Application Checklist
- Completed Application - Personal Statement (maximum 2,000 words)
- Current Curriculum Vitae (including faculty responsibilities at TCU)
- Your signed form committing to continue teaching at a TCU
- Your signed form allowing AICF access to your enrollment and degree attainment data through the National Student Clearinghouse
- Official graduate transcripts, showing courses taken, dates of courses, and grades received
- The release form signed by your TCU president, allowing the necessary time to complete your dissertation and graduation requirements within the one-year fellowship.
- First letter from the TCU President indicating approval of research supporting the necessary release time to complete degree within one-year term of the Mellon Fellowship.
- Second letter from the TCU Academic Dean or Department Chair detailing the value of the applicant's doctoral work and degree will have on the institution.
- Third letter from the dissertation advisor or mentor that speaks to the importance of the applicant's work and ability of the applicant to complete their doctorate degree within one-year term of the Mellon Fellowship.
- If applicable, an additional fourth letter from a separate senior academic mentor indicating their role in the dissertation process.
- Completed dissertation proposal (if available) including research questions, theoretical framework, and methodology, along with certification of approval of proposal by degree granting institution.
- Detailed timeline outlining your plan to complete all requirements for graduation within one year of being awarded the fellowship.
- Documentation of approval, if required, by any and all Institutional Review Boards (graduate institution, tribal nation, and/or TCU)
- Certification of advancement to doctoral candidacy from graduate institution. To be considered, complete applications must include all of the above items