Nancy du Bois, Emory Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School, has received the $10,000 Sibley Fellowship for studies in Greek during the 1995-96 academic year.
"This is the first time an Emory graduate student has won this fellowship from Phi Beta Kappa," said Donald Verene, du Bois' dissertation director and Charles Howard Candler professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy. "She's an excellent student doing very original work in philosophy."
Du Bois, a 1990 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of the South, will devote the academic year to completing her dissertation, titled "The Kinship of Vico and Plato: A Metaphysics Compatible with Human Frailty." Du Bois also was one of three Emory students to attend the Yeats Summer Study Institute in Ireland on a scholarship, where she discovered another angle to her dissertation. "I'm hoping to have enough time to write on Vico and Yeats," she said. "Yeats' ideas of history help to amplify what Vico is doing."
The Sibley Fellowship, of which du Bois is the 47th recipient, was established with funds bequeathed to Phi Beta Kappa in the will of Isabelle Stone.
In 1996, the Sibley Fellowship will be offered for studies in French. Candidates must be unmarried women between 25 and 35 years old who have completed their doctoral degree or have fulfilled all the requirements of the doctorate except the dissertation. They must be planning to devote full-time work to their project during the fellowship year beginning in September 1996. Further information and application forms are available from the Sibley Fellowship Committee, 1811 Q Street NW, Washington, D.C., 20009.
-- Danielle Service