Office of Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships
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Elizabethtown College’s Core curriculum offers an interdisciplinary, intentionally connected foundation that reinforces each student’s major or minor. Combined with our Signature Learning Experiences — Supervised Research with Faculty, Capstone Courses and Projects, Professional Development Portfolios, Internships, Field Placements, Practicums, Community-Based Learning, and Cross-Cultural Experiences — and grounded in our Educate for Service tradition, Etown students are exceptionally well prepared for prestigious scholarships and fellowships.
Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships provide funding to pursue opportunities students might not otherwise be able to afford — from short-term summer programs to multi-year graduate study in the United States or abroad.
Scholarships & Recipients
View a comprehensive list of scholarships as well as students and faculty members who have been awarded those scholarships in years past.
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Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships works to enable students to produce applications for nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships best reflecting their experience, goals, and future direction. More specifically, we identify potential applicants, advise and mentor students preparing applications, and develop future applicants. This work is guided by the professional fellowship advising values identified by the National Association of Fellowship Advisors, of integrity, collaboration, respect, and fairness, and by the mission of Elizabethtown College.
Meet the Director
Jean-Paul Benowitz
Director of Prestigious Scholarships and Public Heritage Studies
benowitzj@etown.edu |
717-361-1110
A historian, Professor Benowitz teaches Honors 201: Elizabethtown History: Campus and Community. This Honors course counts for the Western Cultural Heritage Area of Understanding and Guided Writing and Research requirements for the Core Curriculum. The course also fulfills Community Based Learning, one of the Signature Learning Experience requirements, and is cross-listed with Public Heritage Studies.
Professor Benowitz is Director of Public Heritage Studies; he advises students pursuing the Public Heritage Studies Minor. He has authored books and articles about local history, regional studies, and Elizabethtown College’s history. Based on this scholarship, he teaches Honors 204: The Politics of Historic Preservation in Lancaster County, which counts for Western Cultural Heritage requirements of the Core Curriculum and is cross-listed with Public Heritage Studies. This experiential learning course explores regional studies through the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) pedagogy “City As Text.”
He serves on the NCHC national Place As Text Committee and has given presentations at NCHC conferences and published chapters in monographs about Honors experiential learning and civically engaged research. Professor Benowitz has nationally taught NCHC Place As Text and City As Text Faculty Institutes and Faculty Master Classes.
Professor Benowitz teaches Honors 220: Genealogy, Heraldry, Paleographical Studies, and The Public Historian. This course examines the historiography of biography, autobiography, and memoir through the lens of the historian and the genealogist. It counts for the Humanities Core Area of Understanding, Guided Writing and Research, and the Supervised Research Signature Learning Experience.
He also teaches Honors 205: Honors Leadership Theory and Personal Narrative. This Honors course counts for the Humanities Area of Understanding requirements for the Core Curriculum and prepares students applying for internships, study abroad, jobs, graduate programs, and competitive post-graduate scholarships and fellowships.
Professor Benowitz is Director of Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships. He has authored articles and chapters in monographs published by the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) about academic advising, teaching, and directing Honors Programs, and serves on the national Program Committee for NCHC.
Much of his scholarship and public presentations have focused on American History, U.S. Presidential History, U.S. Diplomatic History, and Anabaptist and Pietist Studies in a political context. Professor Benowitz has received national recognition for his work in teaching and advising Honors students.
Summer Enrichment Grants
Summer Enrichment Grants help fund summer research, selective internships, or academic travel tied to a student’s area of study. Each year, at least six $1,000 grants support high-achieving Elizabethtown College students as they pursue meaningful research, study, or travel experiences that advance their academic goals. (Additional funding may be available in special circumstances.)
These grants are intended primarily for rising sophomores and juniors who are building strong academic profiles and may later compete for nationally prestigious scholarships and fellowships — opportunities that often support specialized study abroad, independent research, or graduate study.
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