Meet the Director:
Cynthia R. Daniels WS '81, Ph.D.
Dr. Daniels, a 1981 Women's Studies Fellow, directs the Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship and is also Department Chair of Political Science at Rutgers University.
The Charlotte W. Newcombe
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
MORE ABOUT THE NEWCOMBE FELLOWSHIP
AND THE NEWCOMBE FOUNDATION
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation administers the Newcombe Fellowship competition at the request of and in consultation with the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, a private foundation created under the will of Philadelphia philanthropist Mrs. Newcombe, who died in 1979. In addition to the Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships, the Newcombe Foundation funds three college scholarship programs: for physically disabled students, for returning women students, and for minority or economically disadvantaged students attending a small number of colleges related to the Presbyterian church.
Since the first round of competition in 1981, more than 1,000 Newcombe Fellows have been named. Fellows from early years of the program are now senior faculty members at major research universities and selective liberal arts colleges, curators and directors at significant scholarly archives, and leaders and policymakers at nonprofit organizations and in cabinet-level government agencies. In the past decade, national honors such as the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences have been accorded to more than a dozen Newcombe Fellows—a number that will continue to grow as more and more Fellows enter the most productive phases of their careers.