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Ethnographic Training Fellowship Applications

Applications are submitted to the Anthropology Department's Summer Fellowship Committee, which reviews proposals for this program each semester.  If you or your faculty mentor have questions or just want to discuss the program, please feel free to contact any of the Training Grant PIs for information.

Here's what you need to do

1. Plan ahead!  This is definitely not an opportunity for which you can decide at the last possible moment that you want to do it.

2. Qualify for the program by taking either Anth 318 or Anth 353.  You also can be enrolled in Anth 318 or Anth 353 during the semester that you apply for the fellowship.

3. Contact a UIUC Anthropology faculty member with whom you want to work in the field and ask if they will agree to participate in this program.  What you want to look for in a prospective mentor is shared methodological interests; different geographical interests are not, in principle, a problem.  (Your prospective mentor may also be interested to know that, for each student who receives a fellowship award, the UIUC anthropology department will award their faculty mentor $1,000 for research costs.)

4. Draft, in consultation with your prospective mentor, a proposal for a research project that emphasizes in-the-field training in ethnographic methods.  Your project should involve day-to-day interaction with your mentor or, if your mentor and you are working at different field sites,  frequent visits. Remember that the objective is training in ethnographic methods -- the research project need not have any relationship to your planned dissertation fieldwork, nor are you the faculty mentor's field assistant. 

After you receive a Training Fellowship

1. You and your faculty mentor must draft and sign a statement of your respective responsibilities and duties, and the training goals that will be achieved during the field session. This statement must be reviewed and approved by the Summer Fellowship Committee, in consultation with the Department Head, before the actual financial award can be made.

2. You are required to take Anth 364 from your field site faculty mentor during the fieldwork period.

3. During the academic year following your field training:

   1. You and your mentor must present a departmental colloquium on the methodological issues and substantive results of your joint field experience.

   2. You must take one or more of the following courses: Anth 322, Anth 325, and Anth 365.