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Faculty Sponsorship Mellon Graduate Workshops provide resources for faculty working closely with graduate students at the dissertation stage in the humanities and humanistically oriented social sciences. Workshops focus on an intellectual problem or topic that may originate with a faculty member's research, or with the interests of dissertation-level graduate students who would benefit from collaboration. The workshops are not courses, but should provide a forum where students can read and discuss one another's work. Ordinarily they meet some 12 times over the course of the academic year. Mellon Graduate Workshops must be organized by at least one faculty member and one graduate student, and they run throughout the academic year. Workshops are not classes. Administrative and scheduling details are the responsibility of the student coordinator. Workshops enrich the scholarship of graduate students as they present their work beyond their departments, as they form valuable connections with faculty and peers from other disciplines, and as they engage with the research and perspectives of visiting scholars. Graduate workshops energize graduate students in writing their dissertations and help them to sustain the intellectual connections they have made in earlier coursework. Further, they foster the exploration of common research agendas in the humanities and social sciences at Brown. The Mellon Graduate Workshop provides a framework for exchange and discussion, supplemented by a $2,000 faculty research stipend, a $2,000 stipend for the student coordinator, and resources for at least three visiting scholars to attend and present their work to the workshop. Faculty research stipends are paid in two equal payments at the beginning of each semester of the workshop. Please consult the Proposals Area of this site for information about current pending proposals and suggestions for Mellon Graduate Workshops. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Graduate_School@brown.edu. |