Overview

Religious commitments and ethical ideals can be found in every time and place. Newcombe Fellows are late-stage Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences whose research in some way attends to those commitments and ideals and seeks to understand the communities, social practices, and political arrangements that embody them. The Newcombe Fellowship has supported more than 1,300 doctoral candidates with essential time and resources to complete their writing. Newcombe Fellows have gone on to be noted faculty at domestic and foreign institutions, leaders in their fields of study, Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur Fellows, and more.

Eligibility:

Applicants must:

• Be candidates for Ph.D. degrees in any field of study in the humanities and social sciences at accredited graduate schools in the U.S. (candidates working on D.min., law, Psy.D., Ed.D., and other professional degrees are not eligible)
• Have completed all pre-dissertation requirements by the application deadline, including approval of the dissertation proposal
• Be in the writing stage of the dissertation (usually, this means that fieldwork or other research is complete and writing has begun by the time of the award)
• Expect to complete the dissertation between April 1, 2025 and August 21, 2026
• Have never held a similar national award for the final year of dissertation writing (ex: AAUW, Ford, NAEd/Spencer, Mellon/ACLS, Mellon-CES)
• Be in a humanities or social sciences department, writing on topics where ethical or religious values are a central concern

Award

Newcombe Fellows receive $31,000 for 12 months of full-time dissertation writing.

Application Status

Closed (will open in Fall 2024)

National Deadline

TBA

Learn more about the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship