Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

Amount

One $3000 fellowship.

Criteria

Student must be registered and enrolled in a J.D., LL.M., S.J.D., or PhD program at UCLA, must be engaged in research focusing on women and the law with preference given to research on women in the criminal/legal justice system.  Applicants must be pursuing independent research for publication including a law review article or other type of academic article or a doctoral dissertation.

To apply

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

Three copies of each:

• Paula Stone Research Fellowship Cover Sheet
• Project Abstract (3-5 pages) (i.e. dissertation, research article, etc.)
• 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

DEADLINE

5:30 PM Thursday, April 8, 2010

Jennifer Lynne Musto

Jennifer Lynne Musto is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Women’s Studies. Her dissertation project, “Institutionalizing Protection, Professionalizing Victim Management: Explorations of Multi-Professional Anti-Trafficking Work in the Netherlands,” charts and takes theoretical stock of Dutch efforts to protect trafficked persons and investigates whether such protective interventions have helped to empower trafficked persons in general and illegal migrants in particular.

Courtney Denine Marshall

Courtney Marshall is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at UCLA with a concentration in Women's Studies. Her dissertation, entitled "Law, Literature, and the Black Female Subject," traces the theoretical connections between critical race studies and Black feminist literary criticism. Her related interests include queer theory and critical prison studies.

Emily Carman

Emily Carman is a PhD Candidate in the Cinema and Media Studies program in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA. Her dissertation project is tentatively titled “Independent Stardoms: Female Film Star Labor, Agency, and the Studio System in the 1930s.”

Azza Basarudin

Azza Basarudin is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Women’s Studies at UCLA, where she is working on a comparative study of the cultural meaning of Islam in Muslim women’s lives and experiences in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Her other interest includes postcolonial and feminist theory; indigenous feminisms; nationalism and exile; sexuality; and human rights in Islam.