Summer fellowship for PhD students at Yale

The Yale Club of San Francisco annually awards a summer fellowship to a current Ph.D. student of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

The award is made to a student who demonstrates a need to visit the San Francisco Bay Area, in order to complete their thesis research. The total stipend that covers costs to visit the Bay Area over the summer range from S2,500 to $3,500.

2024

Coming soon!

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2023

Gabrielle Printz, Architecture

Contractor Kingdom: A History of Gulf Construction, Human Resource Development, and the International Project of Saudi Arabia in the Late Twentieth Century

Still enrolled.

Michelle Venetucci Harvey, Anthropology

Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Study of Agency and Social Change in Silicon Valley

Still enrolled.

2022

Gabriel Aron (Aron) Ramirez, History

Picket-Fence Pan-Ethnicity: Homeownership, Class, and Latinidad in the Late Twentieth Century

Because of the research afforded me by the Yale Club, my dissertation earned two prizes, the university's Theron Rockwell Field Prize and the department of history's Edwin W. Small Prize.

Daniel Swain, English Language and Literature, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies

The Yale Club of San Francisco Fellowship will allow me to conduct essential archival research on two Bay Area poets, Thom Gunn and Jack Spicer. Reading their papers, which are held at the Bancroft Library, will enable me to understand the interrelationship of their professional and romantic lives. Being based in San Francisco and Berkeley will also afford me the opportunity to conduct further historical research into the way the AIDS epidemic impacted the San Francisco LGBT community, and to consult papers related to the broader poetic communities in which Gunn and Spicer operated (for instance, Beat poets and the San Francisco Renaissance).

Still enrolled.

2021

Connor Williams, History

A Race on The Frontier: African American Lives, Labors & Communities in Northern California, 1850-1915

Still enrolled.

Leila Ben Abdallah, Political Science

Reclaiming the Rock: The 1969 Occupation of Alcatraz and Indigenous Organizing in the Era of Relocation (1956-1971)

Graduated with a PhD in Political Science December 2023. Her first employment post-graduation was at the Center for International Studies, Cornell University, as an Inequality, Identities, and Justice Postdoctoral Fellow.

Faye (Yuhe) Wang, American Studies

Bureaucratic Violence: Chinese Civil Rights, Racial Capitalism, and the Rise of Corporations

Graduated with a PhD in American Studies December 2022. Her first post-graduation employment was as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.

2020

Navin Kumar, Sociology

Social Network Support in Opioid Use Disorder Patients

Graduated with a PhD in Sociology December 2021. His first employment post-graduation was as a postdoc at the Yale School of Medicine.