The following prizes and awards are administered by the Political Science department. Except for the Edwin Robbins Fellowship and the Phyllis Stevens Sharp Fellowship, students DO NOT play an active part in the nomination process. Instead, faculty members nominate students at their own discretion.
Charles A. Beard Prize
A cash prize, awarded every year to the student who writes the best paper in Political Science during the academic year.
Caroline Phelps Stokes Prize
A cash prize, established at the bequest of Caroline Phelps Stokes, is awarded to a student who has been a degree candidate at Columbia College or Barnard College for at least one academic year, and who has written the best essay in course or seminar work on the general subject or the rights of man.
Alan J. Willen Memorial Prize
A cash prize, awarded to the College student who writes the best seminar paper on a contemporary American political problem.
Edwin Robbins Academic Research/Public Service Fellowship
The Robbins Fellowship provides a stipend each summer for at least two Political Science students in Columbia College who will be engaged in research in important matters of politics or policy making, or who will be working, without other compensation, as "interns" in a governmental office, agency, or other "public service organization."
Phyllis Stevens Sharp Fellowship in American Politics
The Phyllis Stevens Sharp Endowment Fund provides stipends each year during either academic semester or the summer for one or more Columbia College or School of General Studies students majoring or concentrating in Political Science to support research in American politics or policymaking or otherwise uncompensated internships in a government office, agency or other organization serving the public.
The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) is currently accepting fellowship applications from undergraduate students at Columbia University to conduct research related to
their dissertations and senior theses.
Up to five fellowships are available for Summer 2010 to Columbia undergraduate students to conduct research that will contribute to their senior theses in the 2010-2011 academic year. The fellowship will
provide each student $4000 to cover expenses directly related to research, including travel, lodging and materials. The student should select a faculty
member, who will help develop the details of the project and potentially serve as a thesis adviser. In Fall 2010, the students are expected to make
oral presentations on the results of their research.
Eligibility: Applications are welcome from Columbia College, General Studies and Barnard juniors in good academic standing.
Application: Please provide
- Name, Departmental Affiliation and School (CC or GS)
- List the courses you have taken you feel are relevant to IRCPL's mission.
- List all the languages you speak and your level of proficiency in each of them.
- Describe in one paragraph your interest in this field.
- Describe a potential project for summer research and where you propose to do the research.
- Describe a potential senior thesis topic and answer why working with this faculty member will help your thesis research and writing.
Applications via e-mail are preferred, but hard copies are also accepted.
All materials are due by 5pm on Monday, February 15, 2010 to:
Emily Brennan
[email protected]
Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
80 Claremont Avenue,
Room 203, MC 9611,
New York, NY 10027
Tel. 212-851-4145
Fax. 212-851-0781
http://ircpl.org