Dissertation Year Grants

Application Deadline: January 11

The HTI will award six (6) one-year dissertation fellowships per year throughout the life of the program to applicants who are ABD (All But Dissertation). Each award will be for an average of $16,000 for a period of one academic year. It is expected that the applicant completes his/her dissertation at the end of the award year. This grant is not renewable and cannot be extended beyond the designated award year.

In addition to monetary support to help the awardee devote as much time as possible to writing, the HTI will also provide the dissertation year awardee with:

  • Skilled editorial support in order to facilitate a timely completion of the dissertation.
  • A mid-year workshop to monitor and encourage the writing process, to provide a time for discussion of dissertation, and to provide collegial support.

Qualifications

  1. Recommendations by professors giving witness to the applicant's potential to contribute to the academic community as a scholar.
  2. Recommendations by Latino church/community leaders giving witness to the applicant's commitment and leadership to the Latino community.
  3. The potential of the applicant to contribute to the academic community as demonstrated by the dissertation proposal.
  4. The ability of the applicant to articulate the relevance of the applicant's research to the United States or Canada Latino community/reality.

Other Criteria

Applicants must be citizens of the United States of America or Canada, or Legal Immigrants (Aliens admitted in the country as lawful permanent residents). Please be advised that Student Visa is considered a nonimmigrant visa. If you need additional information you can visit the US Citizenship and Immigration Services webpage at http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/services/residency/index.htm, or Citizenship and Immigration Canada http://www.cic.gc.ca.

Applicants must be in a school accredited by an agency recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, http://www.chea.org.

Applicants should address important critical issues of their disciplines in an analytical, interpretive, or theoretical manner.

Applicants who plan to study in Latin America or Europe are not eligible for scholarship grants.

Application Procedure

Applicants must include:

  1. A completed HTI application. (To download the application form as a PDF document (357k file), click on the image to the right. The PDF application form is interactive, allowing it to be completed on a computer and then printed for submission. To view the application form, you need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. If you do not have this application already, you may download it, free, by clicking on the Get Acrobat Reader button at the bottom of this page.)
  2. A one-page vita which highlights your academic, church, and community related activities and accomplishments.
  3. Copy of dissertation proposal which should have been approved by the institution's Committee on Degrees or equivalent oversight committee.
  4. Proposed time-line for writing which should clearly explain expected progress of the dissertation chapters in the one-year grant period.
  5. Official proof of ABD status from institution to be sent directly to the HTI office.
  6. List of publications in print.
  7. Letter from the applicant's dissertation advisor attesting to the feasibility of the time-line submitted to the HTI and stating the academic contribution of the applicant's dissertation. To be sent directly to HTI by your advisor. The deadline to receive this letter is December 15.
  8. Letters of reference from two (2) leaders within the Latino church/community. These letters should stress your involvement with the Latino community as a theological/religious leader. To be sent directly to the HTI by the leaders. The deadline to receive these letters is December 15.

NOTE:  If you have not been part of the HTI program in the past, you need to submit official transcripts from colleges, seminaries, and/or universities attended. To be sent directly to the HTI by the school. The deadline to receive these transcripts is December 31.

To facilitate the processing of your application, you MUST send items 1-5 on unstapled, unfolded, standard (8.5" x 11") paper. Print should be dark and crisp for copying. Applications not received in this manner will not be processed.