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Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism

Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism will award up to 10 undergraduate research fellowships for projects to be begun in the summer of 2009 and completed during the 2009-2010 academic year.

Students may receive grants of up to $2500. Each student application must be endorsed by a School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Advisor who will supervise the project throughout the 2009-2010 academic year. SAS Faculty Research Advisors may receive research grants of $500, which may be used to advance the Advisor’s own research, to employ the student as a Research Assistant, or to assist the student’s research. Funds have been provided through the generous support of the Mellon Foundation.

All full-time Penn undergraduate students enrolled in any school who wish to undertake research pertinent to the themes of “Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism” are eligible to apply. Political, sociological, historical, philosophical, anthropological, and literary projects exploring empirical and normative issues of democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism in any part of the world are eligible. Applicants are expected but not required to conduct research that will contribute to the writing of a Senior Essay or the completion of an SAS independent study course during the 2009-2010 academic year. Work may involve travel to libraries, archives, field or interview sites, government agencies, NGOs, or other institutions.

All grant recipients are required to participate in monthly seminars during the academic year, which will include discussions of research issues and strategies as well as scholarly presentations on the program’s themes. They will be eligible to attend the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism’s faculty workshop and conference sessions featuring leading scholars from around the world. All grant recipients are also required to give an oral presentation on their completed research by the end of the 2009-2010 academic year.

Click hereto download application forms. Applications are due no later than March 31, 2009. You must submit your application both electronically and one hard copy.

Please electronically submit your application and Penn in Touch transcript to (and include “DCC Application” in the Subject line of your email)

Please deliver a hard copy of your application and Penn transcript to the CURF Office in the ARCH addressed to:

Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
The ARCH, 3601 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6244
215-746-6488

Questions concerning the DCC Undergraduate Research Grants should be directed to Professor Rogers M. Smith, Chair of the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, e-mail , phone 215 898-7662, or the DCC Program Administrative Assistant, Elspeth Wilson, e-mail .