HDS Student Named 2017 Newcombe Fellow

Jennifer Quigley, a ThD candidate, has been named one of 21 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2017 at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

The Newcombe Fellowship is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. Each Fellow will receive a 12-month award of $25,000 to support their final year of dissertation work. 

"I am grateful for the opportunity that the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship provides to dedicate the next year to research, travel, and writing as I finish my dissertation," said Quigley.

Quigley is completing her dissertation, titled Divine Accounting: Theo-economic Rhetoric in the Letter the Philippians, at Harvard Divinity School. The dissertation investigates divine-human financial rhetoric in Paul’s letter to the Philippians and in some of its later interpreters.

Funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the Fellowship was created in 1981 and has supported just over 1,200 doctoral candidates, most of them now noted faculty and thought leaders in their fields. The Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences.