The Lynne Cooper Harvey Fellowship, awarded to approximately three Ph.D. students a year, helps to build a community of graduate students in Arts & Sciences engaged with each other in pursuing multidisciplinary work on American culture. The Harvey Fellows receive up to five years of summer stipends (in addition to financial support from their home department) to support their work. They meet with AmCS faculty in monthly events, participate in seminars and other AmCS symposia, and have the opportunity to teach AmCS courses of their own design before completing their dissertation. The Harvey Fellowship program offers a special collegial community, an intellectual center where common interests and diverse disciplinary and methodological perspectives come together.

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Harvey Fellows are expected to participate in the AmCS graduate program as follows:

• Complete the Certificate in American Culture Studies
• Meet with other Fellows regularly to share ideas
• Mentor undergraduate AmCS students, who can serve as research assistants on graduate research projects
• Serve as TA in an AmCS undergraduate course (given appropriate arrangements with the Fellow's home department)
• Teach an independent AmCS topics course on a special subject related to the Fellow's research interests (given appropriate arrangements with the Fellow's home department)
• Help build American Culture Studies at Washington University by organizing and supporting interdisciplinary study groups, symposia, conferences that feature visiting scholars, and summer exchange programs

In doing so, Harvey Fellows work closely with the director and graduate chair of American Culture Studies. The Harvey Fellowship summer stipend is $3,000 and may grow incrementally when funding permits.

Ph.D. students who already hold special University fellowships (such as the Chancellor's or Olin fellowship) can also receive appropriate support from AmCS. Named AmCS Fellows, they participate in the graduate program on the same academic and collegial terms as Harvey Fellows.

If you are interested in being considered for an AmCS fellowship, please write to Prof. Wayne Fields, Director of American Culture Studies, Campus Box 1126, Washington University, at the time you submit your application to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In your letter, please explain the nature of your interest in American Culture Studies and how you expect your work toward the Certificate will enhance your graduate studies. You can also contact the American Culture Studies office for information by e-mail at acsp@artsci.wustl.edu.