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Aha research grants.

Each year, the American Historical Association awards several research grants with the aim of advancing the study and exploration of history in a diverse number of subject areas. All grants are awarded in June and may be used anytime in the subsequent 15 months for expenses related to furthering research in progress. Grants may be used for travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; borrowing or access fees; and similar research expenses—a list of purposes that is meant to be merely illustrative, not exhaustive (other expenses, such as child care, can be included). The deadline for research grant applications is February 15 .

Eligibility: Only AHA members are eligible to apply for AHA research grants. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs such as the completion of a project or discrete segment thereof. Please note: Within a five-year period, no individual is eligible to receive more than a combined total of $1,500 from all AHA research grants. In addition, although an individual can apply for multiple grants, they can only receive one research grant in a given year.

For questions, please contact the Prize Administrator .

Albert J. Beveridge Grant

The Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the Western Hemisphere supports research in the history of the United States, Canada, and Latin America; individual grants do not exceed $1,000. See the list of past recipients .

Michael Kraus Research Grant

The Michael Kraus Research Grant in colonial American history, with particular reference to the intercultural aspects of American and European relations, offers cash awards of up to $800. See the list of past recipients .

LGBTQ History Research Grant

The LGBTQ History Research Grant offers grants of up to $500 for new and continuing research in LGBTQ history, available to scholars working in all temporal and geographic fields. past recipients .-->

Littleton-Griswold Grant

The Littleton-Griswold Grant offers grants of up to $1,000 for research in US legal history and in the general field of law and society, broadly defined. See the list of past recipients .

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant

The Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant supports research in the history of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Individual grants will not exceed $1,500. See the list of past recipients .

Fellowships

Fellowships in aerospace history.

The Fellowships in Aerospace History , supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), annually fund research projects from six to nine months. Proposals of advanced research in history related to all aspects of aerospace, from the earliest human interest in flight to the present, are eligible, including cultural and intellectual history, economic history, history of law and public policy, and history of science, engineering, and management. The fellowships are open to applicants who hold a doctoral degree in history or a closely related field, or who are enrolled in and have completed all course work for a doctoral degree-granting program. Preference is given to applicants in early stages of their careers. NASA provides funds to the American Historical Association and to the History of Science Society to allow both associations to award fellowships. The stipend is $21,890 for each fellowship. Three fellowships are offered each academic year; applications will be entered into consideration for all three fellowships. See the list of past recipients .

Annual Meeting Grants

The AHA annual meeting is the largest gathering of historians from across the discipline, and it offers many opportunities to build a professional network, enhance teaching skills, learn about the latest research, and participate in discussions about issues affecting the discipline. The AHA offers the following grants and fellowships to help graduate students, early career, and un/underemployed historians to attend the annual meeting. Only members of the Association are eligible to apply.

Child Care Grants

The Association offers 10 grants of up to $250 to assist AHA members who have child-care costs during the meeting. The grants are intended to help offset the cost of child care, enabling attendees with dependent children to attend the meeting. History graduate students, early career historians, and contingent faculty are eligible; priority will go to those who are on the program.

AHA Council Annual Meeting Travel Grants

In 2015, the AHA Council established a fund to subsidize graduate student attendance at the AHA annual meeting and expanded the program to include un/underemployed historians in 2020. Applicants in any major or minor field of study, regardless of participation in the meeting program, will be considered. Grant amounts are recommended annually by the executive director based on the fund balance and range between $200–$400. Applications are accepted each fall. See the list of past recipients .

Jerry Bentley World History Travel Grants

The Jerry Bentley World History Travel Grants are awarded annually to support travel to the AHA annual meeting for graduate students who include world history among their major or minor fields of academic study. Grantees enrolled at a university in the state of Hawaii will receive twice the standard grant amount. Grant amounts are recommended annually by the executive director based on the fund balance and range between $200–$400. Applications are accepted each fall. See the list of past recipients .

Dorothy Rosenberg Phi Beta Kappa Annual Meeting Travel Grants

Established in 2013 at the bequest of Dorothy Rosenberg and in collaboration with the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the Dorothy Rosenberg Phi Beta Kappa Annual Meeting Travel Grants are awarded annually to help defray travel expenses incurred by graduate students attending the annual meeting. Graduate student applicants in any major or minor field, regardless of participation in the meeting program, will be considered. Successful applicants will be awarded travel subsidies of up to $400 each. See the list of past recipients .

National Institute of Social Sciences Annual Meeting Travel Grants

Established in 2019 by the members of the National Institute of Social Sciences , the National Institute of Social Sciences Annual Meeting Travel Grants are awarded to help defray travel expenses incurred by graduate students attending the AHA annual meeting. Graduate student applicants in any major or minor field of history will be considered. Successful applicants will be awarded travel subsidies of up to $400 each. Preference will be given to graduate students participating in the meeting program. Applications are accepted each fall. See the list of past recipients .

James G. Stofer Annual Meeting Travel Grants

Established in 2022, the James G. Stofer Fund provides grants to support the participation of community college and public high school teachers in AHA activities and programs. Community college and public high school faculty applicants, who are members of the Association, will be considered for the Stofer Annual Meeting Travel Grants, regardless of participation in the program. Successful applicants will be awarded travel subsidies of up to $400 each. past recipients .-->

Special Grants

Aha-neh sharp grants.

The AHA’s Grants to Sustain and Advance the Work of Historical Organizations Program provides $2.5 million to support dozens of small history-related organizations adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. These grants, ranging from $10,000 to $75,000, fund short-term projects that explore new ideas or build on experiments initiated during the pandemic—from virtual programming or online publications to using new technologies or expanding audiences and accessibility. We encourage proposals for both ambitious new initiatives as well as smaller projects that address problems that have arisen because of the pandemic.

Historians Relief Fund

To assist un/underemployed historians who have been financially affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, the AHA has established $500 emergency grants that can be used to cover unexpected expenses related to this crisis. Only AHA members are eligible to apply.

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Funding for Graduate Students

Finding the right graduate program requires evaluating the financial as well as academic opportunities available. The University of Georgia and the history department offer multiple avenues for funding your graduate studies and research projects.

Most importantly, we fund many admitted PhD and MA students through departmental both teaching assistantships and research fellowships. Our typical funding package provides six years of support for PhD students and two years for MA students. When considering offers of financial support, we encourage prospective students to weigh the length of our funding period, which surpasses what most history departments offer, our moderate workloads, and the low cost of living in Athens, Georgia.

Departmental enhancement grants are also awarded as first-year supplements to the most qualified applicants. In addition, the Graduate School offers competitive, multi-year research and teaching assistantships and fellowships . All departmental and Graduate School teaching and research assistantships include tuition remission, health insurance benefits, and coverage of most student fees. These benefits apply to Georgia residents as well as out-of-state and international students. For detailed information on the department's graduate funding policies, including satisfactory progress requirements, please consult the Graduate Student Guidebook and the terms of specific Graduate School assistantships.

