Aethelwulf

Hi everyone, I'm assembling materials for dissertation fellowship applications this coming fall and am wondering if it's worth applying for the IDRF and CLIR fellowships when I'll be expecting to finish in 2015/2016. Both of these fellowships are advertised as research fellowships rather than for writing up but my project (like many in the humanities) lends itself towards a process of combined research and writing chapter by chapter. I anticipate that I can make a good case that these fellowships would be extremely helpful since my final chapter engages closely with items preserved in Greek museum collections. However I wonder whether it'll be worth my while applying when it would look likely from my application that I'd be finishing while holding the fellowship. If anyone has any wisdom from past applications on this then it would be great to hear it. P.S. I realise the chances for both fellowships are laughably small anyway. But there's a big difference between small chance and no chance!