Matthew Simonton, Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship

Matthew Simonton has accepted a 2008 Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship.  The Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education awards these three-year fellowships to outstanding doctoral students engaged in interdisciplinary research.  He was one of a twelve student inaugural cohort selected from a university-wide, highly competitive pool with over 175 applicants. Matt is using theories and methods from contemporary political science in his dissertation on Classical-era Greek oligarchies.