spectrum of the humanities that examine the origins, evolution, impact and legacy of race, difference, and the modern quest for civil and human rights. We also support research projects that examine race and ethnicity and its points of intersection with other identities and movements addressing differences along gender, class, religious, or sexual lines.

All fellows will be required to make a presentation of their work (presentation varies by rank). All Visiting Fellows will be in residence at Emory’s Johnson Institute for the academic year 2024-2025.

Award

  • $30,000 stipend

  • $3,000 additional allotment for research and conference travel expenses

  • Period of Residency: one academic year

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