Graduate Student Success Series: Thir Budhathoki

Introducing the Graduate Student Success Series! The Graduate Center is pleased to celebrate the 2022 Newcombe Fellowship winner, Thir Budhathoki.

Thir’s dissertation chair, Dr. Aimee Mapes, had this to say of Thir’s success: “Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English graduate student Thir Budhathoki has been awarded the 2022 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for his dissertation Linguistic Justice in Writing Studies: A Decolonial Perspective. 

"Funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the Newcombe Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences with only 4.8% of all applicants selected. You may read the full announcement from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars here: Newcombe Dissertation Fellows https://citizensandscholars.org/22-newcombe/,”

“Thank you so much,” said Thir to Dr. Shelly Hawthorne Smith, Associate Director of the Graduate Center Fellowship Office, “for drawing my attention to this fellowship and encouraging me to apply.”