Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Professor Emerita, University of Utah has endowed the “Schwartz-Shea and Yanow Dissertation Fellowship for Interpretive Research in the Department of Political Science.” The Fellowship honors her decades-long collaboration with Professor Dvora Yanow (Emerita, California State University, Hayward [East Bay]) and provides funds to support dissertation projects that employ interpretive methodologies and their associated methods in the conduct of empirical research.

“Over the 36 years that I taught in the poli sci department at Utah, I always felt supported as my research and teaching interests evolved from rational choice, game theoretical approaches to those of interpretive social science. My hope is that other departments across the discipline will support methodological pluralism by teaching graduate courses in interpretive methodologies and methods and by providing monetary support for students whose dissertations address questions using those methods.”

To learn more about the fellowship, click here.