Fellowships

Gallatin students are awarded a variety of prestigious national fellowships and awards every year. The links below will direct you to the programs’ Web sites, where you will find information about the fellowship and scholarships and how to apply.

Fullbright Awards

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. It was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and is sponsored by the United States Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Gallatin student awarded Fulbrights include:

Rachel Hsiung (BA ’11), who received a Fulbright in 2012 to conduct research in Brazil. Hsiung was inspired by her personal experience in combat sports to focus her Gallatin concentration on gender and traditionally male-dominated sports, combining sociology, economics and gender studies. She plans to use the Fulbright to study gender and domestic violence in Brazil, focusing on the effect of combat sports on reinforcing or challenging traditional gender roles.

Previous winners include

Udall Scholars

The U.S. Congress established the Udall Foundation in 1992 to honor Morris K. Udall's 30 years of service in the U.S. House of Representatives. Scholarships are offered in three categories: students who are committed to careers related to the environment; Native American and Alaska Native students committed to careers related to tribal public policy; and Native American and Alaska Native students committed to Native health care.
There have been three Gallatin Udall Scholars since 2009, including:

Senior Liliana Astiz (2012), who is focusing her studies on changing global environments. She was one of 40 students chosen to be a Student Freedom Rider in 2011. The students joined the original Freedom Riders in retracing the original route of hundreds of black and white Americans across the South in violation of Jim Crow laws in 1961. The event, organized by the PBS series American Experience, marked the 50th anniversary of the historic journeys. A 2009 Gates Millennium Scholar, Astiz worked as a student organizer in New York and founded the statewide student action group Students Against Hydrofracking.

The other Udall Scholars are:

• Michael Sandmel, 2011
• Katherine Fritz, 2009

Truman Scholars

The Truman Scholarship Foundation recognizes college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in the public service; and to provide them with financial support for graduate study, leadership training, and fellowship with other students who are committed to making a difference through public service.

Stephanie Baker, a 2010 Truman scholar, took a semester off from Gallatin in 2008 to work as a field organizer for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. She was an active member of the NYU Civic Team and studied human rights at Gallatin.

Humanity in Action Fellowship

Humanity in Action is an international educational organization that educates, inspires and connects a global network of students, young professionals and established leaders committed to promoting human rights, diversity and active citizenship—in their own communities and around the world. Separate programs take place for five weeks every summer in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, and Warsaw.
Winners include:

• Anna Duensing, 2012
  
• Isaac Rowlett, 2009
  
  

Fashion Scholarship Fund

The Fashion Scholarship Fund is a national not-for-profit association consisting of influential members of the fashion community, dedicated to promoting education of the fashion arts and business by granting scholarships to talented students and facilitating internships, mentorships and career programs.
Recent winners include:

• Thulasi Sivalingam, 2012
  
• Allison Becker, 2012
  
• Kimberlee M. Fuerth, 2012
  
• Elizabeth Mantel, 2012
  
• Genevieve Cenower, 2011
  
• Sarah Ferguson, 2011
  
• Celia Reingold, 2011
  
  

The Newington-Cropsey Award

In partnership with the Gallatin School, the Newington-Cropsey Foundation invites undergraduates as well as students in the masters program to apply for its annual fellowship for emerging artists and scholars. The fellowship gives students a unique opportunity to participate in seminars, study trips and public forums where they can present and develop their own work, while building crucial connections within the artistic and academic world. In addition to intellectual support, the fellowship includes access to the library at the Newington-Cropsey Academy of the Arts in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, where fellows are assigned their own desk space. Recent Newington-Cropsey Fellows include:

• Andrew J. Marotta
  
• Nicholas Morgan
  
• Miriam Tobin
  
• Desiree Mitton
  
• Kwesi Cameron
  
• Yadira De La Rivera
  
• Marcus D. Harvey
  
• Cornelius Jones, Jr.
  
• Adina WiseCyzar Marasigan Arca II
  
  

Other select awards and fellowships, and their Gallatin recipients, include:

The Freeman-Asia Scholarship (Melanie Erlich, 2008)
The Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute Fellow (Tamara Davidson, 2010)
The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship (Alysha Casnellie, 2011-2012)
The NYU Max Goldstein prize (Matt Nolin, 2009)

For more information about available fellowships and awards, please visit NYU’s Student National Scholarship Competitions page, or contact Gallatin’s Office of Academic Advising.