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Palmina & Roberto Mignone Endowed Fellowship

In Italian and Italian American Studies

Purpose

  • The Mignone Fellowship provides full tuition coverage and a $26,000 annual stipend as Teaching Assistant. It is renewable until completion of the Master’s degree, for a period of up to 3 years in total. Fellows may receive additional funding for travel related to research or conferences.
  • The Mignone Fellow will teach a 100-level undergraduate Italian language class each semester and collaborate on the Center’s cultural and community-oriented activities.
  • Fellows will also have the opportunity to partner with the Center’s Director and Administrator and engage with a dynamic network of faculty and students from multiple departments, such as Languages and Cultural Studies, Linguistics, History, Art History, Hispanic Languages, English, and Philosophy.

 

Applying

  • The Palmina & Roberto Mignone Fellowship is open to U.S. citizens and International graduate students who have been accepted into the MA in Romance Languages (Italian) or the MAT in Italian. Applicants must demonstrate a high proficiency in the Italian language.
  • Applications for the 2024-25 academic year are closed. For additional information email ctritalianstudies@stonybrook.edu or call the office at (631) 632-7444.

Current fellow

The Center Welcomes new Mignone Fellow Sophia Scala!

Sophia Scala

Scala is a recent graduate of Rutgers University. She has joined SBU to pursue her MA in Romance Languages, specializing in Italian. As part of her fellowship, she will teach Elementary Italian (ITL 111) and participate in the Center's activities and initiatives. Welcome, Sophia!


Past fellows

Congratulations to our 2024 Mignone Fellow!

Anne-Marie Dept. Grad. Headshot

Anne-Marie Lucchese

With the support of the Mignone Fellowship, Anne-Marie Lucchese finished her second master's degree in Romance Languages (Italian) at Stony Brook University. She researched the Italian immigrant experience in Kentucky from the 1870s to the early twentieth century. Ms. Lucchese is continuing her studies as a PhD student at Indiana University at Bloomington.