2008-09 Summary Dissertation Fellowships: 65 Postdoctoral Fellowships: 20 Publication Grants: 12 Total Fellowships: 97 Women of Color: 20% Eligible Applicants: 1,116 Total Awards: $1,997,000
American Fellowships support women scholars completing doctoral dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research, or finishing research for publication. Recipients must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

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The oldest and largest of the AAUW Educational Foundation's fellowship and grant programs, the American Fellowships program dates from 1888 when Vassar graduate Ida Street, a pioneer in the field of early American Indian history, received $350 to pursue a graduate degree in education at the University of Michigan.

Since that time, American Fellows have continued to make important contributions to scholarship and society:

• Popular psychologist Joyce Brothers (1952) launched a public career that has spanned five decades.
• Late critical essayist, short-story writer, and novelist Susan Sontag (1957) wrote about modern culture.
• Elena Castedo (1972) won the 1991 Book of the Year award in her native Chile for the novel Paradise, which topped the best-seller list for several months.
• Late Challenger astronaut Judith Resnick (1975) received a fellowship to complete her dissertation on chemical engineering.
• Several American Fellows served as college or university presidents, including Rhoda M. Dorsey (1953) at Goucher College, Hanna Holborn Gray (1954) at the University of Chicago, Marla Maples Dunn (1957) at Smith College, and Nannerl O. Keohane (1966) at Duke University.

The 2008-2009 American Fellows continue this legacy. To contribute to their fields and society, they are studying representations of Black Women's work in the Post-Reconstruction South, coronary heart disease, educational experiences of disadvantaged children and young adults, the role of multiple paternity in shark mating systems, and Mayan activism in Guatemala, among other projects.

The AAUW Educational Foundation thanks the following 2008-2009 American Fellowship panelists:Jane Carroll(NH), Chair, art history; Jessy Alexander (IL), biological sciences; Pamela Ansburg (CO), psychology; Laura Behling (MN), English language and literature; Mitali Das (CA), economics; Eleanor King (DC), anthropology; Jessica Lavariega Monforti (TX), political science; Karen Markin (RI), communications and journalism; Claire G. Moses (MD), history; Rocío Quispe-Agnoli (MI), foreign language and literature; Becky Ropers-Huilman (MN), education; and Sue Ann Taylor (DC), anthropology. Guest panelists included Wanda A. Alderman (MD), sociology; Nemata Blyden (DC), history; Beth Bullard (VA), music history; Marie-Claude E. Jipguep (DC), sociology; Diana Lipscomb (DC), biological sciences; Amy Mullin (MD), physical sciences; and Lucinda Peach (DC), philosophy and religion.