Updated 7-1-24
If you are presenting at a conference, or if you will incur costs associated with your thesis or capstone project, you can apply for one of the following awards. A student can only receive one conference award and one research award per academic year. If you have questions about your eligibility or the process, be in touch with the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Alyssa Stalsberg Canelli: acanelli@brandeis.edu.
Other award opportunities are available from the Office of Graduate Affairs.
Master's Student Conference Awards
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- Master's students from all GSAS programs
- Must be in good academic standing with their program
- Conference must occur between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025
- Presenting a paper or poster, serving on a panel or giving a talk/workshop. Participation in the conference must be evidenced by a listing in the conference’s official program materials.
- Expenses can include travel, lodging, registration fees
- Exclusions: no food, alcohol
- Conference Award application link
- Applications will be reviewed and approved on a rolling basis (within 2 weeks of submission) by the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs.
- Please note that there are limited award funds available, so apply as soon as your participation has been confirmed by the conference.
- The funding will be awarded on a first-come/first-served basis. Once the funding has been fully awarded, the application will close.
- Submit appropriate documentation (conference material/urls, receipts) in a timely way, or the award will be forfeited.
Master's Student Research Awards
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- Master's students from all GSAS programs
- Must be in good academic standing with their program
- Research expenses associated with a thesis or capstone project
- Expenses can include: travel, research-related lodging, archival access, research supplies, transcription
- Exclusions: no food, alcohol, Brandeis fees/tuition, laptops, software, hardware, textbooks for courses
- Research Award application link
- Deadlines: November 1, 2024 and March 1, 2025. Applications that are received after November 1 will be held until the March 1, 2025 review cycle.
- Research award applications will be reviewed by a selection committee after the two deadlines, November 1, 2024 and March 1, 2025. The selection committee will include the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and the Faculty Director of Professional Development.
- Criteria: clarity of the proposed plan, degree progress to date, feasibility of completing the project as outlined, thesis advisor’s support
- Submit appropriate documentation (receipts) in a timely way, or the award will be forfeited.
Recent Award Recipients
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Spring 2024
Fall 2023
- Emma Sundeen (Sociology and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies)
Spring 2023
- Nhi Le (Anthropology)
- Alena Lokhmanenko (Psychology)
- Danielle Wallner (History)
- Tianze Zhu (History)
Fall 2022
- Delany Berry (Genetic Counseling)
- Rebecca Clark (Genetic Counseling)
- Silvana Davila (Genetic Counseling)
- Gabriella Gondran (Genetic Counseling)
- Kaleigh Liebler (Genetic Counseling)
- Lucian Parece (Genetic Counseling)
- Jesika Smith (Genetic Counseling)
- Lily Weglarek (Genetic Counseling)
Spring 2022
- Sophie Katz (Anthropology)
- Kritika Storer (Psychology)
Fall 2021
- Kimberly Butland (Genetic Counseling)
- Meagan Crumley (Genetic Counseling)
- Helen Dellas (Genetic Counseling)
- Kaela Drzewiecki (Genetic Counseling)
- Bailey Kamp (Genetic Counseling)
- Alaena Lim (Genetic Counseling)
- Victoria Morris (Genetic Counseling)
- Lauren O’Sullivan (Genetic Counseling)
- Katherine Prince (Genetic Counseling)
- Davia Schioppo (Genetic Counseling)
- Thelma Wang (Joint Sociology/WGS)
2023-2024
- Xiangchi Yuan (Computer Science)
2022-2023
- Abigail Beckham (Anthropology)
2021-2022
- Regina Nagan (Classical Studies)
