For the 2024-2025 year, graduate program chairs will have the opportunity to nominate one applicant for a Deans’ Faculty Fellowship. Nominations from programs without an active PhD program, including undergraduate programs or centers and institutes, will require prior review of budget availability.
Deans’ Faculty Fellows will teach or co-teach one course in a host department. Deans’ Faculty Fellows may take on additional research or teaching duties if funding is available from grants or other departmental sources.
Applicants must be nominated for a Deans’ Faculty Fellowship. Applicants must be Brown doctoral students, active in Fall 2024, who commit to completing all requirements for the degree (including completing, defending, and depositing the dissertation) by December 1, 2024. Applicants may be in any year of their graduate program at the time of application, including in year six or above.
The program is open to students of all nationalities. However, international students will have to arrange with the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISSS) for authorization for employment for the term of the appointment (Optional Practical Training). Please note that many students are limited to just 12 months of OPT, and the appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor will count for 4.5 months of the OPT. Interested international students should consult in advance with OISSS and follow all guidance as directed, as the process is time-sensitive and delays may prevent stepping into the DFF role.
The applicant selection criteria will include the applicant’s record of excellence in teaching and scholarship; their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; their timely progress toward degree completion and their plan for completion (with extra consideration for applicants completing in 6 years or less); and, for all applicants, the support from the advisor and department.
The application will be available through UFunds (under “Graduate School Distinctive Opportunities”). Applicants should consult with their Chair (or DGS) before applying to confirm their department’s nomination in advance:
Fellows appointed for the spring 2025 semester will receive a salary of $19,000 for 4.5 months. The position enables graduate students to continue on their health insurance policy that they began in fall 2024. For graduate programs that did not pause admissions for 2021-2022 admissions cycle, funding for positions will be drawn primarily from departmental resources.
For questions, please contact Vanessa Ryan, Senior Associate Dean of Student Development, or Byrd McDaniel, Assistant Director of Student Development, at Graduate_Dean@brown.edu.
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English
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History of Art and Architecture
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Dissertation Title: Violence and the Repertoire: Coming of Age in the Age of Mass Shootings
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Dissertation Title: Personas, Animales y Objetos: Hacia una Ética de la Relación en la Poesía Latinoamericana de los Sesenta y Setenta
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Dissertation Title: Discovering and Solving Fractional Partial Differential Equations: Machine Learning and Monte Carlo Methods
Course: Machine Learning of Differential Equations
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Dissertation Title: Mourning (M)others: Images of a Maternal Education
Course: Mis(s)Education: Feminist Undoings of the German 'Bildungsroman'
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Dissertation Title: The Peripheral Metropolis: The City, Montage and Modernity
Course: The Torn Halves of Modernism
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Dissertation Title: Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics: Photochemistry in Real Time
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Dissertation Title: Quasilinear Modeling of Planetary Boundary-Layer Turbulence
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Dissertation Title: The Craft of Housebuilding among the Classic Maya
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Dissertation Title: Processing the City: Urban Change and Social Transformation in Roman North Africa (246 BCE- 193 CE)
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Dissertation Title: The Role of Uniqueness Motivation in Self- and Social- Judgement
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Dissertation Title: Developing Mathematical Models of Chemotaxis by Motile Bacteria
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Dissertation Title: Creaturely Constellations: Animals, Literature, and Critical Thought after Auschwitz
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Dissertation Title: Skepticism and the Limits of Knowledge in Modern Brazilian Narrative
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Dissertation Title: Novel Probes Topological Orders
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Dissertation Title: Beyond the Poetic Principle
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Dissertation Title: Schaulust: A Study in Light and Sound
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Dissertation Title: Occupy Hattuša: Views from the Borderlands of the Hittite Empire
Course: From Gilgamesh to Hektor: Heroes of the Bronze Age
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Dissertation Title: The Pursuit of Priority in Enlightenment Paris
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Dissertation Title: Structure and Stability in Localized Patterns
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Dissertation Title: Essays on Menu Preference: Flexibility and Commitment
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Dissertation Title: The Anticolonial Snapshot: South Asian Disruptions
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Dissertation Title: Advice from the Stars: The Micro-Zodiac in Seleucid Babylon
Course: Theory and Thought in the Ancient World
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Dissertation Title: Regge Scattering and Applications to Strong Coupling Phenomenology
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Dissertation Title: High Order Meshfree Methods for Direct Numerical Simulation of Incompressible Fluid Mechanics
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