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The Graduate School has announced that more than $400,000 in research grants and dissertation writing fellowships to graduate students were awarded during the 2024-25 academic year.

Dissertation Completion Fellowships were awarded to select students in the Colleges of Social and Behavioral Science, Humanities and Fine Arts, and Education to support summer dissertation writing. In addition to a summer stipend, Dissertation Completion Fellows participate in structured writing support over the summer to help advance their writing goals. The Graduate School funded 30 Summer Dissertation Completion Fellowships and SBS funded an additional three students.

“Providing a concentrated period of summer support with no other duties can be a game changer in helping students make progress and reach their final goal,” says Jacqueline Urla, dean of the Graduate School, who envisions the Dissertation Completion Fellowship as a critical tool to help students complete their dissertation.

The Graduate School also awarded Predissertation, Fieldwork, Rapid Research, and MFA Thesis grants, which provide funding for students to advance their doctoral or MFA thesis work. Supported projects include evaluating different models of pedestrian safety measures, examining changes in migration patterns for shorebirds, testing wastewater to measure the prevalence of communicable disease in a community and understanding how art can serve as a form of cultural justice.

More information about Dissertation Completion Fellowships, research grants and other funding opportunities offered by the Graduate School can be found here.
 

2025 Dissertation Completion Fellows

• Elif Armenti, Political Science
• Dana Altshuler, Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
• Eva Alvarez Vazquez, Spanish and Portuguese - Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• Mariam Asatryan, Linguistics
• Cagla Ay, Anthropology
• Jaeye Baek, Political Science
• Debadatta Chakraborty, Sociology
• Eunjin Cho, Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
• Gennifer Dorgan, Comparative Literature
• Alessa Farinella, Linguistics
• Amanda Fuchs, Anthropology
• Ester Gonzalez Martin, German - Language, Literature and Culture
• Firdaus Gupte, Philosophy
• Yuhwa Hong, Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
• Anthony Huaqui, Sociology
• Niyanthini Kadirgamar, International Education / EPRA
• Yena Kang, Communication
• Nicole le Roux, Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
• Yokaira Lopez-Tifa, Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
• Kathleen Mahoney, Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
• Nicole O'Connell, English
• Adelola Ojutiku, Economics
• Jaclyn Ordway, English
• Rajib Rahman, Resource Economics
• Jia Ren, Linguistics
• Sofiya Shreyer, Anthropology
• Guanhua Tan, History
• Sayonara Tomoum, Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
• Maria Camila Vera Arias, Spanish & Portuguese Studies
• Choon Hee Woo, Sociology
• Yan Wu, Comparative Literature/Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• Soo oak Yoo, Communication
• Lizhen Zhao, Communication 

2024-25 Graduate School Grant Recipients

• Emefa Adawudu, Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
• Adeyemi Adebayo, Studio Art
• Estefany Argueta Herrera, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
• Ozge Bakay, Linguistics
• Mirriam Banda, Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
• Cai Gabrielle Barias, History
• Rozy Bathrick, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
• Akash Bhatt, Economics
• Chiung-Yu Chang, Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Sharonee Dasgupta, Anthropology
• Pedro Eler  De Carvalho Eiras, Theater
• Caroline DeVane, Anthropology
• Divya Dubey, Molecular & Cellular Biology
• Tori Ford, Plant Biology
• Shivranjani Gandhi, Public Health & Health Sciences
• Nancy Garcia, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
• Laura Haynes, Anthropology
• Nanak Hikmatullah, Teacher Education & Curriculum Studies
• Kiran Jandu, Studio Art
• Bo Kim, Studio Art
• Maya Kuchiyak, MFA for Poets & Writers
• Mustafa Erdem Kusdil, Political Science
• Carissa Lange, Environmental Health Sciences
• Yue (Bonnie) Liang, Communication
• Ada Lopez Gonzalez, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
• Miranda Lutyens, English
• Michael Medeiros, Studio Art
• Esther Moraes, Sociology
• Barbara Mottey, Environmental Health Sciences
• Raphael Nnachi, Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Tolu Oke, Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Lara Sabra, Anthropology
• Isayra Sanchez-Amaro, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
• Geraldine Santoso, Political Science
• Rose Schwietz, Theater
• Carla Spellerberg, Linguistics
• Serina Suzuki, Biology/ Organismic & Evolutionary Biology
• Abigail Thomsen, Anthropology
• Paul Michael Thomson, W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies
• Volha Verbilovich, Anthropology
• Rui Wang, Resource Economics
• Nasira Watts, MFA for Poets & Writers
• Maria Wigati, Nutrition
• Noah Williams, Plant Biology
• Fanqi Xu, History
• Yu-Min (Thomas) Yang, Civil & Environmental Engineering