Teaching Assistantships

The majority of TAs are assigned to one of two categories as determined by the department needs, usually to a large undergraduate history survey class:

• Graders/Proctors/Office Hours: These TAs work directly with a supervising instructor and assist in all kinds of classes. Duties vary greatly, but usually include grading, proctoring exams, and holding office hours. Their duties usually do not include in-class teaching responsibilities.
• Discussion Leader (usually after the first semester): While these TAs assist a supervising instructor, they generally have more in-class teaching responsibilities. Their duties including preparing and presenting topics during breakout session in addition to grading and holding office hours.

TAs are evaluated every semester by their instructor of record. The evaluation is available here . The TA policy is included in the Guidebook .

Research Assistantships

Atlanta history center.

The department has partnered with the Atlanta History Center to create the Sheffield Hale Fellowship, a paid internship at the History Center’s Buckhead campus. Some of the past projects that students have assisted with include the updated exhibit at the Margaret Mitchell House as well as topics such including the Atlanta airport and Civil War Era Atlanta. Students will gain invaluable knowledge about all aspects of the museum industry including exhibitions, collections, administration, and education.   

Student Testimonial   

Maya Brooks: I worked on the Margaret Mitchell project and gained key knowledge on archival research after spending time researching Mitchell at UGA special collections, the Atlanta History Center Kenan Research Center, and the Auburn Avenue Research Library. I also got to experience the exhibition creation process from start to finish from initial research, text writing, the mapping of the exhibit space, and the creation of interactives throughout the exhibit. 

A joint partnership between the department and UGA Press offers a yearlong graduate editorial apprenticeship with the press. In this role graduate students will learn how scholarly publishing operates. They will understand how books are acquired, peer reviewed, developed, and edited for publication.

Student Testimonial

Maya Brooks: I knew next to nothing about the publication process before doing an apprenticeship with UGA Press. I learned a lot from choosing as a team which books will go forth with publication, searching for appropriate reviewers for books, contracts between the press and its reviewers/authors, and what a finished manuscript looks like. If you’re looking for a career in publishing this is a great stepping stone.

New Georgia Encyclopedia

The NGE is the nation’s first digital state encyclopedia. It provides access to scholarship on a wide variety of topics. All of its entries are written and reviewed by scholars, fact-checked by reference librarians at the University of Georgia and updated regularly to reflect new information and recent developments. Graduate students at the NGE work with staff on all aspects of the publication process, including reviewing existing entries, editing new entries, and proposing new content based on their own research.   

Lyn Hemingway: With this, I got to practice more history communication for a general audience. I also had to face the unique challenge of taking someone else’s work and “punching it up” to better suit a general audience at 8th grade reading level which can be hard with more specialized articles! Also, sending feedback articles to helpful user comments is great! It really is special to work together with commenters to improve the quality of the encyclopedia’s information when the comments are useful.

UGA Libraries

UGA is home to three libraries that comprise special collections: The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Richard B. Russell Jr. Library for Political Research and Studies, and the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection.

Patrick Sheridan: Working at the Brown Media Archives gave me an admirable opportunity to enhance my research and public history experience. I was able to use many of the skills I learned in the PhD program, such as writing and database research, to create content for public audiences. I am grateful to UGA for providing so many opportunities to enhance my skills beyond the classroom.

Lyn Hemingway: I would say Russell has been fun since it has lots of hands-on opportunities. This summer, I’m putting together some programming for an exhibit and am fabricating my small temporary exhibit myself!

The Gable Editorial Internship for The Public Historian

The premiere journal in the field of public history, this editorial internship allows students to gain extensive familiarity and training in public history and scholarly publishing. The internship offers an immersion in editing professional publications.

Maggie Neel: The Gable Editorial Internship for The Public Historian gave me experience in an important arm of academia. It introduced me to cutting-edge public history scholarship and the inner workings of a peer-reviewed journal while providing me the opportunity to edit now published work.   

Departmental Travel Grants

Departmental travel grants for research and conference participation are available on a competitive basis for use during the fall, spring, or summer semesters. All department graduate students are eligible to apply for this funding. There are no restrictions on subject matter, time period, thematic interest, or stage in the program.

Graduate School Travel Grants

The Graduate School also offers Graduate School travel grants , competitive travel funding for students presenting their research at conferences and professional meetings. These awards can be up to $1,000 for domestic and $1,500 for international travel.   

• Domestic Travel Grants (open to all graduate students)
• International Travel Grants (open to doctoral students and students pursuing terminal degrees)  

Other UGA Awards, Fellowships, Grants, and Scholarships

UGA Graduate School offers many other prestigious fellowships to support dissertation research, writing and completion. History graduate students often win the Graduate School’s most sought-after awards.

Graduate Student Research Assistantship   

The GSRA is awarded annually to the University’s most qualified individuals in pursuit of study or research. The award includes an elevated stipend during the student's first year, during which they serve as a research assistant to their major professor.

Presidential and Doctoral Graduate Fellowships

These prestigious, highly competitive awards were established to recruit exceptionally qualified students to our doctoral programs. Nominations for this award are presented to the Graduate School by individual departments or interdisciplinary programs in late January.

The presidential award consists of a $10,000 supplemental award added annually to graduate assistantships for the first four years of the program. The doctoral award consists of a $7,000 supplemental award added annually to graduate assistantships during the first four years of the program. During that time the Graduate School pays mandatory student fees, provides travel support of $1,000 per year, offers regular programming that emphasizes professional / leadership development, and host regular meetings with senior university leadership.  

Maya Brooks, a third-year PhD student, has grown professionally and academically thanks to the Presidential Fellowship.  

Because of Presidential Fellows I have been able to travel to conferences and network with likeminded scholars. I've also met brilliant graduate students in other departments and learned more about their disciplines along with receiving vital professional development training. I was even given the opportunity to present my work to the Graduate Education Advancement Board comprised of prestigious UGA alumni. I'm incredibly grateful to have been chosen for this award.   

Ben Prostine,  a second-year PhD student, has centered his time at UGA on furthering his research thanks to the additional stipend offered by the Presidential Fellowship.  

Receiving the Presidential Fellowship was one of the main reasons I chose UGA for graduate school. The additional funding from the fellowship has allowed me to focus on my own research in the summer (rather than seeking out paid work); in addition, the travel stipend connected to the fellowship has helped me visit archives for research.  

MA Fellow Award

The MA fellow award helps recruit exceptionally qualified MA students to UGA program. Nominations for this award are presented to the Graduate School by individual departments or interdisciplinary programs in late January.

