Internal fellowships are available to Brown University Graduate School funded dissertation-level doctoral students.  Fellowships may be awarded for either one semester or a full year. This fellowship is part of the five-to-six-year funding guaranteed by the Graduate School.  

Students apply in their third or fourth year for their fourth or fifth year. You and your dissertation committee must agree on a plan for your fellowship year. To that end, please see the required application materials below.

Students who are awarded fellowships are expected to devote themselves to research, scholarship, and the completion of their dissertations. Fellowship recipients are not allowed to hold other work appointments, either inside or outside the university.

If you are interested in applying and are currently in your third or fourth year in the program, submit the following to the Student Affairs Coordinator, Suzanne Brough, by March 10th. Documents 1-5 should be e-mailed as one attachment. The Graduate Affairs Committee will review the applications.

1. Personal statement describing how exactly the dissertation fellowship will be used, why it is crucial to your research, and why you need one semester or two to accomplish it.
2. One-page maximum abstract.
3. Up-to-date vitae
4. Unofficial transcript
5. Copy of your (draft) prospectus. Please note that a defended prospectus is no longer required; however, awardees must have defended their prospectus by mid-August or forfeit the award.
6. Letter of evaluation (not recommendation) from your advisor indicating the strengths and weaknesses of the proposed project and your ability to carry it out, preparedness to start the research and likelihood it will be completed within the proposed time frame.