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.
Graduate Scholarships and Fellowships List
Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought Graduate Assistantship
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:
- Stipend
- Tuition waiver
- Health Insurance Program (see the Graduate School benefits page for details)
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
- Muhammed Shah Shajahan (2024)
The Brahmin Problem: Charity, Expenditure and the Genealogy of Sovereignty in Travancore - Jordan Fallon (2023)
Culinary Man - Shaun Respess (2022)
The Ethics of (Dis)connection: Understanding 'Care' Through Phenomena of Despair - Robert Flahive (2021)
Preserving Power, Remaking the Past: Race, Colonialism, Modernism, and Architectural Preservation - Emma Stamm (2020)
Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data - Caroline Alphin (2019)
Living on the Edge of Burnout: Defamiliarizing Neoliberalism through Cyberpunk Science Fiction - 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 - Claudio D’amato (2017)
Human Capabilities and Collectivist Justice - Francine Rossone de Paula (2016)
Brazil Come to the Future: Living Time and Space in the International Order of Competition - Christian Matheis (2015)
We who make one another: Liberatory solidarity as relational - Aaron Stoller (2014)
An Experimental Hope: The Case for Emergent Pedagogy - Lyusyena Kirakosyan (2013)
Democratic Justice for Brazilians with Impairments - Robert Kirsch (2012)
Market Challenges to Democracy: The Political Economy of Hyman Minsky - Scott Tate (2012)
Civic Tinkering in a Small City: Imaginaries and Intersections of Art, Place, and Marginality - 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 - Michael Butera (2010)
Techniques of Listening and Acoustic Orders