Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross posting),

The SSAWW Graduate Student Caucus is excited to announce a new cycle for our Mentorship Match
Program. This program, new to SSAWW last year, pairs dissertating graduate students with a faculty
mentor who will read and provide feedback on two chapters of their dissertation during the 2025-2026
academic year. The program concludes with a series of online panels in Spring 2026 in which graduate
students and their mentors showcase graduate students’ developing dissertation projects. This is a great
opportunity for graduate students to obtain feedback on your work, make connections with faculty
who are not at your institution, and share your dissertation project with a wider audience.

If you are a dissertating graduate student interested in participating in this program during the
upcoming 2025-2026 academic year, we ask that you complete this short form to give us more
information on the dissertation project you are seeking mentorship on. This information will
help us confirm your eligibility and find a fitting faculty match for your exciting work! Please
complete the form by Friday, August 16 if you’d like to be considered for the 2025-2026
Mentorship Match Program. If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer Putzi
(jlputz@wm.edu).

If you are not interested in this program but would still like to be involved in SSAWW’s Graduate
Student Caucus, please email Alice Martin (ajmartin@wcu.edu) to be added to the listserv.

Best,
Alice Martin & Jennifer Putzi