Alpine Fellowship: NYU Programme
The Alpine Fellowship partners with New York University to give two graduate students per year a cash bursary.
Who is this right for?
The ideal students “seek to explore the connections across and between humanistic fields of study, build bridges across fields of study in the humanities, and creatively synthesize the arts, literature, philosophy, and other humanistic fields of inquiry.”
The fellowship is open to any current graduate student at GSAS or Tisch. Selected students must still be matriculated at the time of the consortium. Strong candidates would include those whose work strives to build bridges across disparate fields of study in the humanities, while creatively synthesizing the arts, literature, philosophy, and other humanistic fields of inquiry.
How do I apply?
Applications are now open, to apply click the link below and follow the instructions.
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.
Our 2025 NYU Fellows were:
Isabelle Appleton
Isabelle Appleton is an MFA candidate in Fiction at NYU, where she is a Goldwater Fellow. Her writing has appeared in Joyland, Conjunctions, The New England Review, The Washington Square Review, Protean Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of NYU’s Thesis Research Award, and her work has been supported by the Ucross Foundation. She holds a BA in Religion from Vassar. Originally from St. Louis, she now lives in Brooklyn.
Pat Gonzalez
Patricia “Pat” Gonzalez is a PhD candidate of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at New York University. Their research intersects queer ecologies, sound studies and blue humanities with focus on Latin and North American rivers and the ways in which the environmental catastrophe can be witnessed amongst the nonhuman beings.
Ashlin Rakhra
Ashlin Rakhra is a PhD candidate in Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where her work focuses on health equity, community-based health programs, and access to culturally and linguistically inclusive care. Grounded in human-centered design, her research centers the lived experiences of underserved populations and seeks to use research as a tool for equity, empathy, and systems-level transformation. Her dissertation explores how trust shapes the way marginalized communities engage with healthcare. She is developing and validating a holistic, multi-level trust scale to better understand how trust functions within models that link clinical and community care in New York City.
Konstantine Vlasis
Konstantine Vlasis is a PhD Candidate in music and sound studies at NYU, a visiting music lecturer at Listaháskóli Íslands and a performing member of the percussion quartet, APEX Percussion. Vlasis explicitly builds his works upon pre-existing musical textures created by nonhuman entities, natural soundscapes, and environmental phenomena. His recent works expressly focus on art-science collaboration and have been supported by the Leifur Eiríksson Foundation, Fulbright, National Science Foundation, New York University and National Geographic. Vlasis is a PhD Candidate in music and sound studies at NYU, a visiting music lecturer at Listaháskóli Íslands and a performing member of the percussion quartet, APEX Percussion
Our 2024 NYU Fellows were:
Alperen Arslan
Alperen Arslan is an award-winning author and a PhD student in the Department of History at New York University, specializing in the History of Science, Technology, and International History. His prior work explored various subjects, including the history of climatology, marine biology and oceanography, human and animal plasticity, science and democracy, and the merits of multilingualism in science. Before moving to New York City, Alperen studied in Istanbul, London, and Vienna.
Logan Davis
Logan Davis is a nonfiction writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BA in creative writing from Whitman College and is currently finishing her MFA in Literary Reportage at NYU. Broadly speaking, she writes about people and places we have something to learn from—from death doulas and remote Italian winemakers to the insider, domestic knowledge of New York's handy-people and her very fascinating landlord.
Our 2023 NYU Fellows were:
Francesca Billington
Francesca Billington is a writer who is currently finishing her MFA in creative nonfiction at NYU. She writes about a range of subjects, including pharmaceutical advertising, criminal justice, and politics. She holds a BA in anthropology from Princeton.
Zac Easterling
Zac Easterling (they/them) is a Ph.D. candidate in New York University’s department of performance studies, specializing in black studies, critical philosophy, African American studies, gender studies, boxing technique, and US boxing history. In their dissertation, Stricken Together: Boxing & The Performance of Conflict/Violence they read the history of boxing, exemplified by a selection of fights and their historical circumstance, to elucidate the ontology of conflict and present it as a resource of violence mitigation.
Our 2022 NYU Fellows were:
Xavier Hadley
Xavier Hadley is a graduate student in NYU. Through his work as a poet, guitarist, and critical race scholar, Xavier seeks to illuminate the contemporary presence of historical feelings. Taking inspiration from poets like Harriette Mullen, Douglas Kearney, Audre Lorde, and Claudia Rankine among many others, Xavier and his work have received awards and critical recognition from Colorado State University, Lyrical Lemonade, the American Institute for Graphic Arts, and others.
Cat Sposato
Catherine “Cat” Sposato is a New York-based writer, editor, author, and podcaster who is originally from Passaic, New Jersey. She’s a Magazine Writing and Digital Storytelling Master’s student at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute out of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She has her B.A. in English and Political Science from Columbia College of Columbia University. A first-generation Colombian-American, Cat is passionate about exploring the nuances of popular culture and politics. Her work has been featured in NPR, V Magazine, VMAN, Outlander Magazine and Road to Sound.