Descriptions of Scholarship and Fellowship Programs
Applicants should note that the Newcombe Foundation makes grants only for scholarships and fellowships and that scholarship grants are made to universities and colleges, which select recipients and distribute Newcombe awards. No grants are made directly to individuals.
Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation funds a major program of graduate fellowships in the humanities and social sciences. From the Newcombe Fellowships' origin in 1980, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has handled the selection process and all administration for this program. Click here for application information.
The 979 Newcombe Fellows selected in the last 26 years represented 74 American universities. These young scholars' dissertations have added knowledge in their disciplines and have addressed issues of contemporary significance. History, literature, religion, philosophy and anthropology have been the most-represented fields of study. The Newcombe Fellows have achieved a high rate of degree completion (93%) and a fine record of academic employment at 340 universities and colleges in the USA and 40 abroad.
The Foundation's 2006 grant to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation to conduct the 2006 Newcombe Fellowships competition and to administer the program was $772,000. In 26 years of funding, this program has received $15,562,000.
Please refer to www.woodrow.org/newcombe for a list of current selection committees and fellows.
- K. D., 2002 Newcombe Fellow"The Newcombe Foundation's commitment to the study of ethics has given my own work deeper resonance, and as I write in the coming months, I will continually be reminded of that larger undertaking. That alone is an extraordinary gift. I am profoundly grateful for both the freedom and the charge this grant has given me."
- B. M., 2005 Newcombe Fellow"If ever there were a time in American life when the scholarly study of religious values merits our best efforts, this must indeed be it; I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to join the Foundation and the fellows in this work."