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Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies

A generous gift from Andrew Solomon '85 has enabled us to organize an annual competition for summer fellowships to support undergraduate research projects in sexuality studies, especially lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender studies. Stipend support of up to $5,000 is granted for 8-10 weeks of fulltime summer research. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are eligible to apply.  Preference will be given to those students, especially juniors, whose research is intended to contribute to their senior essays.

Applications are submitted through the Yale College Office of Fellowship Programs.  For more information on the Solomon Research Fellowships and application procedures, visit the OFP's Solomon Fellowship page.  (You must have a Yale netid to see it.) 

Congratulations to the 2012 Solomon Fellows:

  • Isabel Ortiz, JE 2014, English, Cross-Cultural Representations of Religion and Sexuality in the Animation Genre
  • Rebecca Suldan, ES 2013, WGSS, The Women's Action Coalition, the Lesbian Caucus, and Identity Politics in Third Wave Feminism
  • Erin Vanderhoof, ES 2013, WGSS, Race and Queer Identity in Cape Town, South Africa

2011 Solomon Fellows:

  • Joan Gass, MC 2012, WGSS, Transnational LGBTQ Movements in India.
  • Mara Dauphin, DC 2012, History, The Role of Publications in Building LGBTQ Communities in 20th Cent. America.
  • Katherine Lund, SM 2012, English, LGBT Family Portraits: A Senior Project in the Writing Concentration.
  • Peter Thompson, ES 2013, Religious Studies, An Ethnography of Epicentro: Centro Comunitario Gay de Lima Peru.

2010 Solomon Fellows:

  • Ben Bernard, SM 2011, History, A comparison of the historical background to the debates over PACS and gay marriage in France, Massachusetts, and Connecticut
  • Kiki Fehling, CC 2011, WGSS, Sexuality and sexual health among the LGBT elderly
  • Sam Schoenburg, SM 2011, Political Science, Analysis of the messaging strategies used by both sides in recent state referendum campaigns over marriage (drawing on polling and focus group data acquired by Freedom to Marry, New York City)
  • Seth (Sarah Beth) Weintraub, TD 2011, WGSS, A study of the effectiveness of social service programs for homeless transgender youth, using the records of the Ali Forney Center for LGBT homeless youth in New York City

2009 Solomon Fellows:

  • Alan Montes, "Psychological and Communal Support Needs of Latino LGBT Teens and Youth"
  • Rachel Schiff, "Transgender Legal Advocacy and Research: Exploring the Intersection of Legal Language and Civil Rights
  • Sophia Shapiro, C"Research on AIDS and Youth at Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York"

    Solomon Fellows 2009

2008 Solomon Fellows:

  • Adam Gardner, "(Re)Presenting Absence: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and the Archive of Loss"
  • Emily Hoffman, "A Study of Lesbian Performance in New York, San Francisco, and London"
  • Anna Wipfler, "LGBTQ Student Organizing at Yale in the 1970s and 1980s"

Solomon Fellows 2008