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Scholarships and Awards

In addition to scholarships offered by the university and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, we offer program-specific scholarships for students in ASPECT. 

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The Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought offers Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) funding full-time for Ph.D. students only. Entering students can apply for such funding as part of their admissions application. ASPECT's GTA funds will only support full-time Ph.D. students. 

Duration of Funding

We normally offer 4 years of Assistantships for funded Ph.D. students. Contracts are for one year, with renewal depending on progress in the degree program and satisfactory performance of assistantship duties. 

Benefits of Assistantships

Assistantships provide these benefits: 

Applying for Funding

A question on the Graduate School application for graduate admissions asks whether you want to be considered for a teaching assistantship. If you check yes, you will respond to additional questions and be added to our list of candidates. All new positions begin in the fall semester. 

Please note that you do not need to submit separate applications to be considered for Graduate Assistantships. 

Application Open Dates: Same as admissions

Deadline: February 1st

Contact Person: Tamara Sutphin

ASPECT Outstanding Dissertation Awardees


Michael Butera (2010)

Techniques of Listening and Acoustic Orders


Claudio D’amato (2017)

Human Capabilities and Collectivist Justice


Juan Carlos Sanchez Sierra (2011)

Worshiping Leadership: Morality, Revolutionary Values, And The Politics Of Magnicidio (Assassination) In The Case Of Camilo Torres And Fabio Vásquez With The ELN, Colombia 1963-1978


Katie Cross (2018)

Spiritual, But Not Religious Identities in U.S. Faith-Based Activism: Case Studies in the Nipponzan Myohoji Order and the Catholic Worker Movement


Scott Tate (2012)

Civic Tinkering in a Small City: Imaginaries and Intersections of Art, Place, and Marginality


Caroline Alphin (2019)

Living on the Edge of Burnout: Defamiliarizing Neoliberalism through Cyberpunk Science Fiction


Robert Kirsch (2012)

Market Challenges to Democracy: The Political Economy of Hyman Minsky


Emma Stamm (2020)

Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data


Lyusyena Kirakosyan (2013)

Democratic Justice for Brazilians with Impairments


Robert Flahive (2021)

Preserving Power, Remaking the Past: Race, Colonialism, Modernism, and Architectural Preservation


Aaron Stoller (2014)

An Experimental Hope: The Case for Emergent Pedagogy


Shaun Respess (2022)

The Ethics of (Dis)connection: Understanding 'Care' Through Phenomena of Despair


Christian Matheis (2015)

We who make one another: Liberatory solidarity as relational


Jordan Fallon (2023)

Culinary Man


Francine Rossone de Paula (2016)

Brazil Come to the Future: Living Time and Space in the International Order of Competition


Muhammed Shah Shajahan (2024)

The Brahmin Problem: Charity, Expenditure and the Genealogy of Sovereignty in Travancore