FellowshipsGraduate Fellowship

Graduate Fellowship

Engage in a graduate fellows community of practice.

The SNF Paideia Program invites applications for a one-year graduate fellowship each spring. Fellows can gain experience teaching and advising undergraduate students, designing and implementing student-oriented dialogue programming, and working professionally as part of a multi-disciplinary team to achieve academic program goals. Graduate fellows receive a $7,000 stipend.

 

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(l to r) 2024-2025 Graduate Fellows Franklin Eccher, Stephanie Acquaye, Comfort Sampong, Nainika Dinesh, and Postdoctoral Fellow Kat Traut

Apply for a graduate fellowship

Applications will be available in early April through this link here and are due by 12 noon on Monday, April 27, 2026. You may contact Leah Anderson (leahand[at]upenn.edu) with questions.

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Eligible graduate students:

  • are enrolled through May 2026 in a graduate degree program at the University of Pennsylvania;
  • have a demonstrated interest in SNF Paideia’s mission and values;
  • are available to participate in a graduate fellow orientation and training in August 2025;
  • have approval of their graduate program or advisor to take on this fellowship; and
  • are eligible to receive additional pay through the University.
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What to expect

This is a part-time fellowship. Each fellow can expect to contribute roughly 10-15 hours per month to fellowship work, beginning in August 2025 and concluding in early May 2026. Each fellow’s responsibilities will be finalized prior to accepting the fellowship. Graduate fellows may:

  • Serve as a teaching assistant for one of three half-credit SNF Paideia undergraduate fellows proseminars by attending weekly, 1.5 hour class sessions, providing student advising, grading assignments, supporting course logistics, and teaching one or more sessions of the class. Proseminars meet weekly in the fall semester.
  • Contribute to dialogue workshops and events; advise student dialogue projects; develop dialogue resources; and/or help create and implement evaluation tools for dialogue events and resources.
  • Mentor and build community among students involved in co-curricular programming, fostering their leadership development; act as a liaison between SNF Paideia and campus partners to strengthen collaboration and align initiatives.
  • Serve on grant review committees, evaluating applications and providing input on decisions.
  • Other projects, as determined in consultation with the SNF Paideia staff team.

 

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