The award consists of a $4,000 supplemental award added annually to graduate assistantships provided by academic units. Fellows will receive two years of support and must hold a departmental or extramurally-funded assistantship for the duration of the award.

Other Graduate School Awards

The Graduate School offers many other supplemental awards, scholarships, and fellowships, all available on their website .

• Excellence in Research by Graduate Students Awar d
• Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students
• Summer Research Grants for Doctoral Students
• Grants for Communication of Research and Scholarship
• UGA Dissertation Completion Fellowship
• George Hugh Boyd Memorial Scholarship
• Alfred E. Brown Scholarship
• Dianne C. Davison Scholarship
• Mary Erlanger Graduate Fellowship
• J.W. Fanning Graduate Fellowship Fund
• Goizueta Foundation Graduate Scholars Fund Assistantships
• Hamilton Lokey Graduate Scholarship
• Gwinn Henry Nixon Scholarship
• Osborne Graduate Fellowships for Students in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
• Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship
• South Georgia Graduate Fellowship
• UGA Alumni Association Endowed Graduate Scholarship
• Jane S. & Harry Willson Graduate Fellowship

Willson Center Fellowships  

The Willson Center provides funding through competitions for various internal grants. These include funds for travel to conduct research.

Elyse Elyaman, a second year MA student, traveled to Latin America.

The funds I received from the Wilson Center and Graduate School at UGA allowed me to travel to Chile, my country of study, to collect resources for my master's thesis. Thanks to the generous funding, I was able to spend over a month abroad in multiple cities doing my research and laying the groundwork for further studies. During my time there I was able to visit over 5 different archives and establish academic contacts in multiple universities. This was an incredible opportunity and I am so grateful to UGA for their support!  

UGA Office of Research

• Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award
• James L. Carmon Scholarship

Pivot  is a subscription database of more than 25,000 funding opportunities from numerous sponsors across all disciplines. UGA faculty, students, and staff can search the database and create custom email funding alerts based on the criteria provided by the individual COS user. You can also share funding opportunities with groups, and save and track opportunities.

External Funding Sources

The UGA Honors Program provides a comprehensive list of the major scholarships available to graduates, undergraduates, and graduating students. Other opportunities include:

• National Archives Regional Residency Fellowship, National Archives and Research Administration [More Info]
• International Dissertation Research Fellowships, Social Science Research Council [More Info]
• John H Daniels Fellowship, National Sporting Library [More Info]
• Smithsonian Inst Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution [More Info]
• Formby Research Fellowship, SW Collection Texas Tech University [More Info]
• The Dirksen Congressional Center, The Dirksen Congressional Center [More Info]
• New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, Massachusetts Historical Society [More Info]
• The Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the Western Hemisphere, American Historical Association [More Info]
• Graduate Dissertation Award, Economic History Assoc [More Info]
• Fothergill Research Award, Bartram Trial Conference [More Info]
• Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship (History of Technolgy), SHOT [More Info]
• Research Fellowships for the Study of the Global South, Tulane Univ [More Info]
• Short-term Visiting Fellowships, USC [More Info]
• Hal K. Rothman Fellowship, American Society for EH [More Info]
• K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, Association of American Colleges and Universities [More Info]
• Ellison Durant Smith Research Award, USC, The South Caroliniana Library [More Info]
• World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship, Smith Richardson Foundation [More Info]
• Colonial Dames American History Scholarship, Colonial Dames American History [More Info]
• Archie K. Davis Fellowships, North Carolinia Society [More Info]
• Alfred D. Bell Travel Grant, Forest History Society [More Info]
• Hagley Museum Grants, Hagley Museum [More Info]
• Library Company of Philadelphia Fellowships  [More Info]
• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship [More Info]
• Miller Center of Public Affairs, UVA [More Info]
• Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Ph.D. Fellowship, Morris K. Udall Foundation [More Info]
• Julian Pleasants Visiting Scholar Grant, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida [More Info]
• Chase Family Award for Visiting Graduate Scholars, P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, Special & Area Studies Collections, at the George A. Smathers Library at the University of Florida [More Info]
• Robert and Gay Zieger Social Justice Scholarship Fund, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida  [More Info]
• Social Science Research Council, Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)  [More Info]

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Grants & Fellowships

History of science dissertation fellowship in history of science and allied fields.

We invite applications for History of Science Dissertation Fellowship Grant in the History of Science, and allied fields such as history of medicine, technology, and environment, the history of the philosophy of science, and contemporary study of science, technology, and medicine that also has a historical component. This grant will specifically fund dissertation writing and research for up to one year. Priority is given to students in their final year of graduate study, but we will also consider partial funding for students who are in the early stages of writing and still completing dissertation research.

Please send a 3-4 page proposal describing your dissertation, including the stage you are at with writing and research, and three letters of recommendation. Applications should be submitted to Rosemary Rogers (rrogers at stanford.edu) starting March 1 and due by April 16th. (Not offered 2024)

History of Science Research Grants

We invite applications for History of Science Research Grant in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. Grants will specifically fund pre-dissertation research, conferences and language training essential for the completion of doctoral work in the above mentioned fields. Amounts awarded will range from $1000 to a maximum of $2500.

Please send a one-page proposal describing the project you wish to undertake with an itemized budget. Applications should be submitted to Rosemary Rogers (rrogers at stanford.edu) starting March 1st and due by April 16th. Awards will be announced by May 1st.

John McCaskey Undergraduate Fellow

The John McCaskey Undergraduate Fellowship was established in 2011 with a generous gift by previous History and Philosophy PhD student John McCaskey for undergraduate students who wish to get involved in current research projects, working with HPST faculty, postdocs and graduate students the fields of History of Science or Philosophy of Science. Awards of up to $1000 will be announced by May 1st.

Award applications should be submitted to Rosemary Rogers (rrogers at stanford.edu) starting in late December and before March 15 of the following year.

Other external opportunities for History of Science Funding

• HSS: The History of Science Society
• SHOT: The Society for the History of Technology
• American Association for History of Medicine
• PSA: Philosophy of Science Society
• Huntington Library Fellowships
• Linda Hall Library Fellowships
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• Consortium in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Graduate Funding

General funding for graduate students in history.

The department endeavors to provide financial support to all students. At present this support normally covers the first six years of graduate study, provided the student is making satisfactory progress toward the PhD as determined by an annual review by the graduate committee. Occasionally, students may be admitted who receive other funding arrangements for part of their graduate program, but may be awarded grants in subsequent years. Students apply for funding from sources outside the department or university as part of their graduate training. Grants and fellowships provide expanded options for training and research, and enhance a student's chances of employment upon completing the program.

In addition to the funding provided by the Office of Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences, the Department has special funding through the Goldschmidt and Eddy Grants.  These funds support language study, research travel, and other forms of graduate development. Except for those who plan some career other than teaching, all doctoral students, regardless of financial support, are normally expected to participate for two years in the department's program of training in teaching.

