We’re excited to share the establishment of the Schwartz-Shea and Yanow Dissertation Fellowship for Interpretive Research in the Department of Political Science at the University of Utah, endowed by Professor Emerita Peregrine Schwartz-Shea. This fellowship celebrates her influential collaboration with Professor Dvora Yanow (Emerita, CSU East Bay) and provides essential funding for dissertation projects that employ interpretive methodologies and methods in empirical research.
Reflecting on her career, Schwartz-Shea notes, “Over the 36 years that I taught in the poli sci department at Utah, I always felt supported as my research and teaching interests evolved…My hope is that other departments across the discipline will support methodological pluralism by teaching graduate courses in interpretive methodologies and methods and by providing monetary support for students whose dissertations address questions using those methods.”
This fellowship is a meaningful step towards supporting interpretive research and promoting methodological diversity within political science.
Learn more about the fellowship here.