The Center for Feminist Futures invites applications for the Gender, Race, and Health Summer Graduate Fellowship. In a time of uncertainty about funding for health-based research, we are pleased to offer summer session B support for graduate students. The GRH Summer fellowship is intended to promote health research and interdisciplinary collaboration among the summer fellowship cohort. 

Topics and approaches

Graduate students (MA/PhD) working on health (broadly defined) as it intersects with gender, race, and/or sexuality are encouraged to apply. International and/or US based approaches are welcome. We anticipate projects using interdisciplinary methods, community-engaged, and qualitative and/or quantitative methods in areas such as health justice, health humanities, health policy, and critiques of biomedical models of research. Other research areas might include, but are not limited to, reproductive justice, gender based violence, health equity, LGBTQIA+ health, racialized and gendered health disparities, medical anthropology, the politics of care, feminist science studies, medical history, and mental health. 

Funding

Fellows receive $4000 in summer funding for summer session B

Requirements

To create a collaborative cohort of feminist health researchers, the GRH summer fellowship meets online four times during summer session B. The GRH fellows are required to present their research at a fall public symposium, even if they are not in residence at UCSB at the time. Some funding is available for travel to UCSB for the fall symposium. Fellows will be asked to confirm their availability to participate in the four meetings and the fall symposium before the fellowship is awarded. Fellows will create a short public scholarship video for the Center for Feminist Future’s The Pedagogy Lab on their research project . Willingness to share research, receive and give feedback to a cross-disciplinary group of health researchers is an important part of this fellowship. 

Eligibility

• Students in any graduate program at UCSB are eligible to apply.
• Students may not hold more than one fellowship at a time.
• Students should not be otherwise employed at UCSB during fellowship.
• In order to receive summer fellowship funding, students must meet the following registration requirements. Registration in at least eight units in spring quarter is sufficient for a graduate student to receive summer funding. For students not enrolled in the preceding spring quarter, eligibility to receive fellowship funding during the months of July, August, and early September requires registration in at least eight units in the upcoming fall quarter or at least four units in Summer Session.

Selection Criteria

1. Relevance of the project to gender, race, and heath
2. Project’s engagement with issues of heath justice or health equity
3. Quality of the scholarship
4. Clarity of the project description
5. Good academic standing
6. A breadth and balance of the disciplines represented by the recipients 
7. Equity of fellowship support among the candidates 

Application

Please submit the following in one pdf document to this email address: Gender_.hvoc65no0k8x3bu3@u.box.com

The fellowship committee will not be able to see your email’s message, only the pdf attached. Please make sure to keep within the word count limit. Contact jocelynstitt@ucsb.edu with questions about how your project might be supported by the fellowship or any other questions. 

• 500 word description of your thesis/dissertation as a whole so the committee has a context for your larger project.  
• 750-1000 word description of the summer project proposed, including a timeline for the work to be completed between June 23- September 4, 2025
• CV, with the name of a faculty member we can contact regarding your application highlighted
• Unofficial transcript