Please note that, for languages offered at Washington University during the summer term, students who are completing their first, second, third, or fourth year in the program are eligible for tuition remission.  To be considered for full tuition remission, the language must be critical to successful completion of the dissertation research.  If the necessary language courses are offered during the fall or spring semesters, it is preferable to take them at that time.  In February, the Office of Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences makes an announcement regarding tuition remission for summer courses, and the History Department will circulate this announcement among the graduate students.

Travel Grants

R. w. davis travel grant.

The History Department supports graduate research and conference participation through R. W. Davis Travel Grants. Awarded on a competitive basis and subject to the limits of department resources, this funding allows students to present papers at academic conferences.

The department will fund reimbursable travel expenses up to $1,300 for a student who is presenting a paper at a conference in North America, and up to $1,800 for presenting at a conference overseas. The department strongly prefers that these be national conferences of major professional organizations, though specialized conferences bearing directly on the student’s research expertise (or other professional development) are also appropriate; regional conferences and graduate student conferences may be funded at a lower rate. This funding is available for presenting a paper at one conference in any given academic year. Support may be available for travel expenses to present a paper at a second conference, depending on the limits of departmental resources.

Students may apply for a Davis Travel Grant by submitting to the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) a one-page proposal outlining the rationale for their conference plans, along with a budget detailing their reimbursable expenses (conference registration fee, travel, lodging, and meals).

The award is named for Professor Emeritus Richard W. Davis in recognition of his decades of service to Washington University's doctoral program in history.

In addition to the Davis Travel Grants, which are provided by the History Department, students may request an additional $200 in matching funds from the Office of Graduate Studies. Requests for these matching funds should be submitted to the DGS at the same time as the application for a Davis Travel Grant. If approved by the DGS, they will be forwarded to the Office of Graduate Studies for review.

Deadline: Rolling

Maximum amount: $1,300* for North America/$1,800* for international conference; one conference per academic year, with possible funding for second conference.

Apply to: DGS

*Award amount has been increased to $1,300/$1,800 as of July 1st, 2023. Previous amounts were $700/$1,000. 

Professional Travel Grant

The History Department supports graduate students’ professional development through participation in appropriate conferences, where they may learn of the latest research in their field and make contact with scholars at other institutions. This funding is awarded on a competitive basis and subject to the limits of department resources.

The department will fund reimbursable travel expenses up to $800 for a student who is participating in a conference for professional development purposes. The department strongly prefers that these be national conferences of major professional organizations, though specialized conferences bearing directly on the student’s research expertise (or other professional development) are also appropriate.

Students may apply for this professional development travel support by submitting to the Director of Graduate Studies a one-page proposal outlining the rationale for their conference plans, along with a budget detailing their reimbursable expenses (conference registration fee, travel, lodging, and meals).

Deadline : Rolling

Maximum amount : $800**

**Award amount has been increased to $800 as of July 1st, 2023. Previous amount was $500. 

Dissertation Travel Funds (Office of Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences)

The Office of Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences provides dissertation travel funds in the amount of $1,000 to support research-related travel or travel to conferences by students who are completing their dissertations. Students who are fully funded by a University Fellowship, are working on their dissertation, and have finished all their coursework and all required examinations (qualifying, foreign language, etc.) other than the oral defense are eligible to request this travel support. Funds are available at the beginning of August for fall and the beginning of January for spring and will remain available until they are exhausted or the student graduates, whichever comes first.

Certain restrictions apply:

• Students funded by an Olin Fellowship, Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship, or a non-GS source (such as a McDonnell International Scholars Academy Scholarship) are NOT eligible for the dissertation travel fund.
• If a student lives outside of St. Louis, the award may not be used for travel between their residence and St. Louis.
• The dissertation travel fund may NOT be combined with a travel reimbursement request.

Requests for dissertation travel funds should be submitted to the Director of Graduate Studies by March 31. The DGS will forward appropriate requests to the Office of Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences, which makes the final decision on all requests for dissertation travel funds.

Deadline: March 31

Apply to: DGS; requires approval by Office of Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences

Goldschmidt Grants

Goldschmidt research study grants.

The History Department supports graduate research and professional development by providing Goldschmidt Graduate Research Grants for research-related activities that contribute to the student’s intellectual and academic development. These activities may include such things as travel to archives, participation in training workshops on methods not available at Washington University, and subscription to databases not available through Olin Library. Goldschmidt Graduate Research Grants are awarded on a competitive basis and subject to the limits of department resources.

Students may apply for Goldschmidt Graduate Research Grants by submitting to the Director of Graduate Studies a two-page proposal outlining the rationale for their research plans, along with a budget detailing their reimbursable expenses (travel, supplies, lodging and meals). The proposal should explain and justify the student’s research plans in terms of their overall progress in the program. The key to a successful proposal is a concrete and specific budget that is justified clearly in the accompanying narrative. Awards usually range between $500 and $3000.

The secondary advisor should also submit to the DGS a letter of support.

All students who receive research funding must also submit a brief written report to the DGS about what was accomplished with the funding. This report is due within two months of completing their funded research.

Deadline: review starts January 1st for funding that would begin June 1st of that year and run through May 31st of the following year

Maximum amount: $3,500

Goldschmidt Language Study Grants

The History Department supports graduate research by providing funds for summer programs that offer intensive instruction in languages essential to a student’s professional development. This may involve acquisition of a new research language, improvement of an existing one, or, for students who are not native speakers of English, immersive instruction designed to bring their English-language skills to near-native levels. Students newly admitted to the doctoral program may apply to pursue intensive language instruction during the summer prior to beginning their course work.

Requests for Goldschmidt Language Study Grants should include a brief explanation of how the language program in question will contribute to the student’s professional development and the success of their dissertation. The secondary advisor should also submit to the DGS a letter of support.

Continuing students should submit their requests to the Director of Graduate Studies by March 15.  

Entering students should submit their requests to the Director of Graduate Studies by May 15.  

Deadline: March 15 for continuing students; May 15 for entering students

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Financial Aid & Fellowships

The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences provides a five-year funding package for incoming doctoral students. The package consists of a combination of financial aid and fellowships.

A tuition grant covers the cost of tuition for five years , and depending on where students are in their progress towards the degree, the tuition grant is supplemented with additional funding.

In the first two years , students receive a stipend while they are engaged in coursework. In years three and four , students usually receive teaching fellowships, which are equal to the stipend received in years one and two. In the last year of graduate work students receive a dissertation completion fellowship. In addition to this package, a summer stipend is provided for the first, second, third, and fourth summers that students are in residence.

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Harvard Griffin GSAS does not discriminate against applicants or students on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry or any other protected classification.

