PRISM Research Scholars Summer Program

Mar 30, 2020

The PRISM Research Scholars program supports current College students engaged in advanced undergraduate research.  The program aims to promote substantive, faculty-directed summer research that advances scholarly research skills, including research design, execution, and dissemination, in targeted Social Science, Arts, and Humanities disciplines.  

Application deadline: Monday, April 27th, 2020

Grant amount: $5000 research grant (paid as stipend)

Duration: ~400 hours of research over a 10-week period during the summer

  • Open to the following majors:
    • Anthropology
    • Art History
    • Cinema and Media Studies
    • Comparative Human Development
    • English Language and Literature
    • English and Creative Writing
    • History
    • Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities (IRUM)
    • Linguistics
    • Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
    • Philosophy 
    • Political Science
    • Psychology 
    • Sociology

Applications will also be considered from the following majors:

  • Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Comparative Literature
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Global Studies
  • Jewish Studies
  • Medieval Studies

Learn more and apply here: https://ccrf.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-research/prism-program.

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