Selected Awards and Fellowships

2023 Swenson/Kierkegaard Graduate Student Fellowship

This endowment provides a semester of financial support without teaching responsibilities to one or two graduate students at the dissertation writing stage of their career. Lillian Swenson, wife of David Swenson, the Department Chair from 1935-40, founded the endowment, by a bequest in memory of her husband's lifelong dedication to the study of the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard. 

2020, 2021 

Tom Lapic Memorial Fellowship in Philosophy and Social Justice

This fellowship is awarded by the UMN philosophy department to graduates students who have demonstrated exceptional potential in their field. The fellowship supports a research project that promises to illuminate a challenge to social justice facing our society, and to suggest practical steps to meet that challenge. 

2021 

Norman Olav Dahl Fellowship

This UMN fellowship provides summer funding to a full-time graduate student working towards a graduate degree (ABD status), in good standing, who demonstrates exceptional potential in their field. (declined)

2015-16 

Graduate Research Fellowship 

The GRF is awarded by the CSULB faculty to students who show potential for success in scholarly and creative activity and an interest in advanced study.