Carleton-funded Fellowships Information Session 2021
Carleton-funded Fellowships Information Session 2021

A brief video describing Carleton-funded fellowships and how to apply for them.

  01/01/2021  
 Marynel Ryan Van Zee
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  • Transcript Introduction Welcome! This brief information session is about Carleton-funded fellowships from the Office of Student Fellowships that are available to you for projects you want to purse over Summer or Winter Break. My name is Marynel Ryan Van Zee and I’m the Director of Student Fellowships at Carleton. I am working remotely this year, so I’ve replaced our usual in-person meeting with this short video. I want to emphasize right at the start that the opportunities I am going to describe are not the only ones available to you – you can find out about internships of all kinds through the Career Center. The Social Justice Internships program sponsored by the Chaplain’s Office is for summer opportunities with organizations working on a variety of social justice issues. The Jonathan Paradise Israel Experience is offered by Judaic Studies and funds a summer in Israel. The Center for Community and Civic Engagement has a number of summer positions available. And the Center for Global and Regional Studies offers a junior research fellowship. Finally, if you are looking for support for STEM research over the summer, be sure to check out this page for funding information. There are also are different pots of money around campus and you should check with your advisor or professors if you are interested in doing research with them, in your discipline, or in a lab, etc. There are many ways you can get money to support the activities you want to pursue! What is a fellowship? If you are wondering what a fellowship is, we have some explanations here – but the short answer is that a fellowship supports you in pursuing something you want to do. That something can be research, a creative project, or just having an experience that will enrich your education or build your skills and capacities for the future. The Office of Student Fellowships has recently funded Carls to do things as diverse as build a sculpture that now sits behind Boliou, work in a Mexican printmaking studio, spend a week in a Greek monastery, assist with a conservation project in Malaysian Borneo, create a guide to the Twin Cities for Carls, and explore Hmong traditional medicine. We also funded comps research on ecotourism in Costa Rica, immigrant and refugee experiences in France, collective memory of the Holocaust across Europe and China, and sacred landscapes in the New Jersey suburbs. In addition, we supported internships in Chinese maritime history and at a mobile dental clinic in Thailand. In other words, the things you can do with fellowship funding are many. You can get an idea of what people have done with fellowships by reviewing the Award Recipients lists posted here. We have multiple fellowships named after donors and it is important to us to express our gratitude for their generosity by sharing some information about them and why they funded a fellowship. For the purposes of your fellowship application, though, what we’ve tried to do on the site is group them as much as possible into the two categories of research or experiential (but even then, there is overlap). Our goal is to have a structure through which you apply to do what you want to do, and we sort out where the money will come from. Most of these use common application and recommendation forms so that we can do that – some do have their own individual forms. All fellowship applications require a proposal and a budget. For all fellowships, letters of recommendation are required; you give us your recommenders’ names and we send the requests to them after you have submitted your application. In some cases you must use the money over a summer break, in some cases, you may use it during winter break or over the course of a year. Some must be used internationally. Some can be used in the US and even just here at Carleton. Some focus on particular parts of the world – the Chang-Lan Fellowship focuses on China, and the Roy Grow Fellowship is for Asia more generally. Some have preferred areas, such as the Richard Salisbury for work on Africa or Latin America. The Larson International and Kelley International are for all international locations, and the Independent Research and Class of 1963 Fellowships can be used anywhere in the world. All of these fellowships use the same application. Some other fellowships have specific purposes or focus and therefore have their own applications. The Hanson Fellowship in Ethics is for research projects with a focus on ethics (from either a philosophical or practical perspective). The Nancy Wilkie Fellowship is for participation in an archaeological field school. And the Donelson Fellowship is for a distinctive experience that can even be somewhat whimsical – rather than saying anything more about that, I’ll encourage you to look at the fellowship page. Most fellowships are for individual applications, but some can be applied for jointly. To see what is available to you based on class year, you can look here. Applications this year are due Tuesday, March 30, 2021, at 5pm. On the site, you’ll find a lot of information about the specific fellowships I’ve mentioned, and you’ll also find some information to help you as you prepare an application. We have information on how to create a successful proposal here. We have tips on creating a budget here. Sample successful applications are linked from here – you’ll use your Carleton login to access those. I hope this brief introduction has piqued your interest in applying for a fellowship. I am always available to help at any point in the process – from brainstorming what you might like to apply for, to figuring out your budget, to providing feedback on your drafted application materials. You can find a link to my appointment calendar here; I hold office hours regularly and would love to chat with you! Thanks for viewing the Carleton-funded fellowships information session for 2021!
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