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PhD Funding

All applicants accepted for the Ph.D. program will receive full funding for 5 years. This includes tuition and University related fees. Aid is restricted to students in the PhD program. The department strives to support every student in good standing as fully as possible. Aid is restricted to students in the PhD program, and is dependent on students making Satisfactory Academic Progress toward the degree.

PhD students entering in Fall 2019 will receive summer stipends in addition to service or non-service fellowships in the academic year. Students in their fifth year with an approved Dissertation Prospectus qualify for a non-service fellowship to support full-time work towards their dissertation.

Department Funding

The department provides limited funds to PhD students to attend conferences in their field, with more funding being available to students who are presenting at the conference than there is to students who are attending but not presenting. At the beginning of each academic year, the Director of Graduate Studies and/or the Department Administrator will announce the amount available for conference travel for that year and the deadline for budget proposals.

Reimbursement is limited to transportation costs (airfare, rental cars, airline fees), conference registration fees (including membership fees), and accommodation costs.

Reimbursements will not be done on a rolling basis, though every attempt will be made to reimburse students in a timely manner.

If you have any questions about department funding, please do not hesitate to contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Alexis Peri, or the Department Administrator, Cady Steinberg, at [email protected] .

Internal University Funding

The Graduate School offers Graduate Research Abroad Fellowships (GRAF) that fund dissertation research, as does the Boston University Center for the Humanities (BUCH) . In both cases, History graduate students must apply first to the Director of Graduate Studies, who will review applications with the Graduate Studies Committee.

Occasionally, the Graduate School will make available summer research fellowships for advanced PhD students. If and when these fellowships are available, the Director of Graduate Studies will inform students of the application process.

A generous gift from Boston University alumna Elisabeth M. Kenosian established the Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Graduate Fellowship Fund in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences for doctoral candidates who are studying modern Armenia. The fellowships will help underwrite research travel, summer research, and/or dissertation work.

The Kenosian Fellowships seek to support studies resulting in new insights and knowledge on such themes as:

• Armenian emigration to the U.S.;
• Armenian ethnic identity and nationalism;
• Armenian diplomatic and trade relations with the U.S., the European Union, and the Middle East; and
• Armenia’s role in the EU, the United Nations, and the Middle East.

All applicants accepted for the Ph.D. program in the BU History Department will receive full funding for 5 years. Doctoral candidates who have completed their undergraduate educations in the U.S. and are now engaged in research relevant to modern Armenia are eligible to apply for a Kenosian Fellowship. For more information, contact Simon Payaslian, Charles K. and Elisabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature, at [email protected] .

External Funding

There are many opportunities for external research funding beyond those offered at BU.

The General Society of Colonial Wars funds a fellowship, named the General Society of Colonial Wars John Adams Grant for Studies in American Colonial History, for doctoral students working in the period of American history between the founding of Jamestown and the Battle of Lexington. For more information on this fellowship, click here .

For more information about funding opportunities,  click here . While this is not a comprehensive list of graduate funding opportunities, it is a good place to start, particularly for pre-dissertation and dissertation research funding.

Department of History

Information for prospective students.

Learn about admission to the Ph.D. program in History at Brown University.

Applicants to the History Ph.D. program are advised to read the information here carefully. The Ph.D. Program Overview highlights what is distinctive about the department’s approach to graduate instruction. Organization of the Program provides a summary of the different stages and important milestones of the Ph.D. program. Financial Support directs applicants to sites that explain the guaranteed funding of graduate study as well as the opportunities to apply for grants and fellowships that support research and travel. Applying to the Brown History Ph.D. Program provides information about how applicants should think about graduate study, consider the suitability of Brown’s History program to their interests and needs, and apply to the program; it also explains the department’s admissions process.

Ph.D. Program Overview

The Ph.D. program in History trains students in the skills of conducting original historical research and crafting original historical arguments. In the course of their work as historians, Brown scholars draw on a wide range of methods and engage with a variety of audiences. While training emphasizes the core skills of academic research, writing, and teaching at the college and university level, the program’s goals do not end there. Many Brown Ph.D. students explore teaching and writing for different settings and prepare for a breadth of careers that value the skills that obtaining a Ph.D. in History entails.

Students are expected to complete Brown’s Ph.D. program in five to six years.  As a mid-sized program, the department values and cultivates attentive and hands-on faculty who work closely with students throughout their progress towards a degree. Critically, students in an entering cohort proceed through the program together, so that discussions across fields, geographies, and chronologies are built into the Ph.D. program.

Students accepted into the History Ph.D. program who remain in good standing are guaranteed funding for six years. Ph.D. students not supported by external fellowships work typically as teaching assistants in the second, third, and fifth (and, if relevant, a portion of the sixth) years of their program. There are also opportunities to apply for conference, research, and study grants either through the History Department or the Graduate School.

The information presented here is a summary of the Ph.D. program.  For a more detailed description, see the Department of History Graduate Handbook. Prospective students should also read carefully the information supplied on the website of Brown’s Graduate School .

Organization of the Program

The program is divided into two stages:

Stage 1: Coursework and preparation for the Preliminary Exams (Years 1-3) 

During the first and second years, students take seminars that introduce the major historiographical questions and methodologies of various subfields and develop their research skills. They identify the three fields for their Preliminary Exams and begin preparation for the exams, which are usually taken in December of the third year. Students are expected to teach as teaching assistants in their second and third years.

History offers five types of Ph.D. courses, typically to be completed within the first three years of a student’s program:

1)    Required seminars (4): "History Now" features cutting-edge historical research and writing, including that being written by History faculty members; "The Roots of History" traces the development of the historical profession, focusing on the major methodological and theoretical landmarks in that development; an advanced workshop, "Writing History," guides students through the writing of a publishable paper; a Dissertation Prospectus Seminar culminates in the student’s defense of the dissertation plan and proposal.

2)    Field Seminars offer a broad overview of the historiography of particular fields (e.g., Early Modern Europe, Modern East Asia).

3)    Thematic Seminars provide opportunities to explore a particular theme or methodological frame from a transnational and transtemporal perspective.

4)    Special Topics Seminars focus on the historiography of a particular nation or region, historical "event," or historiographical debate. They allow for focused, close training, including in specialized skills and readings in languages other than English.

5)    Independent Study courses, by arrangement with the instructor, offer students, individually or in small groups, opportunities to explore special interests in depth.

In addition, students will receive course credit for attending "The Practice of History," a series of professionalization workshops that provide guidance in grant-writing, applying for jobs, developing inclusive teaching practices, constructing effective syllabuses, etc.

Students typically take four courses per semester. Up to two graduate courses (exclusive of language courses) may be taken outside the department.

