Undergraduate Fellowship Program
The HRC Undergraduate Fellowship is awarded to undergraduates who have demonstrated strong potential within the humanities. The fellowship program allows recipients to work closely with scholars both within and outside of the Rice community, as well as to interact with Rice alumni who have achieved success in non-academic careers after receiving undergraduate Humanities degrees.
The HRC is pleased to announce the 2009-10 HRC Undergraduate Fellows .
Calls for applications for academic year 2010-11 will be released in Spring 2010.
Click here to see last year's calls, along with fellowship details.
Big Questions & Future Directions in the Humanities
The HRC organizes this series on behalf of its fellowship recipients. It features humanities scholars who are shaping the latest approaches to scholarship in their fields, non-academic professionals with backgrounds in the arts and humanities, as well as Rice humanities graduate students who are completing their PhDs. All Rice undergraduates are invited to attend to discover the wide range of career options and research opportunities available to students in the humanities.
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Four dissertation-writing fellows address the undergraduate fellows and guests.2009-10 Fellowship Recipients
Darya Anichkova (senior, economics, French studies and political science), David Downing (senior, ancient Mediterranean civilizations), Mary Draper (senior, history), Allison Elliott (senior, economics), Elizabeth Ericson (senior, history), Eleanor Grebowski (sophomore, art history), Kelin Herrington (junior, history and art history), Brian Hunt (senior, English and psychology), Roxy Loza (senior, English and psychology), Stuart Nelson (junior, religious studies and cognitive sciences), Casey O’Grady (junior, philosophy), Lorena Villarreal (senior, Hispanic studies and kinesiology), Jocelyn Asa Wright (junior, history and French studies) and Laura Zhang (sophomore, French studies and mathematics)
Calls for Applications for Academic Year 2009-10 (closed)
Stipend: $1000
Course credit: 1 per semester for 2 semesters
Applications due: March 23, 2009 (Monday)
Click to download the calls for any of the following research opportunities. When submitting your application, please indicate (in rank order) all the projects which you are interested in and qualified for. Please note that while research projects are scheduled for one semester, fellowship recipients should expect to be in residence at Rice and to participate in HRC programs over the entire academic year.
Fall 2009
- Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology , with Melinda Fagan, assistant professor of philosophy
- The Aerial Theater: Balloons and the Public in Pre-Revolutionary France , with Mi Gyung Kim, visiting associate professor of history from North Carolina State University
- George Washington's Eye: Architecture, Landscape, and Art at Mount Vernon , with Joseph Manca, professor of art history
- Visualizing Conversion in Refuges for Reformed Prostitutes and Cathecumeni in Italy, 1500-1650 , with Diana Bullen Presciutti, postdoctoral fellow in art history (also available Spring 2010)
- The Foreign Policy of the Avant-Garde , with Maria Elena Versari, visiting assistant professor from Università di Messina, Italy
- Allegory and Computation, with Matthew Wilkens, postdoctoral fellow in English
Spring 2010
- Gymnazein: The Origin and Dissemination of Athletic Nudity in Ancient Greece , with Paul Christesen, visiting associate professor of classical studies from Dartmouth College
- Potential Christians and Hereditary Heathens: Religion and Race in Early America, 1550-1800 , with Rebecca Goetz, assistant professor of history
- Mother of the World: Josephine Baker & the Rainbow Tribe , with Matthew Guterl, visiting associate professor of history from Indiana University, Bloomington
- Comparing Religions: A Textbook Initiation , with Jeffrey J. Kripal, professor of religious studies
The fellowship program is made possible through the generous support of M-Lou Belton , John Paul Beltran ’76, Jerry and Nanette Finger, Nancy Mauney Mafrige ’59 and Don Mafrige, Sandra Gordon Robbins ’59, Charles Szalkowski ’70, and Michele Field Vobach ’85 and Stephen F. Vobach '85. The HRC especially wishes to thank Nancy Packer Carlson ’80 and Clint Carlson for an endowed gift that will sustain the program into the future.
