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 (PSF) 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 (PSF) 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
Jean-Paul Benowitz is Director of Public Heritage Studies and Director of Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships in the School of Arts and Humanities where he has served on the faculty since 1993.
His scholarship spans three interconnected fields: the history of the Anabaptist-Pietist tradition and the Historic Peace Churches of the mid-Atlantic region; the political history of the twentieth-century United States, with particular emphasis on presidential studies and presidential biography; and the theory and practice of place-based and community-engaged learning in higher education. He served as Scholar in Residence at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.
He is the author and co-author of several books, including Elizabethtown College (Arcadia Publishing, 2014) and Elizabethtown (Arcadia Publishing, 2015), as well as his most recent book, Sarah Tyson Rorer: The Pure Food Movement and Mount Gretna's Rorer Hall of Cookery (Mount Gretna Area Historical Society / Lebanon County Historical Society, 2026). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Pennsylvania History, Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Pennsylvania Folklife, the Mennonite Historical Bulletin, and Honors in Practice, among others. He is the editor of the NCHC Celebratory Monograph Festschrift: The 50th Anniversary of Place as Text (2026) and has authored chapters in monographs published by the National Collegiate Honors Council on Place as Text® and City as Text® pedagogies. In 2025, he produced, directed, and wrote the documentary film The Prospect for Freedom: W. Miller Barbour's Human Rights Journey, an official selection at the Hollywood International Indie Film Festival (December 2026), with public screenings hosted by the Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs in the Office of Governor Josh Shapiro, the Greater Harrisburg Area NAACP, and the Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity at Dickinson College.
He serves on national committees of the National Collegiate Honors Council and the National Association of Fellowship Advisors, and has presented scholarship at conferences of both organizations. His work in the Office of Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships has supported students competing for the Rhodes, Goldwater, Fulbright, and Gilman programs.
He is the recipient of the Smedley Award from the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County, given to an educator who has shown extraordinary support for historic preservation, and received the Peace Prize from the Rockland Fellowship of Reconciliation. He has also been recognized with awards for his mentoring of Emergent Scholars and Stamps Scholars. He teaches courses in Elizabethtown College's Honors Program on American political history, regional and local history, historic preservation, genealogy and public history, and leadership theory and personal narrative.
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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