A typical schedule looks like this:

Preliminary Examinations 

By the end of the first semester, students should have identified three fields (one major and two minor); these are usually subfields of the primary and secondary fields listed under Fields of Study ). These will be the areas examined in the Preliminary Examinations—three written and one oral exam—usually completed by the end of the fifth semester.

Language Requirement

Language requirements are set by the fields of study. They must be completed before the preliminary examinations are taken at the end of the fifth semester.

Stage 2: Prospectus and advancement to candidacy (Years 3-5/6)

After the successful completion of all coursework, the language requirement, and the preliminary examinations, the student, usually during the course of the sixth semester, develops a dissertation prospectus. Once the prospectus is approved by the student’s dissertation committee, the student devotes full effort (outside of work as a Teaching Assistant) to researching and writing the dissertation.

In the sixth semester, students take the Dissertation Prospectus Seminar, which provides a collaborative structure for the process of identifying viable dissertation projects, selecting a Dissertation Committee, articulating the project in the form of a dissertation prospectus, and, when appropriate, developing grant proposals based on the prospectus. The prospectus, in roughly 15 to 20 pages, states the dissertation topic, sets it in the context of the relevant secondary historical literature, explains the significance of the study, outlines the methodology to be followed, describes the types of primary sources to be used, and provides a tentative chapter outline, a bibliography, and a research plan. During the Dissertation Prospectus Defense, usually held in May or June, the Dissertation Committee reviews the prospectus and provides suggestions and advice to the student. Once the prospectus is approved, the student proceeds to conduct research on the dissertation.

Dissertation

Dissertations can vary significantly between students and among subfields. Students should consult regularly with their advisors during the dissertation research and writing process, to report progress and to ensure agreement on expectations for the dissertation. The most basic standard for a dissertation is that it makes an original contribution to the body of relevant scholarship in its field. The doctoral dissertation should be completed within four years after the student passes the preliminary examinations.

The Dissertation Defense is conducted by the graduate advisor and other members of the Dissertation Committee. Its purpose is to provide a forum for a general discussion of the dissertation—its strengths and weaknesses as a contribution to knowledge and its future prospects.  If the dissertation is approved by the Dissertation Committee, the student has completed the final requirement of the Ph.D. program and can prepare to graduate.

Candidates for the Ph.D. must normally demonstrate satisfactory performance as a Teaching Assistant in undergraduate courses at Brown, or in teaching at another institution approved by the department. A Teaching Assistant usually works as a grader and section discussion leader under the guidance of the faculty member teaching the course. Ph.D. students not supported by external fellowships typically work as Teaching Assistants in the second, third, and fifth years of their program, and one semester in their sixth year. Explanation of the rights and responsibilities of teaching assistants may be found in the Department of History Graduate Handbook . 

Financial Support

Students admitted to the History Ph.D. program who remain in good standing are guaranteed six years of funding; the Graduate School provides the first five years of funding, and the Graduate School and the History Department share responsibility for sixth-year funding. In their first year, students receive fellowship support, which includes tuition remission, health insurance, the health-services fee, and a stipend. In the second, third, and fifth years and one semester of the sixth, students, unless they receive external funding, are supported primarily by teaching assistantships or proctorships, which include tuition remission, health insurance, the health services fee, and a stipend. The Graduate School provides additional summer stipends for five years of a student’s program.

Incoming Ph.D. students receive a relocation stipend to help cover the costs of moving to Brown.

All students are encouraged to apply for outside fellowship support as they move into the dissertation phase of the program (usually years four through six). The university will continue to support those who are not successful in winning such fellowships with a combination of research/dissertation fellowships and teaching assistantship/proctorship support, provided they remain in good standing and are making good progress toward the Ph.D. 

In addition, the Graduate School and the History Department provide several opportunities for students to apply for funding for research, conference participation, and language study. The Graduate School invites applications for Conference Travel, Doctoral Research Travel Grants, Joukowsky Summer Research Awards, International Travel Funds, and Global Mobility Research Fellowships. The History Department offers Research and Travel Funds, History Graduate Open Funds, support for language or research-skill acquisition, and aid for the purchase of technology or materials necessary for research.

Consult the Financing & Support page of the Graduate School site for comprehensive and up-to-date information on stipends, insurance subsidies, cost of living in Providence, and other useful planning resources. Internal Funding & Appointments also explains Brown’s six years of guaranteed financial support and provides some information on the travel and research grants managed by the Graduate School.

For more information about funding specific to the History Department, consult "Funding" in the Department of History Graduate Handbook .

Applying to the Brown History Ph.D. Program

Every year the faculty of the Department of History at Brown University receives many questions from prospective students from around the world about our Ph.D. program and the process of applying to the program. The History graduate admissions director, with input from the History faculty, has developed this guide for prospective students. Its first goal is to suggest how you should think through your interest in graduate study of history and, more specifically, in the Brown History Ph.D. program, so that you can make an informed choice about whether to apply to the program. Second, we supply an overview of the application and the materials that you are asked to submit if you do decide to apply. Third, we include a brief description of the admissions process. Please read these recommendations thoroughly before contacting the graduate admissions director or specific History Department faculty members.

1. Before Applying: What do I want to study — and is Brown right for me?

It’s important that you think through carefully what you hope to achieve in a history graduate program and what program will work best for you, given your interests and goals. We recommend that, before you contact either the graduate admissions director or individual faculty members with questions about the Brown History graduate program, you be able to answer these three important questions:

a)      What particular set of historical problems or themes do I want to study?  What region(s) of the world, in what time period(s), do I want to make my area of specialization?

b)    What are my qualifications for advanced work in history, and particularly in the problems, regions, and periods that I have identified as my areas of interest?

c)     Is the Brown History PhD program a good fit for me, given my specific interests and past training in history?  Are there scholars on the History faculty who work in my area of interest?

To elaborate:

a)      In order to make a persuasive application and in order to know which faculty member(s) you would like to work closely with at Brown, candidates have to be able to explain what particular historical questions they are interested in investigating; and in what region(s) of the world, over what time period(s). Stating simply a general interest in history or even a general interest in one particular period and place—for example, the Italian Renaissance—is not enough. What is it about the Italian Renaissance that is of interest? How would your study of a particular theme or problem relevant to the Renaissance contribute in a new and original way to our understanding of that topic?

The application will ask that you identify one and possibly two fields of interest; and the statement of purpose (also part of the application) will ask you to explain in some detail what your specific interests in history are.

If you are admitted to the program, you will find that you will have many opportunities to explore fields outside your areas of interest. Students are in fact encouraged to enroll in seminars outside their particular specializations—the History faculty believes that much can be learned, in terms of theory, methodology, and potential for fruitful comparison, from participation in class outside a specific field. And the relatively small size of the History program means that students often have to learn from work done in fields outside their own area of focus.

