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Social and Environmental Justice Research Grants

The Philosophy department, with kind support from the Irving Institute, will fund independent philosophical research on issues of social justice related to race, class, gender, energy, and/or the environment. Please visit the Philosophy website for eligibility and requirements.

Highlights:

• $1,500 Fellowships during a leave term (only).
• November 1: Winter term (& winterim) application deadline
• FMI: https://philosophy.dartmouth.edu/news-events/philosophy-and-struggle-against-racism/social-and-environmental-justice-research-grants

Interested students should contact a member of the Philosophy Department who is willing to serve as an advisor and formulate a research plan with their help. Since applications are due roughly at the fifth week of a term, contacting potential advisors in the first couple of weeks of the term is recommended. No late or incomplete applications will be accepted.

Complete applications include:

1. An application statement (1,000 words max) describing the intended research project, your reasons for pursuing it, and a tentative schedule of work. It is not required that students produce term papers on their selected topics. The end result could be an annotated bibliography, an instructional video, a short paper, a website, an op-ed, or a critical summary of the research undertaken. The application should also include:
2. A bibliography containing at least ten sources, articles or books, that are relevant to the project.
3. An unofficial transcript.
4. The name of the faculty advisor consulted in creating the proposal.

Each of these parts should be combined into a single pdf, and submitted using the form at: https://forms.gle/RUVA35UQuPa3C13Z7

Applications will be reviewed by members of the philosophy department. Members of the review committee are ineligible to be faculty advisors. Proposals will be evaluated in terms of their feasibility, topicality, and relation to philosophy, broadly construed.

Students are required to meet with their advisors at the beginning and toward the end of their projects. The faculty member's role is mainly to offer advice for how to proceed with the research. At the beginning of the term after the end of the project, students should submit their final work, whatever it happens to be, to their faculty advisor.