The Philip Brett LGBT Fund is an endowment established in 2009 by members and friends of the UC Berkeley campus community to support graduate students working in LGBT Studies. It provides an award of $3,500 in spring 2020 to a UC Berkeley graduate student, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, conducting research related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer studies in any field or discipline.

Applicants must provide brief summaries of their overall research interests and aims; questions they are pursuing or plan to pursue that are related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender issues; and contributions that they hope to make to LGBT-related studies. An endorsement letter from the academic adviser is required.

The application deadline is March 25, 2020.

To start a new application or log into your current application, please use the following link. You will be asked to authenticate with your CalNet ID.

Application Login

Questions regarding the application should be sent to [email protected]