RGK Center Summer Fellowship Program
Join graduate students from around the country to critically examine issues in the nonprofit sector and to work on your own research in nonprofit management, volunteerism, international civil society, social entrepreneurship and philanthropic studies.
Under the direction of Dr. Peter Frumkin, students participate in an intensive four week seminar that culminates in the completion of papers for the RGK Center's working papers series. Students are expected to submit a draft research paper that they would like to refine and prepare for academic publication during the summer program.
PhD and Masters-level graduate students considering doctoral work are invited to apply for the RGK Center’s 2010 Summer Fellowship Program:
Program Details
- Dates: June 1 - June 25, 2010
- Application process is competitive and takes into consideration the academic potential of the student and the working paper topic
- $3,000 stipends are provided to each Summer Fellow
- Housing near the UT Austin campus is provided by the RGK Center
- No course credit is provided
- Application Deadline: March 5, 2010
2010 Application (download form)
RGK Center Fellows Recognized
2009 ARNOVA Emerging Scholar Award
John Ronquillo
The ARNOVA Emerging Scholar Award is designed to help develop the next generation of scholars, foster dissemination of research into practice, and enhance practitioner involvement in the creation of usable knowledge. The program provides funds to enable students and new scholars to attend the 38th Annual ARNOVA Conference.
"I'm grateful for my time as a summer doctoral fellow at the RGK Center so that I could develop one of the papers that eventually helped me be recognized as an ARNOVA Emerging Scholar.”
ARNOVA Best Poster Award
Jasmine McGinnis
“Winning this award has helped me make the decision that this is a worthwhile research agenda and I will be submitting this paper to a journal in the next few weeks.”
Paper accepted to Public Administration Review
Rebecca Nesbit
Nesbit, Rebecca and David Reingold, "Soldiers to Citizens: The Link Between Military Service and Volunteering" Public Administration Review, forthcoming
A draft of this paper is available below.
Former Fellows launch Third Sector Network blog
Third Sector Network: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on all things nonprofit, philanthropic and beyond.
The contributors of the Third Sector Network blog were all part of the second inception of the RGK Center’s Summer Fellowship in June of 2009 and have created this blog as an extension of the crucible of ideas incubated during their fellowship.
RGK Center Summer Fellows class of 2009
NAME |
UNIVERSITY |
PAPER |
Erica Coslor |
University of Chicago |
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Sondra Barringer |
University of Arizona |
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Olena Verbenko |
University of Chicago |
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Lindsey McDougle |
University of San Diego |
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Tamitha Walker |
Rutgers University |
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Jasmine McGinnis |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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John Ronquillo |
University of Georgia |
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RGK Center Summer Fellows class of 2008
NAME |
UNIVERSITY |
PAPER |
Rebecca Nesbitt |
Indiana University Bloomington |
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Celeste Benson |
University of Wisconsin at Madison |
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Helen Liu |
Indiana University - Bloomington |
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Kristen Hopewell |
University of Michigan |
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Evgeny Firsov |
Harvard University |
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Christopher Gauthier |
University of Michigan |
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Lindsey Peterson |
Ohio State University |
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