UMD Students Awarded Mary Savage Snouffer Disseratation Fellowships
June 07, 2011
Three ARHU students win fellowship funding towards their dissertation completion.
The Mary S. Snouffer Scholarship Fund supports qualified students pursuing the doctorate within any discipline in the humanities, including the study of language, literature, culture, philosophy, history or the arts. Preference is given to students in English; though scholarships can be awarded to students in other disciplines within the humanities. This year one Ph.D. candidate from Women’s Studies and two Ph.D. candidates from English were awarded fellowships. Julie Enszer is a Ph. D. candidate in Women’s Studies. Her thesis is titled, “The Whole Naked Truth of our Lives: Lesbian Print Culture in the United States from 1969-1989.” Christopher Michael Brown is a Ph. D. candidate in English. His thesis is titled, “The Incommensurability of Justice: Law and the African American Literary Tradition.” Jasmine Lellock is a Ph. D. candidate in English. Her thesis is titled, “Staged Magicians in Early English Drama.” The fellowship carries a 9.5 month stipend of $20,000 for the academic year. The Graduate School will cover the tuition remission up to ten credits per semester for each fellowship recipient. An important consideration in awarding the fellowship is that the winners have made substantial progress on their dissertation and are likely to complete it by the end of the next school year.