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Each spring, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History awards roughly four summer research fellowships to Harvard College juniors writing a senior thesis on any topic in American history. The award amount is commensurate with the research budget, up to a maximum of $2,500 each. Undergraduates in any concentration are welcome to apply, but the focus of the thesis must be on American history and the methodology must be primarily historical. The purpose of the fellowship is to enable students to spend a significant period of time on thesis research in the summer preceding the senior year. A complete application consists of the following: * Submission of the materials listed below by 5pm on Monday, March 10th, 2008; deliver materials in hardcopy to the Warren Center, Emerson Hall Fourth Floor * Printed output from the Common Application for Research and Travel (CARAT) found at * The research proposal, (no more than four pages, double-spaced) including the following three elements: 1) statement of the subject proposed, 2) list and discussion of the sources, libraries and archives to be consulted, and 3) itinerary and plan of summer research. This proposal should be developed in consultation with the recommender (see next item). If the recommender will not be the thesis adviser, please say so in the research proposal, with an indication of plans to date towards the identification of the thesis adviser. * One letter of recommendation from a faculty member, tutor or teaching fellow. You may direct the recommender to her/himself send the letter to the Warren Center by the deadline, or collect the letter yourself for submission along with the rest of the application. If the latter, the letter should be in a sealed envelope, signed by the recommender across the seal. * An official grade transcript (through the fall semester) sent to the Warren Center. Again, applications and supporting materials are due at the Warren Center, Emerson Hall 400, on Monday, March 10, 2008. Applicants will be notified of the Center's decisions in April. Note that you must inform the Warren Center immediately in the unlikely event that you receive an award for the same or similar research from another source. Successful applicants will receive the total stipend in May. Each fellowship winner is required to submit in the fall a brief report of his or her summer's research and to give a copy of the completed thesis to the Center.
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