The Martin P. Levine Memorial Dissertation Fellowship was established to honor Martin Levine’s memory, who died of AIDS in 1993. It provides $3,000 to a graduate student (and $500 to an honorable mention) in the final stages of dissertation research and writing who is working on one (or more) of the following topics to which Levine devoted his career: 1) the sociology of sexualities, 2) the sociology of homosexuality (now LGBTQIA2S+ Studies), and 3) HIV/AIDS research. This fellowship is designed to help students complete their dissertations, and, as such, the committee evaluates dissertation proposals rather than completed work.
The fellowship committee is particularly interested in dissertation proposals that hold the potential to advance, broaden, or challenge existing theoretical, empirical, and methodological approaches in the sociology of sexualities. Many former awardees’ work has been described as “innovative,” “theoretically and methodologically sophisticated,” and “well-poised to make major contributions to the field of sociology of sexualities.”