Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

Amount

One $1,000 award.

Criteria

The student must submit a completed UCLA PhD dissertation on women and/or gender which makes use of historical materials and methods. If planning to file a doctoral dissertation by June 1, 2009, applicant is eligible pending verification of filing status.

To apply

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

Two copies of each:

• Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation Award Cover Sheet
• Dissertation Abstract (1 page)
• Completed Dissertation (double sided is acceptable)
• Curriculum Vitae
• Transcript (unofficial copy is acceptable)

One copy of:

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

Deadline

5:30 PM
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Elizabeth Morgan

Elizabeth Morgan received her Ph.D. in the Department of Musicology with a dissertation entitled “The Virtuous Virtuosa: Women at the Pianoforte in England, 1780–1820.” She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano performance from The Juilliard School.

Deirdre Cooper Owens

Deirdre Cooper Owens received her PhD in the Department of History at UCLA in May of 2008. She will be housed as a 2008-09 Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia this fall. The following year, Deirdre will join the faculty of the University of Mississippi as an Assistant Professor of History. Her dissertation, “'Courageous Negro Servitors' and Laboring Irish Bodies: An Examination of Antebellum-Era Modern American Gynecology” offers a rare glimpse into the lives of enslaved and poor Irish-immigrant women whose bodies were used to help pioneer modern gynecology.

Kristen Hatch

Kristen Hatch received her PhD in the Cinema and Media Studies program in the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA in the fall of 2006. She will soon take a position as Assistant Professor in the Film and Media Studies department at UC Irvine. Her dissertation is entitled “Playing Innocent: Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood, 1850–1939.”

Jennifer Jung-Kim

Jennifer Jung-Kim received her PhD in the Korean History program at UCLA in 2005. Her dissertation, entitled “Gender and Modernity in Colonial Korea,” examines the centrality of gender identities to the modernization project in Korea during the period of Japanese rule from 1910 to 1945.

The Correspondence Between Public and Private: Women, Kinship, and Burgertum in Early Nineteenth-Century Hamburg

Les Marseillaises: Women and Political Change During the French Revolution, 1789-1794

‘The Pistol Virgin:’ Feminism, Sexuality, and Honor in Belle Epoque France

Respectable Partisans: African American Women in Electoral Politics, 1877 to 1936

Sex-Work, Stigma and Violence in the 'New' South Africa: An Ethnographic Study of Sex for Money Exchange in Gauteng Province