Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

Amount

One $3000 fellowship.

Criteria

Student must be registered and enrolled in a doctorate program at UCLA, must be engaged in research on women and/or gender, and must have advanced to candidacy by one month before award deadline. Students who have 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:

• Jean Stone Dissertation Research Fellowship Cover Sheet
• Dissertation Abstract (3-5 pages)
• Budget Statement (describing how the funds will be used)
• Curriculum Vitae
• Transcripts (unofficial copy is acceptable)

One copy of:

• Letters of recommendation from two faculty members (one of which must be
  from the candidate's chair). The letters should be sealed in an envelope with the
  recommender’s signature across the back flap.

Deadline

5:30 PM
Thursday, April 8, 2010

Katie Oliviero

Kathryn E. (Katie) Oliviero is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Women’s Studies. Her dissertation explores how sensationalism, performance, and affect are used by twenty-first century conservative movements to compose citizenship, intimacy, life, and nation as vulnerable. Interested in how aesthetics are deployed to gain political and emotional purchase, she examines the performance iconographies of organized opposition to liberal immigration, queer, and reproductive justice legislation, as articulated by such groups as the Minutemen, the Yes on Proposition 8 coalition, and the Genocide Awareness Project, an anti-abortion group. She hopes her analysis of conservative activist repertoires will help assess and produce more progressive artistic and political responses.

Karina Marie Ash

Karina Marie Ash is a PhD candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages at UCLA and is pursuing a concentration in Women’s Studies. Her dissertation argues that the medieval phenomenon wherein notable numbers of women rejected their roles as wives and mothers in order to devote themselves to a religious ideal of celibacy created social tensions that are expressed in literary discourses on female sanctity and wifehood in medieval German literature. These discourses contributed to the construction and promotion of gendered norms for women but have been obscured by edited texts that often reflect the cultural bias of nineteenth-century male editors who privileged certain manuscript versions of the texts over other versions.

Stephanie
Vander Wel

Stephanie Vander Wel is a PhD candidate in the Department of Musicology at UCLA. Her work focuses on identity politics in music, in particular country music’s representations of gender, class, and race. She is currently completing her dissertation, “‘I Am a Honky-Tonk Girl’: Country Music, Gender, and Migration.”

Rene Almeling

A doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at UCLA, Almeling is completing research on her dissertation, “Selling Genes, Selling Gender: A Comparison of Egg and Sperm Donation.”