The Marcus Bach Fellowships for Graduate Students in the Humanities are awarded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to support the completion of an MFA project or doctoral dissertation.
The Marcus Bach Fellowships are made possible by a bequest from the estate of Dr. Marcus Bach. Dr. Bach received a doctorate from The University of Iowa in 1942 in Speech and Dramatic Arts (now the Department of Communication Studies and the Department of Theatre Arts). (For more information on Dr. Bach, please see the Brigham Young University web site devoted to Marcus Bach.)
The fellowship’s goal is to foster intercultural communication and/or the understanding of diverse philosophies and religious perspectives, and projects in this area are the most appropriate proposals. Awardees must also show an awareness of the specific ideas and research of Dr. Bach.
Applications for the 2009-10 fellowships will be accepted between October 1 and November 28, 2008. The application form is available here.
Awards for 2008 - 09
Crystal Ann Gauger, a student in the School of Art and Art History, has been awarded a year-long fellowship to use as she completes her dissertation, tentatively titled, “Transcending History: The Religious Paintings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.” June Melby, a student in the Non-Fiction Writing Program of the Department of English, has been awarded a year-long fellowship to support the completion of her MFA thesis, a memoir titled, Little House on the Astroturf. Each award includes a $17,000 fellowship and a $1,000.00 tuition/fees scholarship.
Awards for 2007-08
Two awards were made for 2007-2008. Nicole Buscemi, a student in the Department of English, will use her award to complete her doctoral dissertation, Diagnosing Narratives: Illness, the Case History, and Victorian Fiction. Anita T. Gaul, a student in the Department of History, will use her Bach Fellowship to complete her dissertation, Bishop John Ireland’s Catholic Colonization Project and the Formation of Rural Ethnic Parishes on the Minnesota Frontier, 1876-1905.
Awards
for 2006-07
Four awards were made for 2006-07, each providing a one-semester
fellowship of $7,500 and a $500 tuition scholarship. Mamadou
Badiane, a student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese,
is writing a dissertation comparing Negrismo and Négritude. Caroline
Campbell,
a student in the Department of History, will use her award
to travel to France to continue her study of women members
of the French nationalist group the Croix de Feu. Brett
Gaul, a student in the Department of Philosophy, is exploring
the ways in which Augustine's philosophy was related to the
dominant pagan philosophies of his day. Ben
Otto, a student in the English Department's Non-Fiction
Writing Program will document the civil war currently occurring
in Nepal in a book-length study.
Awards for 2005-06
The first three Bach Awards were made for 2005-2006. David
Puderbaugh, a student in the School of Music, received
an award to complete a study of the Estonian National Song
Festivals in 1938 and 1947, exploring the intersections of
art and politics. Carla Carlargé, a student
in the Department of French and Italian received an award
to complete her thesis exploring alternative discourses of
fundamentalism in literary works by authors from four Arabic-speaking
countries of the Mediterranean basin, and Andy Douglas,
a student in the Non-Fiction Writing Program, received an
award to complete a memoir of his life as a monk in Asia after
a childhood in the US.
Questions: Please contact Carolyn Lewis
updated June 2008