Amy Rothschild ’02 Named 2014 Newcombe Fellow by Woodrow Wilson Foundation

PRINCETON, NJ — The role of ethics and religion in shaping caste politics in early modern India; the evolution of American architects’ ethical and professional values throughout the twentieth century; slavery in the Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic—these are just a few of the topics being explored by this year’s recipients of Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships.

Among these recipients is Amy Rothschild ’02, a graduate of Yale Law School. Ms. Rothschild is now a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation, Victims and Veterans: Memory, Nationalism and Human Rights in Post-Conflict East Timor, looks at the effects of human rights on the politics of memory in post-conflict East Timor.

The Newcombe Fellowships are awarded to scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are completing dissertations related to questions of religious and ethical values. Selected from a pool of nearly 600 applicants, each of this year’s 22 Newcombe Fellows receives a 12-month award of $25,000. They come from 15 institutions nationwide and include scholars in architecture, anthropology, political science, sociology, history of medicine, religion and more.

Funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the Newcombe Fellowship was created in 1981. It remains the nation’s largest and most prestigious dissertation award in the field of ethical and religious values. Over the past three decades, the Newcombe Fellowship has supported just over 1,100 doctoral candidates, most of them now noted faculty members at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and abroad.

“It is a source of pride to the Newcombe Foundation and its Trustees that the Newcombe Fellowships have, over the past 33 years, helped to support the careers of so many impressive scholars, and that their work on ethics and religion has been significant in so many ways,” said Thomas N. Wilfrid, Executive Director of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation.