Writing Successful Grant and Fellowship Applications (Humanities and Social Sciences Focus)
Grant and Fellowship Workshops
Pauline Lewis, Fulbright U.S. Fellowship Recipient, Graduate Writing Center Consultant
This workshop will first briefly review funding opportunities for graduate students in humanities, social sciences, and related fields. The workshop will then focus on strategies for writing effective applications for grants and fellowships to support graduate study and research, especially for students seeking doctorates and research MAs. The workshop will also cover tips for organizing the application process. (Approx. 36 mins. Recorded in 2014.)
Click here for presentation slides: Writing Successful Grant and Fellowship Applications in the Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop Slides.pdf
Pauline Lewis completed a PhD in History at UCLA in 2018. Her research focuses on the history of technology in the modern Middle East, and her dissertation explored the social and cultural implications of telegraphy in late Ottoman Empire society. Before graduate school, Pauline received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Egypt and worked as a program officer for the National Democratic Institute.
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Presenter: Pauline Lewis completed a PhD in Near Eastern History at UCLA in 2018. She focuses on the history of the Ottoman Empire during the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She earned her BA in History and Arabic Studies at the University of Michigan, and after graduating she received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Egypt. She has received a Graduate Student Fieldwork Fellowship from the UCLA International Institute, as well as a FLAS Turkish fellowship.