Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

Amount

One $1,500 fellowship.

Criteria

The student must be enrolled in a PhD program at UCLA and be in engaged in research focusing on feminist and working-class issues, must demonstrate excellence in teaching and a commitment to teaching as activism, and must have advanced to candidacy by one month prior to award deadline. Students who advanced to candidacy after the deadline are not eligible.

To apply

The application must contain the following materials in hard copy only:

Three copies of each:

• Constance Coiner Graduate Fellowship Cover Sheet
• Personal Essay (see Cover Sheet for essay guidelines)
• Curriculum Vitae

One copy of:

• Letters of recommendation from faculty members (one letter for academic/teaching work,
  and one letter for community work). The letters should be sealed in an envelope
  with the recommender’s signature across the back flap.

Deadline

5:30 PM
Thursday, February 11, 2010

Darby Saxbe

Darby Saxbe will receive her Ph.D. in the Department of Psychology in June 2009. Her research focuses on stress physiology, health, and well-being within the context of close relationships and families. Her primary research advisor is Rena Repetti and her research home base has been UCLA’s Center for the Everyday Lives of Families (CELF). Passionate about developing research methodologies that report on everyday life “from the ground,” and on conducting research that illuminates pathways between psychosocial functioning and physical health outcomes, with an emphasis on understanding women’s health from a feminist perspective, she is a predoctoral clinical intern with the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Administration Health Services. She hopes to pursue an academic career that integrates research, teaching, mentorship, and clinical work, and to remain engaged in political and community issues relevant to gender, class, and health.

Marcus Desmond Harmon

Marcus Desmond Harmon is a PhD candidate in the Department of Musicology at UCLA. His dissertation, "In a Melancholic Country: Identity, Loss, and Mourning at the Borders of Country Music," explores depictions of grieving, loss, and nostalgia in the work of four contemporary country music artists. His research interests include American popular music, working-class cultures, psychoanalysis, and LGBT studies. As a teacher, Marcus is particularly interested in improving access to education for underrepresented students.

Khanum Shaikh

Khanum Shaikh recently received her PhD from the Department of Women’s Studies at UCLA. In her dissertation, entitled “Religious Reconfigurations: The Growing Participation of Urban Pakistani Women in Religious-Based Movements,” she focuses on how a Muslim women’s organization, the Al-Huda Academy for Women, has grown in popularity, often by using cyberspace to generate transnational networks that promote a cultural and religious hegemony.

Jennifer Jung-Kim

Testimonial and Queer Youth Narratives: Toward an Epistemology of Recovery, Revenge, and Reparation