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Scholarships
The Philip Stewart Scholarship
The Philip Stewart Scholarship, established in 2008, is awarded to upper-division students (juniors and seniors), with first preference given to students majoring in French or studying French; second preference is for students majoring in or studying Romance languages.
This scholarship was established by Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart in honor of her husband, Dr. Philip Stewart, upon his retirement from the faculty of Duke University.
Philip Stewart earned his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He joined the faculty of Duke’s Romance Studies Department in 1972 as associate professor and became professor of French and literature in 1980. His research interests in 17th and 18th century French led to the publication of Imitation and Illusion in the French Memoir-Novel, 1700-1750 (1969), Le Masque et la parole: le language de l’amour au XVIIIe sieclé (1973), an edition of Prévost’s Cleveland (1977), two books of critical readings entitled Rereadings: Eight Early French Novels (1984)) and Half-Told Tales: Dilemmas of Meaning in Three French Novels (1987), and a study of literary illustrations entitled Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century (1992), as well as dozens of essays and articles. Dr. Stewart’s publications also include a translation of Rousseau’s Julie and an edition of Claude Crébillon’s Les Heureux Orphelins.
Appointed as the Benjamin E. Powell Professor of Romance Languages at Duke, Dr. Stewart’s service there included chairing the Department of Romance Languages and the Academic Council (faculty senate), and serving as director of graduate studies in Romance Languages and director of the Center for European Studies. He has been a visiting professor at Hamilton, the University of South Carolina, École Normale Supériere de Lettres at Sciences Humaines (Lyon, France), Université de Paris-Sorbonne and Université Stendhal (Grenoble, France). He has held a senior research fellowship at Université Stendhal (Grenoble), is an associate member of a national research center sponsored by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Universités de Grenoble et Lyon, and has held faculty positions at Harvard and Yale.
Joan Hinde Stewart became the 19th president of Hamilton College in 2003. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1970, having graduated summa cum laude in 1965 from St. Joseph's College, a small, private, liberal arts college in Brooklyn, New York. Her scholarly research focuses on 18th-century French literature, especially women writers.
June 2014
Please note: The named scholarships profiled on these pages are awarded as part of the College’s need-based financial aid packages. These funds help ensure the Hamilton Promise of keeping education affordable through meeting a student’s full demonstrated financial need.
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