Application Documents:

1. Proposal – No more than 3 pages, double-spaced, with standard fonts and margins. This summary should be explicit about your research questions, research methods, and the connections to gender and sexuality studies (including, if relevant, connections to sexual orientation and health in social context). Please provide details about the data you will be collecting or analyzing (for example, how many interviews, which databases or archives, which ethnographic sites, etc.). Please also indicate how this project fits within your broader program of research (including whether it is related to your dissertation or other required research for your program).
2. Budget & Justification – Please list your research expenses in order of priority to you and provide a dollar amount for each research expense. Possible research expenses include travel to conduct research, necessary equipment to conduct research or analyze data (such as digital recorders and analytical software not available through the University), research supplies, and incentives paid to research participants. Funds may not be used for basic living expenses (except when traveling to conduct research) or for travel to conferences. NOTE: Though this award will be paid out as a taxable stipend, it is important to the committee that it be used to further student research.
3. Letter of Recommendation – Please request a letter of recommendation from your advisor or dissertation chair. They will receive an automated message of the request when this form is submitted, to which they can attach their letter.