TWO U.VA. PH.D. CANDIDATES WIN NEWCOMBE FELLOWSHIPS

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 5 -- Two University of Virginia
doctoral candidates are among 34 in the country to receive 1996
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships to pursue
dissertations on topics of ethical or religious values.  Sidney
Brown and Kenda B. Mutongi will each receive a stipend of $14,000
for a year of uninterrupted study.
	Brown, a graduate student in U.Va.'s Department of Religious
Studies, received her undergraduate degree from Emory University.
She has received numerous awards and honors including a DuPont
Fellowship and Fulbright Fellowship to Sri Lanka.  Her dissertation
is titled "Fighters in White -- Contemplative Activist Buddhist
Women in Thailand."
	Mutongi, a graduate of Coe College, is a Ph.D. candidate in
U.Va.'s Department of History.  She is writing her dissertation on
the "Generation of Grief and Grievances:  A History of Widows and
Widowhood in Maragoli, Western Kenya, 1900 to Present."  Mutongi has
received awards and honors from the Rockefeller Foundation, the
Social Science Research Council and U.Va.'s Carter G. Woodson
Institute for African and African-American Studies.
	The 1996 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral fellowships were
awarded in history, literature, religion, anthropology, philosophy,
music, art, political science and education to doctoral candidates
from 15 graduate institutions.
	The grants are administered by the Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation and funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe
Foundation.
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June 4, 1996