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The WCAS/TGS Teaching Fellowship recognizes two graduate students who display exceptional teaching skills at Northwestern.

Fellows receive a $2,000 stipend to teach a WCAS First-Year Seminar in their departments during Spring quarter 2020. Fellows are mentored and supported by a designated faculty mentor and Searle staff prior to and during the course.

The WCAS/TGS Teaching Fellowship is made possible with funding from The Graduate School and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Eligibility

  • Fellows are required to have completed the Searle Center's Teaching Certificate Program OR be enrolled in the program during the year of the fellowship.
  • Applicants' home department must be in the Weinberg College of Arts and Science. 
  • Applicants' must be within the first through fifth year of their program. 
  • Applicants must receive approval from their department chair and/or director of graduate study to teach in their department.

The Searle Center does not schedule courses.

Application

Applications for the 2020-2021 WCAS/TGS Teaching Fellowship are now closed. Please check back in Fall 2021 to apply for the 2021-2022 application.

The application consists of: 

1. An online application.

2. Application Materials. Please email application materials in a single email to Kate Flom Derrick (kate.flomderrick@northwestern.edu): 

  • Current CV
  • Teaching evaluations or other evidence of teaching effectiveness (e.g. CTECs) 
  • Proposal for a First-Year Seminar
  • Teaching Statement (no longer than two pages)

3. Additional material

  • You must also arrange for a letter of nomination from a faculty member. In the letter, faculty must commit to serving as your teaching mentor for the year of the fellowship, providing guidance and feedback on the development of your First-Year Seminar. Please arrange to have letters emailed to Kate Flom Derrick (kate.flomderrick@northwestern.edu).

 


 

Past Fellows

2019-20: Felipe Costa Neves (Spanish & Portuguese) and Azadeh Safaeian (Comparative Literary Studies) 

2018-19: Anna Michelson (Sociology) and Maziyar Faridi (Comparative Literary Studies) 

2017-18: William Cochran (Philosophy) and Lorien Elleman (Psychology) 

2016-17: Sabrina Jaromin (Comparative Literary Studies) and Sidra Hamidi (Political Science) 

2015-16: Matilda Stubbs (Anthropology)

2014-15: Gözde Erdeniz (Political Science) and Almita Miranda (Anthropology)

2013-14: Desirée Weber (Political Science)

2012-13: Faith Kares (Anthropology)

2011-12: Connor Doak (Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Allen Rosenthal (Psychology)

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