Native American Studies Department
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Charles Eastman Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
Dissertation Fellowship for Underrepresented Minority Scholars
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Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman) (Santee Sioux), Dartmouth class of 1887, one of the most influential American Indian leaders of his time
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The goal of the Cesar Chavez/Charles A. Eastman/Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowships is to promote student and faculty diversity at Dartmouth, and throughout higher education, by supporting completion of the doctorate by underrepresented minority scholars (including African-American, Latina/o, and Native American scholars) and other graduate scholars with a demonstrated commitment and ability to advance educational diversity.
The Fellowships support graduate scholars for a year-long residency at Dartmouth beginning September 1, 2006. They offer an opportunity for scholars who plan a career in higher education and have completed all other Ph.D. requirements to finish the dissertation with access to the outstanding libraries, computing facilities and faculty of Dartmouth College. In addition, Fellows will participate in classroom activities with scholars who are dedicated to undergraduate teaching. Fellows may be pursuing the Ph.D. degree in any discipline or area taught in the Dartmouth undergraduate Arts and Sciences curriculum. Each Fellow will be affiliated with a department or program at the College.
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Three Fellowships will be awarded; each provides a stipend of $25,000, office space, library privileges, and a $2,500 research assistance fund. Fellows are expected to complete the dissertation during the tenure of the Fellowship and may have the opportunity to participate in teaching, either as a primary instructor or as part of a team.
Applicants will be selected on the basis of: academic achievement and promise; membership in a racial or ethnic group that is currently underrepresented among faculty in the applicant's academic field; demonstrated commitment to increasing opportunities for underrepresented minorities and increasing cross-racial understanding; and potential for serving as an advocate and mentor for minority undergraduate and graduate students.
For further information and application materials contact: Office of Graduate Studies, Dartmouth College 6062 Wentworth Hall, Room 304, Hanover, NH 03755-3526. Telephone (603) 646-6578.
Further details are available at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradstdy/funding/fellowships/
Application Deadline: February 1, 2006
Award Announcement: April 1, 2006
Dartmouth College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action organization. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
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Dartmouth's Eastman Fellow Alumni:
- Christopher Jocks (Mohawk) was Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College from 1990-2002. He is now doing consulting work in Colorado.
- Jo Ann Woodsum (Cahuilla), University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Kevin Connelly (Onondaga), Ph.D. in linguistics from Cornell University.
- Dennis (Dan) Runnels (Colville), now Visiting Instructor of Spanish and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College.
- Peggy J. Ackerberg (Citizen Potawatomi), from Harvard's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
- Darren J. Ranco (Penobscot), completed his B.A. in Anthropology at Dartmoth College, 1993, his MS in Environmental Law at Vermont Law School in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 2000. He is now on the faculty at Dartmouth in our Native Studies Program and the Environmental Studies Program
- Joseph P. Gone (Gros Ventre), received his Ph.D. from the Clinical and Community Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation, approved in 2000, was "Affects and Its Disorders Among the Lakota Sioux." He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Department of Psychology.
- Vera Palmer (Tuscarora/Iroquois), was our Eastman fellow for 2001-2002. She worked on her dissertation on the Iroquois Condolence ceremonies. Vera has remained at Dartmouth as visiting instructor. She is teaching Contemporary Native American Poetry and an introductory course in Native American Studies.
- Dian Million (Tanana Athabascan), came to Dartmouth from the University of California, Berkeley where she was doing a Ph.D. in Native American and Ethnic Studies. Her dissertation title is "Telling Secrets: Politics, Gender and Race in the Production of Aboriginal Sovereignty." Dian is now a faculty member at the University of Washington.
- Audra Simpson (Mohawk), completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology from McGill University. She was the Charles Eastman Fellow from 2002-03. Audra is now at Cornell University where she was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship.
- Angelica Lawson (Northern Arapaho), was the Fellow in Residence for the 2003-2004 academic year. Angelica has completed her degree at the University of Arizona, Tucson. The title of her dissertation is: "Resistance and Resilience in the Work of Four Native American Authors." Ms. Lawson was also a visiting instructor at Dartmouth, and taught a course in NAS for the Fall, 2003 term: "American Indians on Film and Television." She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Montana, Missoula.
- Randy Akee (Native Hawaiian), is the Charles Eastman Fellow for 2004-05. He comes from Harvard University, where he is enrolled in the doctoral program on Political Economy and Government. He will be working on his dissertation, "Three Essays in Economic Development of Indigenous Peoples."
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For further information and application materials, please contact:
Office of Graduate Students Dartmouth College
6062 Wentworth Room 305
Hanover, NH 03755-3526
Phone: (603) 646-2107
Fax: (603) 646-3488
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