FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“I am delighted to announce that for another year running the National Institute of Social Sciences has received an outstanding number of high quality submissions for its 2024 Dissertation Grant competition. After extensive deliberations, the Grants Committee has decided to award grants to seven candidates this year, which represents an increase over the number of grants awarded in 2022 and 2023,” said President of the National Institute, Fred Larsen.
“Our Grants Committee once again received an impressive number of strong submissions from scholars at many top-ranked graduate institutions, and the proposals came from a broad range of social science disciplines,” said Grants Committee Co-Chairs Suzanne Farrell and Cathy Shraga. “In this highly competitive field, our grant awardees stood out for their diversity and relevance to today’s world. The strength of this year’s proposals resulted in a record number of total grants.”
This year’s winners of the Dissertation Grants are:
Celine Camps, doctoral candidate in the History of Early Modern Science at Columbia University
Sabrina Charles, doctoral candidate in Sociology at New York University
Gerpha Gerlin, doctoral candidate in Anthropology and masters student in Public Health at Northwestern University
Yi-Hsuan Huang, doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Theodora K. Hurley, doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Chicago
Kayden Stockwell, doctoral candidate in Developmental Psychology at the University of Virginia
Ethan vanderWilden, doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Learn more about the 2024 Dissertation Grant Awardees by clicking on their names above.
“Our ability to offer so many grants to worthy candidates this year is supported by the continuing generosity of our Trustees, Members, and friends of the National Institute. The National Institute looks to strengthen its mission by continuing to grow our Grant-making activities and supporting multiple scholars doing promising research in the social sciences,” President Larsen added.
The National Institute is delighted to continue its direct support of graduate studies in the social sciences by helping to fund these scholars’ promising and groundbreaking research.
You can learn more about the National Institute’s Grants Program and this year’s awardees here.