The Benjamin A. Quarles Graduate Fellowship

Welcome Prospective Graduate Fellows!

The Benjamin Quarles Graduate Student Scholars program is pleased to announce the 2025 Call  for Proposals for Summer research stipends for Graduate Student Scholars. 

We invite proposals that consider how the public humanities have arrived at their current place,  what that place looks like to us today, and where we wish to go from here. We especially encourage proposals that engage humanities practitioners, professionals, and scholars/academics  to discuss shared or aligned destinations in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences disciplines/areas. 

Funding Range: $3,000-$ 5,000 based on the length of the project and the deliverable (s). Number of Awards: 4

ELIGIBILITY: 

- Graduate students must be within the two (2) years of completing the dissertation and will  use the funds for specific aspects of their work; 

- PhD students whose research focuses on, but not limited to, the interdisciplinary and  integrated study of African-American and African Diaspora life and culture and will  include a research and scholarship program for faculty in the humanities and related  social sciences and for graduate students training for careers in academe. 

- Related disciplines included Art, English, History, Philosophy, Anthropology,  Political Theory, Political Philosophy, and humanities and theoretical approaches in other related social sciences. 

- Morgan State University PhD students with demonstrated potential for research in the proposed area. 

- Collaborative Research Projects are welcome. 

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES: 

1. Identify the type of project 
2. Publishing/Exhibitions/Performances
3. Dissertation Research
4. Abstract 

 III. Proposal 

1. Describe the scope or purpose of the proposed project.
2. Describe the specific aims/goals of the project. 
3. Describe the methodological approach(es). 
4. Describe the outcomes of the project. 
5. State how funding will impact the outcomes. 
6. Describe the length of the proposed project. 
7. Describe the impact and significance of the project on the field.  IV. Bibliography 
8. Budget 
9. A. Budget
10. Budget Justification
11. Recent copy of CV 

Return the completed application Quarles Graduate Scholars materials  By April 1, 2025 at 5:00 pm to: 

The Office of the Dean 

College of Liberal Arts 

Attn: Ms. Sharon Hylton-Brown or Mx. Teddy Jackson Lee 

Quarles Humanities and Social Sciences Institute 

Jenkins Hall, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Room 223 

Morgan State University 

e-mail:  Sharon.hyltonbrown@morgan.edu or Teddy.jacksonlee@morgan.edu 

Visit the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Sciences Institute Webpage for more  information: The Benjamin A. Quarles Graduate Fellowship (morgan.edu)

Link to the Application Form