Medical Humanities Research Fellowship
Are you ready to bring your vision for a medical humanities research project to life? The Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative is funding undergraduate ($1,000), graduate ($2,000), and medical students’ ($2,000) individual or partnered research in the medical humanities. Projects may span the humanities, arts, social sciences health, medicine, nursing, public policy, foreign service, and other STEM fields. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Ethics
- Narrative medicine
- Literature and medicine
- History of medicine
- Medical anthropology and sociology
- Cultural studies
- Visual and performing arts
These projects can be part of a paper, thesis, capstone, dissertation, or independent research/creative initiatives. To be considered, the following must be submitted to medicalhumanities@georgetown.edu by October 31st:
- 250-500 word description of research questions and work plan
- 8-10 annotated works cited (can include creative models)
- 100 word description of the intended outcomes/deliverables (thesis, creative project, publication)
- 250 word description of the skills and experiences that qualify you to undertake this research
- A faculty mentor’s name and role in your proposed project and a letter of commitment from the mentor
Students can see past research projects here
