The Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy 2026-2027 Fellowship Announcement & Application Form
The Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy is pleased to announce a competition for a limited number of Wolfe Graduate Fellowships for McGill graduate students in the Faculty of Arts whose thesis work reflects the themes of the Chair.
Wolfe Chair Mandate
The mandate of the Wolfe Chair is to conduct research, teach and perform public outreach regarding the intellectual foundations, nature and methods of scientific and technological innovation and to provide support to well-rounded students capable of making constructive contributions to debates surrounding science, technology, and society. The Chair is devoted to research that advances understanding of key scientific and technological concepts and examines the relationships among science, technology, and a broad range of social, ethical, political, and economic issues, practices and conditions.
We invite outstanding graduate students in the Faculty of Arts conducting research in areas directly related to the themes of the Wolfe Chair.
Preference will be given to students who are engaged in thesis or dissertation writing during the 2026-2027 academic year and especially to PhD students. To be eligible, students must be registered as full-time graduate students during the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years and to have fulfilled all dissertation/thesis proposal requirements for their department.
Wolfe Graduate Fellowship awardees will be expected to collaborate with other Fellows in their cohort and with the Wolfe Chair on the publication of an open-access collection of original works aimed at mobilizing the students’ own research and scholarship, in a format designed to reach non-academic audiences. The details and format of this co-authored publication will be decided collaboratively at the start of the Fall semester and will be based on the students’ professional goals and interests.
Applications should include:
- a curriculum vitae (please include all current and previous funding on your cv)
- a description of your thesis/dissertation (note: you are expected to reuse an existing written description, e.g., completed introduction chapter, your proposal, etc.)
- a letter of support from your thesis supervisor
Please send application materials to adr.arts [at] mcgill.ca (ADR) no later than Thursday, April 30, 2026 with the subject line “Wolfe Dissertation Fellowship 2026-2027”.
Note: Successful applicants will be required to report outcomes of the Fellowship to the Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies (Faculty of Arts) and to write a letter to the donor.