The ACSUS-ENDERS GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN CANADA-US RELATIONS
Application Deadline: 20 August 2024
Award Period: Academic Year 2024-2025
Grant Award: $5,000
Notification: 31 August 2024
Objectives:
To encourage in-depth inclusion of Canadian content in comparative research/projects that have policy relevance for Canada-U.S. relations as well as Canadian social, economic, political, security, and quality of life issues. Topics particularly relevant to Canada-U.S. relations include trade and economics, defense and security cooperation, border management, energy, softwood lumber, environment and natural resource management, and agriculture. Other topics include comparative urban planning, health care delivery, multicultural educational policies, environmental law, etc.
Eligibility:
Students in any discipline or professional school who are in the process of preparing a graduate thesis or doctoral dissertation related in substantial part to the study of Canada, Canada-U.S. relations or comparative policies in North America. Students must be US citizens or permanent residents.
Conditions:
- The student must be enrolled in a full-time masters or doctoral program at an institution in the United States;
- The student must present their research at an Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. meeting.
Application:
- CV
- one-page proposal outlining the thesis/dissertation project that states why research matches the fellowship;
- letter of support from the student’s thesis/dissertation chair
Criteria:
Successful applicants will be selected according to the following criteria:
- clarity of the proposal and its methodology;
- proposal’s potential contribution to the enhancement of the Canada-U.S. relationship or
to comparative policy making in North America (social, environmental, political); - strength of the letter of support
N.B. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Applications should be sent electronically to: info@acsus.org
Thomas O. Enders Endowment
The Thomas O. Enders Endowment is designed to encourage advanced scholarship on Canada-U.S. relations by funding fellowships for US scholars conducting research in Canada.
Tom Enders' special interests included political and economic policy, trade, and energy-- these are among the topics that the endowment supports as a means of contributing to improved mutual understanding between the United States and Canada. Tom Enders US Ambassador whose life, work, and service, in particular as U.S. Ambassador to Canada and Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, strengthened the political and economic links as well as the friendship between the United States and Canada.
2024 Award
Clea Harrelson, a PhD student in Anthropology and Environmental Policy at the University of Maine, has been awarded the 2024 ACSUS-Enders Graduate Fellowship. Her project is titled "Bridging the Lobster Industries of Maine and Eastern Canada." Her fieldwork will consist of carrying out participant observation and semi-structured interviews with fishers and fisheries associations in the Bay of Fundy region, such as Fundy North, to understand their needs and interests and help establish collaborative strategies for resilience.
2023 Award
Devan Blackwell, a PhD Candidate in Education Management at Hampton University, has been awarded the 2023 ACSUS-Enders Graduate Fellowship. Under this fellowship, Devan will be conducting fieldwork in Montreal for his project titled “Une lentille civique (A Civic Lens): Film Use as a Pedagogical Tool for Civic Education in Middle School Social Studies.”
2022 Award
Samantha Farquhar has been awarded the 2022 ACSUS-Enders Graduate Fellowship. Samantha is a PhD student in Integrated Coastal Sciences at East Carolina University, and is completing a project on "The impact of indigenous-led commercial fisheries development on Arctic food systems."