NICHOLAS D. CHABRAJA CENTER FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES

Graduate Fellowship Application

Graduate T.H. BREEN and QUINN FELLOWS

Please note: Graduate fellowships cannot be awarded to students in their 8^th year or later. Therefore, applicants must be in their 6^th year or earlier at the time of applying. 

The Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies invites applications for graduate T.H. Breen Fellowships and one Quinn Fellowship for the next academic year. All the fellowships are at the level of a full-year Northwestern graduate stipend, with TGS providing tuition. Fellows are given the choice of having the stipend paid over three quarters (9 months without summer support) or over 12 months, from September through August.

There is a common application for both the Quinn and Breen fellowships. Selection of recipients and allocation of fellowships will be made by a faculty committee and announced by mid-May. The CCHS fellowship does not count towards the maximum years of departmental support.

Center Fellows are expected to participate fully in the ongoing work of the Center. Responsibilities also include (1) providing assistance during the time that visiting speakers and global graduate student exchanges are on campus, and 2) serving as liaisons between the Center and the undergraduate Leopold Fellows.

The Center expects to select three BREEN Fellows and one QUINN Fellow.

The responsibilities of the BREEN Fellows may include assisting with the Center's global graduate exchange with Queen Mary University of London (QMUL); helping to organize our faculty conference, “Religious Pluralism and Rulership in Early Modern Eurasia”; and helping to facilitate our series of graduate/postdoctoral manuscript workshops and other internal center activities. 

The QUINN Fellowship is offered in partnership with the Doris G. Quinn Foundation. It is designated for students in their last year of dissertation work. The Quinn Fellow is expected to participate fully in the ongoing work of the Center and complete writing the dissertation.

APPLICATION DEADLINE for 2025-26 Fellowships: Tuesday, APRIL 22, 2025 by 4 p.m.

Please send the application materials to Assistant Director Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch at efp@northwestern.edu as a doc, docx or pdf file. Please combine all the elements in one attachment (zipped folder) with subject line: LAST NAME grad fellowship application (e.g. SMITH grad fellowship application). Recommendation letters should be e-mailed to the same address by the deadline.

The application materials should contain the following:

• Current CV (with contact information)
• A brief (one-page) description of the applicant’s academic work, as well as

• A one-paragraph description of how the applicant might contribute to the Center’s activities.
• A signed form indicating a willingness to take on the full range of responsibilities for Center Fellows.
• A letter of recommendation from the head of the applicant's dissertation committee.
• A sample chapter of the dissertation.