Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

CSW offers an array of distinct award, grant, and fellowship opportunities to UCLA graduate students working on research related to the Center’s mission areas.  The keystone is the CSW Irving and Jean Stone Fellowship Program.  Funded and launched in AY 08-09, this program provides a year of recruitment funding for an incoming Women’s Studies graduate student and four dissertation year fellowships to students from any discipline whose research focuses on CSW mission areas.  CSW also sponsors a number of other dissertation and research awards, as well as a competitive travel grant program for graduate student research and conference trips that disburses funds twice a year. 

DISSERTATION AND GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

The Center for the Study of Women/Graduate Division Irving and Jean Stone Dissertation Year Fellowships are awarded to exceptionally promising doctoral students whose dissertation topic pertains to gender, sexuality and/or women’s issues.

The Jean Stone Dissertation Research Fellowship supports a UCLA doctoral candidate engaged in research on women and/or gender. 

The Paula Stone Research Fellowship supports promising research by a J.D., LL.M., S.J.D., or PhD candidate at UCLA, focused on women and the law with preference given to research on women in the criminal/legal justice system.

The Constance Coiner Graduate Fellowship honors a UCLA student enrolled in a Ph.D. program engaged in research focusing on feminist and working-class issues and demonstrates excellence in teaching and a commitment to teaching as activism. 

Travel Grants, offered twice a year in spring and fall, provide graduate students with funds for research and conference travel

DISSERTATION AWARDS

The Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation Award recognizes distinction in a completed UCLA Ph.D. dissertation on women and/or gender using historical materials and methods. 

The George Eliot Dissertation Award recognizes distinction in a completed UCLA Ph.D. dissertation on women and/or gender using a historical perspective in either literature or the arts. 

The Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., Award recognizes a publishable research report, thesis, dissertation, or published article by a UCLA graduate student relating to women and health or women in health-related sciences.