But, in thinking about your career in a graduate program—and in writing an effective application—it is important to be able to write persuasively about the particular historical questions and issues that engage your interest and that motivate you to apply to a Ph.D. program.

b)    What are your qualifications for advanced historical study in your field(s) of interest? What kind of knowledge base do you bring to your topic? What kind of course work have you done in history that is relevant to your area of interest? If languages other than English are required for research in your topic of interest, what progress have you made in learning those languages? Has any research or work you have done either inside or outside the academy strengthened your knowledge or your expertise in historical research?

Your statement of purpose should include some reference to your qualifications. And the writing sample that you are asked to submit should be a paper of roughly 20-25 pages that reflects your ability to do historical research, to analyze primary sources, to synthesize evidence from both primary and secondary sources in a persuasive historical analysis—and, of course, to write clearly and construct a well-organized argument.

c)      Is the Brown History Ph.D. program a good fit for your interests and qualifications?  The faculty, in assessing applications, wants to make sure that graduate students will be able to find the resources and faculty guidance that they need to pursue their research projects. If there is no one on the faculty who can adequately advise a student, then we reluctantly have to decide not to accept them into the program, no matter how brilliant their record in history is or how interesting their questions are. It would not be right to admit a student interested in Enlightenment Europe to the program, for example, if no faculty member teaches that field.

For this reason, it is important that you learn as much as you can about the History program by consulting the History Graduate website . Look at the "Fields of Study" page to see what fields the graduate program offers. Click on the field titles to see the faculty members who work in each field; and then click on the faculty members’ names to learn more about the scholars working within each field. This kind of research will help you learn the strengths of the Brown History program and help you decide whether it is a suitable program, given your own particular scholarly interests. You might also want to look at the "Current Ph.D. Students" page, as that will give you some idea of what our students are doing now. You may also want to consult scholars you have worked with in the past, at college or university or in an MA program; they might be able to help you decide if the Brown program would be a good choice.

Remember, too, that you want to think about how the program as a whole suits your interests.  You will be working with one faculty as your primary advisor, but you will also take courses with other faculty members (some of whom will also be on your preliminary exam and dissertation committees). Do you find enough in the way of faculty resources to provide you with a broad base of intellectual support for your program of study?

After thinking through your goals and carefully researching Brown’s History graduate program, if you still have questions about the program, you may write to the faculty member(s) in your field of interest or the Graduate Admissions Director. In your message, explain as clearly as possible what your interests are. Remember that faculty members are likely very busy during the semester: try to make your questions precise and focused (that is, do not request that a faculty member tell you generally about the program—you should have done enough research ahead of time to be able to ask more specific questions). If faculty members are interested in your application, you will have an opportunity to talk to them during the interview process, to be scheduled after the submission of applications but before January 1 (see below).

2. Applying to the Brown History Ph.D. Program

The online application through the Graduate School website is due on December 1, 2023. It consists of the following components:

a)     Standard form requiring basic information about applicant’s background and educational record. On the form applicants are asked to identify their primary and (if desired) secondary fields of study.   Note that the History Department does not require GRE scores. TOEFL/IELTS scores are required only if English was not the language of instruction at the college or university granting the BA or MA degree. See here for additional information .   

b)      Transcripts from colleges and universities attended.

c)       Statement of purpose, a 3-to-5 page (double-spaced, in 12-point font) essay (see below).

d)       Writing sample (see below).

e)     Three letters of recommendation (uploaded separately, by your recommenders). We strongly recommend that these letters be from scholars familiar with your academic record.

The parts of the application that receive the closest attention from the faculty are " 3 ," the statement of purpose, and " 4 ," the writing sample. The statement of purpose (3-5 double-spaced pages, typed in 12-point type) should first state your particular historical interests—as explained above, the particular issues or questions that you are interested in investigating and in what field(s); describe your strengths and aspirations as a historian; and explain the ways you think the Brown History Department, both individually and communally, is suited to support you in pursuit of your interests and goals. Please note that your application will be read both by faculty members in your prospective field and faculty members outside your field (see below). It is important, then, while stating your specific interests in history, to make your statement accessible to faculty members not in your area of interest.

The writing sample should be an essay (or a chapter from a senior or MA thesis) that demonstrates your ability to do historical work—that is, to do research in primary and secondary sources, forge a historical argument from your analysis of these courses, present the argument clearly and effectively, and explain its significance to the relevant field of historical study. There is no strict page limit on the writing sample; we suggest a paper of between 20 and 25 pages, double-spaced.

After faculty members have reviewed the applications in their field, they will contact applicants of interest with whom they have not met already to schedule an interview (via e-mail, telephone, or Zoom) of no more than thirty minutes.  Please note that you should check your email box regularly between December 1 and January 1 to see if you have received any requests for an interview. Please note, too, that not all applicants will receive such requests. During the interview, applicants are asked to reply to a standard set of questions: about themselves and their research project; their motivation for pursuing the Ph.D. degree in general and specifically at Brown; their career goals; and any challenges they have overcome in the past. At the end, applicants have an opportunity to ask questions of the faculty member(s).

3. The Admissions Process: How the History Department decides whom to accept into the Ph.D. program

We look for applicants who are asking provocative historical questions and who are interested in exploring such questions in a rigorous and inclusive intellectual community. From an applicant pool of approximately three hundred applicants, we carefully choose a class of about 8-to-12 Ph.D. students whose interests and strengths seem to fit particularly well with the intellectual configuration of the department.

Applications to the Ph.D. program are first reviewed by the faculty members in the field(s) of each applicant. For example, if you have listed Latin America as your first area of interest and Science, Technology, Environment and Mathematics as your second field, your application will be reviewed first by the Latin American faculty; and second by the STEaM faculty.

Faculty members will contact applicants of interest with whom they have not met already to schedule an interview (via e-mail, telephone, or Zoom) of no more than thirty minutes. The interview must be scheduled to take place by January 1 at the latest. Applicants are asked to reply to a standard set of questions about themselves and their research project; their motivation for pursuing the Ph.D. degree in general and specifically at Brown; their career goals; and any challenges they have overcome in the past. At the end, applicants have an opportunity to ask questions of the faculty member(s).

The faculty members in each field then decide which candidates they would like to admit and present a ranked list of these candidates to the central History Graduate Committee, which is composed of faculty from a variety of different fields. Application files are thus reviewed both by faculty members in the fields identified by the candidate and by a committee of scholars most likely outside that field of specialization. The Graduate Committee reviews all the recommended applications and selects from them a draft final admissions list. Because the Graduate School limits how many applicants we can accept into the program, the Committee cannot accept all the applicants recommended by the specific-field faculty. After this list is approved by the Department of History and the Graduate School, candidates are notified whether they have been accepted or not, usually in February.

