Formation of Knowledge Thesis and Dissertation Awards

Honoring the best student scholarship on any thesis:

  • related to societal and historical influences shaping the formation of knowledge

  • that has implications for the formation of knowledge and interrogates traditional ways of knowing

  • most effectively crosses and bridges disciplinary and divisional boundaries in its research, argument, and conclusions

Open to UChicago students graduating at the end of the 2021-22 academic year and
judged by a panel of Institute Faculty.

For information and application processes, visit here

In the Media

Tocqueville’s America Revisited, Part 1

October 14, 2016

News

“What do you know?”: A Course Work Feature on KNOW 40200 in the University of Chicago Magazine

July 05, 2016

Classicist Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer and microbiome expert Jack Gilbert question scientific knowledge.
Announcements

Jennifer Pitts on Empires, Barbarians, and the Law of Nations

April 20, 2016

Jennifer Pitts will deliver the 2016 Nicholson Faculty Lecture on Thursday, May 5th at 4:30 PM in Classics 110. A reception will follow.