Carlson Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship

Deadline: Spring 2025

Program Description:

The Humanities Research Center awards Summer Research Fellowships to undergraduates with a strong background in the humanities. The fellowships require up to 200 hours of work on a research project led by a Rice faculty member engaged in humanistic research. Selected 2025 fellows will receive up to $3,500.

Eligibility:

Fellowships are awarded to select undergraduate students who have demonstrated significant academic achievement and considerable interest in humanities research, though they do not need to be a humanities major. Fellows must be enrolled at Rice in the Fall 2025 semester.

Application Materials:

1. Name
2. Description of the research project (200 words)
3. Endorsement from a faculty member, which the faculty member should email directly to Gabriela Garcia (gabriela.garcia@rice.edu) by the application deadline*
4. Start and end dates of the fellowship
5. Unofficial transcript

Deadline: TBA, Spring 2025

* The endorsement from the faculty member can be in the form of an email (it does not need to be a formal letter of recommendation). However, we ask that the faculty member indicate their knowledge of and involvement in the project thus far, how this fellowship will contribute to your scholarly and professional development, and their willingness to advise on the project.

Questions? Contact Dr. Gabriela Garcia at gabriela.garcia@rice.edu.

2024 Fellows

 

  • Dasseny Arreola
    • Year: Senior
    • Majors: English and Anthropology
    • Minors: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    • Research Project: “Familiarmorphism: the Dog in Victorian Literature”
  • Riley Combes
    • Year: Senior
    • Major: English
    • Minor: Politics, Law and Social Thought
    • Research Project: “Specters of Surveillance: Turn of the Screw and the Phenomenon of Ghosts as Panoptic Figures in Literature and Media”
  • Sara Davidson
    • Year: Senior
    • Majors: German Studies and Political Science
    • Minor: Politics, Law and Social Thought
    • Research Project: “‘Letters from Wuppertal’: How Friedrich Engels Examined the Inevitable Rise & Fall of Industry in German Towns”
  • Tessa Domsky
    • Year: Senior
    • Majors: Art and Art History
    • Studio Art Project: “Young Femininity”
  • Saba Feleke
    • Year: Senior
    • Majors: Art and Mechanical Engineering
    • Studio Art Project: “Objects Found – Space & Sound”
  • Kalyani Rao
    • Year: Sophomore
    • Majors: History and Classical Studies
    • Research Project: “Creaturely Encounters in the Atlantic World, 1625–1789”
  • Max Scholl
    • Year: Sophomore
    • Majors: English and Anthropology
    • Minor: Politics, Law and Social Thought
    • Research Project: “Fictions of the Pandemic”
  • Hannah Son
    • Year: Senior
    • Majors: English and Sociology
    • Research Project: “Negotiating Emerging Biculturalism in Korean American Literature”
  • Ashley Wang
    • Year: Senior
    • Major: English (Creative Writing Concentration)
    • Minor: Transnational Asian Studies
    • Creative Writing Project: “Diaspora & Disappearance: Reconstructing Family History Through Archival Methods”