The UW Disability Studies Program is pleased to offer three scholarly awards:
Dennis Lang Award for UW undergraduate and graduate students (up to $500)
Harlan Hahn Student Scholarship for UW undergraduate and graduate students ($500 – $5000)
Harlan Hahn Research Award for UW faculty and staff ($500-$5000)
Student proposals will be considered for both the Lang and Hahn scholarship awards, but students cannot win both awards in the same academic year. All deadlines are Monday May 13th by 5 p.m.
STUDENT AWARDS
The Dennis Lang Award and the Harlan Hahn Scholarship are merit-based monetary awards for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Washington who demonstrate promise in the field of Disability Studies.
Applicants should have:
(The Lang award is for students who “embody Dennis’ spirited commitment to and academic excellence in field of Disability Studies”; the Hahn award is for scholarship in the field of disability studies.)
Award funds may be used for:
To apply, please submit:
Please make sure all materials are contained in one document. Submit to the dropbox at
https://catalyst.uw.edu/collectit/dropbox/summary/kjohnson/27375 by 5:00 PM May 13.
FACULTY & STAFF AWARDS
The Harlan Hahn Research Award is for full or part-time UW faculty and staff for projects that include, but are not limited to:
To apply, please submit:
Please make sure all materials are contained in one document. Submit to
the dropbox at
https://catalyst.uw.edu/collectit/dropbox/summary/kjohnson/27375 by 5:00
PM May 13.
All award notifications should be made by June 1. Questions? Contact Kurt Johnson, kjohnson@uw.edu.
The number and amount of the awards will depend on the quality and quantity of applications.
Faculty, staff and students from any of the three UW campuses are eligible to apply.
Recipients will be expected to lead a Disability Studies brownbag
discussion or other public presentation and provide a short written
summary of how the grant funds were spent before the end of the academic
year following the award.
For all awards, activities must be completed by the end of the 2013-2014
academic year.
Past performance under these awards will be taken into consideration
when assessing an application by a previous award winner.
The University of Washington’s Disability Studies Program Harlan Hahn
Endowment Fund was established by the generous gift of the late Harlan
D. Hahn, disability activist and political scientist. For more
information on the Harlan Hahn Fund, please see:
http://www.washington.edu/news/2010/04/22/a-big-donation-and-a-new-administrative-home-for-disability-studies/
The Dennis Lang Award was established by the generous support of the
University’s Disability Studies community. For more information on the
Dennis Lang Award, please see:
http://www.washington.edu/news/2008/11/20/dennis-lang-the-activist-behind-disability-studies-at-