{"id":7958,"date":"2025-01-24T23:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T23:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/?page_id=7958"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:43:52","slug":"ph-d-dissertation-fellowships-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/apply\/ph-d-dissertation-fellowships-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, a center for advanced scholarship relating to the period from c. 1450 to c. 1850, offers fellowship competitions and research funds for USC Ph.D. students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>2026-2027 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships Competition<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Institute will offer up to two fellowships for the 2026-2027 academic year to Ph.D. candidates within the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences whose work relates to the period from c. 1450 to c. 1850. These fellowships will provide a stipend at the rate set by the USC graduate school.<\/p>\n<p>The fellowships are open to graduate students within the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, who will be ABD before August 1, 2026. Applicants should be in their third, fourth, fifth, or sixth year of their graduate program during the 2026-2027 academic year. Applicants may not be in year seven or beyond during the fellowship term.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants should submit a single pdf file with a research statement, not exceeding three single-spaced pages, and a c.v. to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:emsi@dornsife.usc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-link-type=\"email\">emsi@dornsife.usc.edu<\/a> by January 30, 2026. The research statement should include the dissertation title, the student date of entry into the graduate program, the date of the qualifying exams, and the expected date of degree completion.<\/p>\n<p>A letter of recommendation should be emailed separately\u00a0from the dissertation advisor to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:emsi@dornsife.usc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-link-type=\"email\">emsi@dornsife.usc.edu<\/a> by January 30, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"parent":1310,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7958","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships - USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/apply\/ph-d-dissertation-fellowships-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships - 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