For Students: Student Research Stipends
Painting by Emma Lo '08
To foster vigorous and independent humanistic scholarship by Haverford students, the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities offers research stipends of up to $300. Applications may be made for any of the following purposes:
- Travel to professional conferences & meetings relevant to a research project; to cultural events integral to a research or creative project; travel to libraries, collections, or museums to support a research or creative project;
- Obtaining materials needed for a research project unavailable in Tri-Co collections.
Grants are made on a rolling, ad hoc basis up to the capacity of the Center's funding line for this program. They are usually given for senior projects, although others may be considered. Applications must be supported by a Haverford faculty member.
How to Apply
Please email an MSWord file to Associate Director James Weissinger at jweissin@haverford.edu with the following:
- Name, Year, Major/Minor
- Faculty Sponsor name and contact info (make sure to tell your faculty sponsor you'll be putting down his/her name!)
- A description of your project; how will you utilize the funding? How does the project relate to your coursework?
- A detailed, itemized budget of expenses (travel, lodging, etc.)
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2009-10
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I applied to the Student Research Fund in order to fund a trip, and I was ecstatic that my application was accepted. The experience of going straight into the field for research will be extremely useful in the future. -
Over the summer, Angely Mondestin '10 was an intern for the BioArchaeological Project in Andahuaylas, Peru. -
Jessamine Kelley BMC '10 observed some of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's symbolist paintings, like Edvard Munch's The Mermaid.
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Laura Martin ‘11 was at the Royal Library of Sweden to do self-directed and creative research alongside an expert on the library and its resources. -
Part of Lindsay's research for her thesis entailed attending a performance of Royall Tyler’s “The Contrast,” the first show officially produced in the United States (1787).
2008-09
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Emily Bock '11 took the lead on a research project for the Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania's Women's Studies program. -
Stephanie Wu '09 was enrolled in Professor Paul Smith's West Meets East course, exploring the interaction between the United States and East Asia.
2007-08
Cara Curtis '10: traveled to Greensboro, NC to work on the Quaker Youth Book Project, an international collection of non-fiction prose, poetry, and visual art from younger Friends across Quakerism's theological spectrum.
Emma Lo '08: worked with Pittsburgh's Operation Safety Net documenting the homeless through portraiture for her Fine Arts thesis.
Andrew Vargas Stehney '08: visited the Archivo Nacional de Teatro y Cine del Ateneo Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rico) as part of his Film Studies senior thesis on the New Latin American Cinema of the 60s and 70s.
2006-07
Will Coleman '07: visited the Beinecke Library at Yale to study the correspondence between Edward Redfield and Robert Henri in the Henri Archive there as part of his History of Art thesis.
Timothy Golden '07: researched the life of James Samuel Stemons, a contemporary of W.E.B. Dubois, at the Historical Society of Philadelphia as part of a senior History thesis.
Maggie Gummere '07: gathered research materials as part of senior Fine Arts thesis.
Brandon West '07: traveled to hear Lawrence J. Hatab speak at Hunter College as part of research for Philosophy thesis.
Oliver Wunsch '07: gathered research materials as part of senior Fine Arts thesis "Open Container"
2005-06
Pankhuri Agrawal '06: attended a performance of Flamenco Olé at the Painted Bride Art Center;
Emma Chubb '06: researched senior History of Art thesis on artist Adrian Piper
Ross Lerner '06: attended the Harvard English Institute's annual conference with Professor Tina Zwarg
Jessica Mausner '06: attended the LA Tap Festival 2005
Celine Tobal '06: researched in Washington, DC on Augusto Pinochet
2004-05
Dave Alff '05: attended MLA Conference
Sarah Lowry '05: studied Brazilian dance in preparation for writing her senior thesis, "Bringing Spirituality into Modern Performance Dance: An Examination of The Silvestre Technique as a Space for Global Syncretism"
Elana Resnick '05: planned to present her senior Anthropology thesis at the Annual English Literature and Humanities Conference at Eastern Mediterranean University (although invited and approved, the conference conflicted with Haverford graduation – she did not go)