All Applications due January 19, 2014

The Council for European Studies (CES) invites eligible graduate students to apply for the 2014 Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships in European Studies. Each fellowship includes a $25,000 stipend, paid in six (6) bi-monthly installments over the course of the fellowship year, as well as assistance in securing reimbursements or waivers in eligible health insurance and candidacy fees.

Winners of the Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships will also be expected to participate in a number of professional development activities organized by the Council for European Studies for the benefit of its fellows and designed to support early career development. These activities include: publishing in Perspectives on Europe, a semi-annual journal of the Council for European studies; presenting at the International Conference of Europeanists, hosted by the Council for European Studies; and participating in several digital and in-person career development seminars and/or workshops.

Eligibility:

• Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowships are intended to facilitate the timely completion of the doctoral degree by late-stage graduate students focuses on topics in European Studies.
• To be eligible an applicant must: be ABD (year 5 and above); be a US citizen or green card holder; be enrolled at a higher education institution in the U.S. that is a member of the Council for European Studies Academic Consortium; can have no more than one full year of dissertation work remaining at the start of the fellowship year as certified by his or her dissertation advisor.
• The applicant must also have exhausted the dissertation completion funding normally provided by his or her academic department or university, and he or she must be working on a topic within or substantially overlapping European Studies.

Deadlines: Applications are due (along with all supporting materials) on or before January 19, 2014.

For more information, visit: http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/grants-and-awards/dissertation-completion

Contact:
Ms. Corey Fabian Borenstein (ces@columbia.edu)
Program Manager
Council for European Studies | Columbia University
420 West 118th Street, MC 3307
New York, NY 10027
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