WOMEN'S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER

GRADUATE STUDENT AWARDS

 

 

 

 

The Hyde Dissertation Research Award for
Graduate Students

The Women's Studies Research Center, with the generosity of Professor Janet S. Hyde, offers a competitive award to support social science dissertation research on women/women's studies related work. Faculty members may nominate a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student who meets the criteria listed below. Graduate students may nominate themselves and have two letters of support sent to the Women's Studies Research Center.

Deadline: April 15.

Eligibility: 1) Ph.D. students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who have been admitted to candidacy. A Women's Studies Ph.D. minor is not necessary but encouraged.
2) Dissertation topic relevant to women and in an area of social science (e.g., psychology, economics, history, geography, sociology, political science)

Application: Please include in the application package and send to the Women's Studies Research Center: 1) Student's CV; 2) Dissertation proposal (between 6-8 pages only in 12 point font); 3) Transcript; 4) One page budget and justification; 5) Two faculty letters of support; 6) Letter of (self-) nomination (if nominated by faculty, this can count as one of the two faculty letters of support)

Selection: Selection to be made on the basis of excellence in academic work as evident in transcript, papers etc.
Selections will be made by an ad hoc committee.

Award: Maximum award is $1,000 to be used for some aspect of Ph.D research.

The Hyde Dissertation Research Award is named after Janet Hyde, who is a Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Hyde has made this award possible through royalties from her book Half the Human Experience: The Psychology of Women.

For more information contact the Women's Studies Research Center at 608-263-2053 or wsrc@mailplus.wisc.edu