Reach out to fellowships@wes about the Beinecke Scholarship by January 10, 2025!
The Beinecke Scholarship provides $35,000 toward a PhD for students in the humanities or social sciences or a MFA for arts students. You must apply for a nomination through Wesleyan during the winter of your junior year in order to be considered for this scholarship at the national level. (You can read about recent recipients in the Wesleyan Connection (Zubaida Bello ’22 and Katerina Ramos-Jordán ’21).
The program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study (there are no geographic restrictions on the use of the scholarship and recipients are allowed to supplement the award with other scholarships, assistantships and research grants).
The Beinecke Scholarship Program seeks students who:
Demonstrate superior standards of intellectual ability, scholastic achievement, and personal promise during their undergraduate career.
Plan to enter a research- or creative-focused master’s or doctoral program in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. In most cases this will be a PhD or MFA, rather than a terminal academic Masters degree. (NOTE: Students in the social sciences who plan to pursue graduate study in neuroscience or clinical psychology should not apply for a Beinecke Scholarship.)
Additionally, to be eligible the student must:
Be a college junior pursuing a bachelor’s degree during the 2023-2024 academic year. “Junior” means a student who plans to continue full-time undergraduate study and who expects to receive a baccalaureate degree between December 2024 and August 2025.
Be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national from American Samoa or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Have a documented history of being eligible to receive need-based financial aid during their undergraduate years, with a slight preference for Pell Grant recipients.
If you would like to apply, read more about the Beinecke Scholarship and Wesleyan’s campus process for nominating students at the link. Then write to fellowships@wesleyan.edu with your name, major, a resume, and a short description of your graduate study plans. You should reach out with your interest by January 10, 2025 to be considered for the nomination.
If you’re interested but not eligible, this might be your sign to explore the Office of Fellowships website over the break to see what other awards might be of interest to you. Many of them have different rules around citizenship or financial aid status.
