RIDGS Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship

RIDGS is a host site for the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) sponsored by the Graduate School. You may apply to work with a RIDGS-affiliated faculty member to broaden the conceptual and disciplinary scope of your dissertation. If you are awarded an IDF with RIDGS, we provide you with professional development funds (e.g., for conference attendance, methods training, etc.), and the opportunity for you to workshop your writing in-progress with RIDGS faculty and students. We do not at this time have dedicated office space for fellows.

We are happy to meet with you if you think that RIDGS would be an ideal host center for you, and we can help connect you with an affiliated faculty member.

To apply, follow the Graduate School guidelines. Any applications for RIDGS as a host site must be reviewed by our own application committee, as we are limited in the number of fellows we can support each year, and we must provide a letter of endorsement to accompany your application. By October 13, 2024, please submit your proposal (it can be a near-final draft), and have your primary advisor and your proposed RIDGS mentor send letters of recommendation, to [email protected]. If your proposal is selected for endorsement, you would submit your final proposal and materials through your program home, and the RIDGS program director will add a letter of endorsement.

The Graduate School deadline (November 8, 2024 at 5:00pm CST) is the date/time by which a complete electronic program nomination, including all letters of support, must be submitted.