Summer Dissertation Writing Funds are awarded only once in your PhD
career. The current award is an amount of up to $4,000. Criteria for
requesting available funds are that the student must be ABD, be
actively writing their dissertations, and not
have received the funds previously.
The request should include:
1) Your name, student ID, Dissertation Title and a statement that you
have not received these funds previously.
2) A description (1 page) of your dissertation if you do not have a
Graduate School approved thesis proposal on file.
3) A description detailing what you will undertake over the summer (up
to 1 page). Be as specific as possible about the use of archives,
libraries, interviews, writing schedule, etc.
4) A letter from your adviser confirming that you have completed
enough research to be actively writing substantive portions of the
dissertation.
Submit your request to Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by the 12:00pm NOON
on April 11, 2014 deadline. You may expect a response to your request
by early May.
