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04/30/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/30/2026 07:21

Two doctoral students selected as Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows

For pushing beyond disciplinary boundaries and conventional forms of scholarship, city and regional planning doctoral students Manoel Pereira Neto and Gauri Nagpal have been named Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Innovation Fellows.

The fellowship provides early-stage humanities and interpretive social sciences doctoral students pursuing innovative approaches to dissertation research with a $42,000 stipend for the fellowship year; up to $8,000 for project-related research, training, development and travel costs; and a $2,000 stipend for external mentorship.

Read more on the Graduate School website.

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