Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowships

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The Graduate College offers Dissertation Completion Fellowships for up to two semesters and two sessions ($19,747 yearly, 2007–08 rates) awarded in open competition and on the basis of superior scholarly achievement to assist full-time doctoral students with the completion of their dissertations.

Eligibility:

Recipients must be full time doctoral candidates who can demonstrate at the time of application:

• Superior academic achievement
  
• Appointment of a doctoral dissertation committee and approval of the dissertation proposal by the committee
• Completion of all courses (excluding the dissertation) and program requirements
• Completion of all research tool requirements
• Completion of all qualifying or comprehensive examinations
• Completion of the university residency requirement
  

 

The 2008-2009 Dissertation Completion Fellowship Application Form can be downloaded here as a WORD document.

 

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2007–08 Dissertation Completion Fellowship recipients

The Graduate College is pleased to announce that four doctoral students were recently named recipients of Dissertation Completion Fellowships for 2007–08. The annual competition for the fellowships drew 16 applications.

The 2007–08 Dissertation Completion Fellowship recipients are:

Travis Bruce, Department of History, whose advisor is Dr. Larry Simon. The title of Mr. Bruce’s dissertation is “The Politics of Intercultural Exchange: The Taifa of Denia and the Western Mediterranean.” Mr. Bruce is a recipient of the All-University Graduate Research and Creative Scholar Award at WMU and spent 2004–05 on a research fellowship from the Fulbright Institute. He has published in the Journal of Medieval History and presented at numerous national and international conferences.

Arus Harutyunyan, Department of Political Science, whose advisor is Dr. Emily Hauptmann. The title of Ms. Harutyunyan’s dissertation is “Contesting National Identities in an Ethnically Homogeneous State: The Case of Armenian Democratization.” A native of Armenia, Ms. Harutyunyan’s dissertation focuses on the effect of multiple national identities on democratization in Armenia. Her research has been presented at numerous conferences and published in Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization.

Yuchun Lin, a student in the Computational Chemistry program in the Department of Chemistry, whose advisor is Dr. Yirong Mo. The title of Mr. Lin’s dissertation is “Molecular Modeling on Ammonia/Ammonium Transporter Protein AmtB.” His research on the computational modeling and simulation of proteins has led to recent publications in the most prestigious journals in chemistry.

Nathanael O’Reilly, Department of English, whose advisor is Dr. Gwen Tarbox. The title of Mr. O’Reilly’s dissertation is “Between the City and the Bush: Suburbia in Contemporary Australian Fiction.” Mr. O’Reilly’s work in the field of Australian literature has resulted in international recognition as a scholar, including six journal publications in the past year and service on the editorial board of the North American journal for Australian literary studies