Faculty members who are mentoring students will co-apply for the grant with the student.  Applications are submitted during the student’s sophomore year, with funding beginning in the student’s junior year. Nominations must be received by May 1st preceding the student’s junior year.  Grantees will be selected by the Board of the American Society of Criminology, upon the recommendation of the Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Scholar/Mentor Research Grants.

Grantees receive $10,000 in research scholarship funds, which is divided into awards of $5,000 for the student during his or her Junior and Senior years of undergraduate study.  Grantees also receive a grant of up to $1,500 to support travel to the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology during November of the student’s Senior year of undergraduate study. At that annual meeting, the student will present a research paper (developed during in the previous year) under auspices of a faculty mentor (who may be a co-author). Awardees begin their work on the paper during the junior year of study.

ASC will allocate up to 12 awards, with up to 4 awards given each year for the next three years.

Students selected for this award will receive:
 •    $5,000 research grant each year for the junior and senior year of study
 •    Up to $1,500 travel grant to attend the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology
 •    Guidance in the development of a research paper on a topic in criminology
 •    Guidance in the scholarly area of criminology
 •    Guidance in the application process for graduate school

The mentoring relation is expected to involve the following areas:
 •   Mentoring the student in a collaborative research project that will yield a paper presented at the ASC meeting in the student’s
     senior year.
 •   Mentoring the student in the field of criminology during the student’s two years of funding.  This might involve weekly meetings,
     readings/independent study courses, courses, work on other projects, or attendance at local criminology conferences.
 •   Mentoring of the student that will facilitate the student’s preparation for and successful application to graduate study in
     criminology/criminal justice.
 

The proposal to ASC for the award is a collaborative effort.  The primary criteria for allocating the awards are (1) the student’s potential for completing doctoral work in criminology and (2) the quality of the proposed mentoring relationship.

In this proposal, the faculty member should do the following:
 •   Provide a written recommendation for why the potential grantee has the academic potential and career aspirations to successfully
     complete graduate study in criminology (or criminal justice) leading the student into an academic (or related) career.
 •   Provide student transcripts and any other supporting materials demonstrating the student’s promise as a scholar (these may include ACT, SAT, and/or GRE scores).
 •   Provide a description of the proposed collaborative research project that will result in a presentation at the ASC meeting in the
     student’s senior year.
 •   Provide a description of other mentoring activities and proposed contact with the student over his or her junior and senior years.

In this proposal, the student should do the following:

 •   Provide a personal statement on his or her career goals in criminology.
 •   Provide a statement on how the Mentoring Grant would enable the student to focus more time on his or her academic work and better achieve his or her career goals (e.g., lessen time spent on a job).

Nomination proposals should be sent by May 1, 2008 to:

Orlando Rodriguez , Chair
Minority Scholar/Mentor Committee
Sociology/Anthropology Department
Fordham University
Dealy 408A
441 E. Fordham Rd.
Bronx, NY 10458
(718) 817-3867
orrodriguez@fordham.edu

2007
Thuy Huynh, University of Colorado
Mentor: Hillary Potter

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2006
Le' Deana Brown, Butler University
Mentor:  Tamara Leech

Cassandra St. Vil, Northeastern University
Mentor:  Geoffry Ward
 

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2005
None Selected

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2004
Will Collins, University of Maryland
Mentor:  Shawn Bushway

Alisha Dobbins, Eastern Kentucky University
Mentor:  David May

Wander Falette, SUNY-Albany
Mentor:  Dennis Sullivan

Courtney Sellers, Rutgers University
Mentor:  Bonita Veysey