Sam Rocha

Ph.D. Candidate, Ohio State University

Scholarships, Grants, and Awards

Graduate Student Travel Awardee (best accepted paper proposal), the Philosophical Studies in Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, ($500), 2010.

Junior Fellow Semi-Finalist, Harvard Society of Fellows, 2009.

Gates Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ($20,000 per year), 2007-present.


Graduate Teaching Associate, Ohio State University, (tuition plus stipend), 2007-present.


Received a bursary to attend the International Philosophy of Education Student Summer School, Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, (tuition plus room and board), June-July 2009.

Departmental Travel Grant
Recipient, Ohio State University, ($650), February 2009.

Michael Oliker Awardee, Society for the Philosophical Study of Education Graduate Paper Competition, ($100), November 2008.

Hoyt Stipend
Recipient, South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society, ($50), October 2008.

Ray Travel Award
Recipient, Ohio State University, ($700), September 2008.

Departmental Travel Grant Recipient, Ohio State University, ($500), April 2008.

Michael Oliker Awardee, Society for the Philosophical Study of Education
Graduate Paper Competition, ($100), November 2006.

Gates Millennium Scholar, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, (tuition, room and board plus stipend for B.A. and first M.A.), 2001-2007.

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