2025-26 nomination deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at noon (12 p.m. PT). The Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship assists Ph.D. candidates in the final stages of writing their dissertations. The 2025-26 Dissertation Fellowship is offered with the support of the University President and includes one quarter of UW state tuition and fees, GAIP insurance, and a stipend at the Predoctoral TA II rate (currently $3,291 per month). Each unit listed at the end of this announcement may submit ONE nominee. Eligibility Application…
Doctoral students in interdisciplinary programs face unique challenges in forming dissertation committees. Based on our experience as directors of three such programs (Public Health Genetics, Urban Design and Planning, and Astrobiology), we offer the following suggestions. Your first challenge Find the optimal set of members — especially the right chair (or two co-chairs) for your committee. Committee members need to: In planning for a dissertation, you should consult extensively with faculty members in your program for guidance about: The role…
Research involving animals or humans is an essential component of many dissertation research projects. Knowing how to comply with regulations governing human and animal research is critically important to many graduate students. These regulations enhance academic integrity while also protecting research subjects. The first step: Be advised of compliance mandates The Graduate School requires submission of a completed “Use of Human and Animal Subjects for UW Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations” form to ensure that students have been advised about…
Interested in publishing your dissertation as a book? You will likely need to revise it extensively so it will appeal to a wider audience and compete in the literary marketplace. Here are some guidelines to help you in this process. Timeline Dissertations differ from books in several ways Elements that make a good book The revision process Basics Details Resources The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. (2003). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. German, William. (2005). From dissertation to book. Chicago: University of Chicago…
The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship program is designed to support emerging scholars as they pursue bold and innovative research in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. The program will make awards to doctoral students who show promise of leading their fields in important new directions. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development, before writing is advanced, and provide time and support for…
These awards recognize outstanding and exceptional scholarship and research at the doctoral level. Nominations are due by 5 p.m. PST, May 1, 2025. Each recipient will receive an honorarium of $1,000. Call for Nominations The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2025 Distinguished Dissertation Awards competition in the following four categories: *CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award 2025 fields of competition. These awards recognize outstanding and exceptional scholarship and research at the doctoral level. Nominations are due by 5 p.m. PST,…
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the following 2025 awards: Nominations are due 5 p.m. PST, May 1, 2025. In fairness to all nominators, this is a firm deadline; no exceptions or extensions will be granted. Please send questions and/or submissions to graddean@uw.edu. Recipients The Graduate School is pleased to recognize the following recipients of the Distinguished Dissertation and Thesis Awards, which recognize outstanding and exceptional scholarship and research at the doctoral and master’s levels.
To graduate with a master’s (thesis program) or doctoral (dissertation program) degree, students are required to submit an Electronic Thesis/Dissertation (ETD) and a Committee Approval Form to the Graduate School through the UW ETD Administrator Site. ETDs are distributed by ProQuest/UMI Dissertation Publishing and made available on an open access basis through UW Libraries ResearchWorks Service. The Graduate School partners with the UW Libraries to provide comprehensive resources for students as they write, submit, and publish academic theses or dissertations. These pages…
A Final Examination may be scheduled if: (a) a student passed a General Examination in a previous quarter; (b) a reading committee is officially established with the Graduate School; (c) the reading committee has read an entire draft of the dissertation and; (d) the entire supervisory committee has agreed that the student is prepared and has approved the student to schedule a Final Examination. At least four members of a supervisory committee (including the Chair, Graduate School Representative, and one…
Giselle Antoine Business Dissertation: “Organizational Cultures of Guilt and Shame” English Dissertation: “Decolonizing Collaboration in English Language Teaching: Teacher Identity and Tanzania” Renee Lynch is a PhD candidate in the English Department whose dissertation examines how English teachers negotiate identity during collaboration and make sense of these identities in the context of larger discourses around English language, race, colonialism and development. Arthur Obst Philosophy Dissertation: Wilderness for Wildness: Saving the Wild in a Post-Natural World Arthur Obst is a PhD…