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Dissertation Fellowship Program
The Wayne Morse Center, with the support of the Graduate School, awards two fellowships to Ph.D. candidates each academic year. Dissertation Fellows receive a tuition waiver and a stipend of $3,000 for one academic term, allowing them to focus on their dissertation resesarch and writing.
Applications were due January 20, 2012, for the 2012-13 academic year.
View the application requirements
Dissertation Fellows 2011-12:
Johanna Luttrell, Philosophy
“Gender, Alienation and Dignity in the Global Slums”
Luttrell’s dissertation explores the condition of female global poverty, and particularly women who live in the slums of “developing” countries. She departs from a traditional focus on distribution and recognition to explore issues of alienation and the oppression of women that result from the demands of global capitalism. She explores how alienation of women in slums is both created by globalization and supported by the exploitation of women and demands on their time by their roles as caregivers and workers. She suggests we need a more robust theory of human dignity, drawing from the current conversation on the “capabilities approach” and human rights approaches to economic development.
Luttrell lived and taught in the slums of Guayaquil, Ecuador, and studied in the Mexico maquiladora zone near the U.S. border. She graduated from DePaul University in 2006 in philosophy and English.
Clinton Sandvick, History
“Defining the Practice of Medicine: Law, Society and Medical Licensure from 1865 to 1915”
Sandvick examines the passage, enforcement and consolidation of medical licensing laws in the United States in the crucial era of 1865-1915. As part of the Progressive Era regulatory reforms, these laws sought to tame a chaotic medical field comprised of doctors advocating various medical therapies. Doctors worked to purge the medical field of frauds, charlatans and unorganized sectarians with licensing requirements and regulations. State medical boards prosecuted practitioners such as midwives, osteopaths, opticians and other healers. By eliminating unorganized practitioners and ending the medical free market, these actions laid the foundation for the reform of medical education and the framework of modern medicine.
Sandvick holds a B.A from Arizona State University. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Law and practiced law in California for seven years before returning to school.
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