Questions about the program in your field(s) of interest should be directed to the faculty members in that field (as explained above, consult the "Fields of Study" page of the History Graduate website . 

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Funding for Graduate Students

Funding packages for History graduate students normally consist of a combintion of Teaching Assistantships and deparmental fellowships. In order to remain eligible for funding via Academic Student Employee positions (TA/RA/SAships and instructorships), graduate  students must comply with the Washington State  sexual misconduct disclosure requirement (see below), and be meeting expected standards of progress as set by departmental policy and evaluated by their faculty committee on an annual basis. Students are also eligible to apply annually for competitive departmental and university fellowships, which provide comparable levels of support while exempting students from service requirements. Students in year seven and beyond remain eligible to apply for ASE appointments and fellowships, but their funding is not guaranteed. All students are strongly encouraged to apply for external fellowships and other funding such as  from the Graduate School, the Simpson Center, GPSS, FLAS, and other outside sources.

Sexual Misconduct Disclosure Requirement

Washington state law and University of Washington policy prohibits the UW from hiring candidates for graduate student employment who do not complete and sign a sexual misconduct declaration prior to their start of employment.  For further information about this requirement, see the  UW Human Resources website.

Prospective Students

All applicants for admission are considered for the Department aid for which they are eligible. A separate application for Departmental funding is not required, although we encourage applicants to simultaneously apply for external fellowships (e.g., Foreign Language and Area Studies) for which they may be eligible.

Current Students

Each Winter, current graduate students in good standing submit the Department's Consolidated Funding Application in order to be considered for departmental funding (and University funding for which the Department nominates students) the following academic year. 

Students are strongly encouraged to continue to apply for outside funding, and a track record of applying for and/or securing external funding will strengthen a student's case for departmental awards. For all students in all divisions, a consistent effort to apply for outside funding (FLAS, Simpson Center, et al.) will be an important factor in evaluating student progress through the program, even if that funding is not awarded.

Out-of-state graduate students are encouraged to apply for Washington residency for tuition purposes if they are eligible (international students are not eligible to apply for state residency for tuition purposes).  See the UW Residence Classification Office 's website for the procedures and documentation needed to apply for residency. Qualifying for Washington residency can be complicated:  questions regarding residency should be directed to the Residence Classification Office.

Final Quarter Registration in the PhD program: In order to defend, students must be enrolled for at least two credits. For students who do not have funding that pays for tuition in the defense quarter, the Department will pay for the two credits in the quarter for which the defense is scheduled. This is a one-time benefit and may not be repeated if the defense occurs later than the quarter for which funding was requested. In order to qualify for the departmental tuition payment, the student must officially set up his or her defense with the History Graduate Office and the Graduate School by the end of the quarter preceding the defense quarter. The History Department will not pay the Graduate Registration Waiver Fee or for a student's credits in the quarter(s) after the defense.

Emergency Aid for History students via the Hobart Meade Fund

Information on Graduate School funding

The list of Graduate School Fellowships  

Graduate students should also consider utilizing the resources provided by Graduate Funding Information Services (GFIS) , located in the Allen Library Consultation Studio.

Students are also encouraged to look for funding from the Graduate Student and Professional Senate (GPSS) . 

The Graduate Studies Committee evaluates the applications for fellowship funding on: academic merit and course performance; progress toward the degree in a timely manner; performance of duties in any previous departmental position (TA, RA, reader, tutor, etc.); faculty support and endorsement; prior types of funding. Students are ranked. New Ph.C.'s are given priority for departmental dissertation fellowships. The committee makes every effort to balance out types of funding across different kinds of appointments (TA, RA, fellowship) over the course of a graduate student's career.

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Materials for Annual Review and Funding Applications:

2023 - 24 Annual Review and Funding Application Information

2023-24 Annual Review and Funding Timeline

2023 Faculty Instructions for Annual Review

History's Departmental Funding Banking Form:

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Department of History

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The Johns Hopkins Department of History welcomes graduate students as members of a diverse and congenial community of scholars. The department takes seriously the idea that graduate students are junior colleagues with much to contribute. The program is designed for students who wish to proceed directly to the PhD degree and aims primarily to train students for careers as research scholars and university teachers. At the same time, we also recognize and support students who choose to pursue other career option.

The Hopkins history department is the oldest PhD program in history in the United States and the recipients of our degrees hold distinguished positions in universities and colleges in this country and abroad.

The department continues to pioneer new areas of research. The department’s particular areas of strength include the United States (including especially African American history, colonial America, and the history of capitalism), Europe from medieval times through the 20 th century, the Atlantic world, modern Africa, Early Modern Empires (including especially the Spanish, Ottoman, and Qing empires), and Jewish history. Most members of our faculty focus on social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. The department hosts clusters of faculty with common interests in transnational, comparative, legal and urban histories, histories of religion and heterodoxy, gender history, and the Black World. We endeavor to recruit students with a similarly varied set of interests and orientations.

The combination of flexibility, independence, scholarly collegiality, and intensity of intellectual exchange offered by the Hopkins program gives it a distinctive character. The weekly department seminar, held on Monday afternoons from 3:00-4:30pm and attended by faculty and graduate students, is the center of intellectual life in the department. The Monday Seminar – as well as specialized seminars including the Black World, European History, Gender History (known as Geminar), Atlantic World, 20 th Century U.S. History, and East Asian seminars – brings together students, faculty, and invited scholars from outside the university to discuss their research work. These seminars create a lively intellectual community in which graduate students quickly become contributing members.

The Hopkins history program places a high premium on careful mentoring of students by individual faculty. The decision to nominate any student for admission is made by the one or more faculty members who will become that student’s sponsor or sponsors. Applicants should indicate the proposed field of specialization and their interest in working with a specific cluster of faculty at the time of application.

The main criteria for admissions are outstanding intellectual promise and an evident talent for, and strong commitment to, research. Each applicant is required to submit a sample of written work, preferably a research paper that demonstrates careful use of primary documents. An ability to read at least one foreign language is also expected.

The department began offering fellowships for six years beginning with the class that matriculated in 2023. Normally, each student is required to perform four semesters of supervised teaching or research duties at some point during the graduate program, most often as a teaching assistant during the second through fourth years. For classes that matriculated prior to 2023, the department offers write-up grants conferring tuition and stipend on a competitive basis. Recipients of these grants must plan to defend their dissertations within the funded year and are expected to focus entirely on the completion of their dissertation.

The Butler Prize

The Butler Prize is awarded annually to the best paper written by a first-year student. Each year the chair of the department appoints a faculty committee to select the winner. Papers are normally nominated by faculty sponsors. The prize was established in 1957 by Dr. Alexander Butler, a graduate of the department.

Graduate Student Resources

• Graduate Handbook
• Policy on Mentoring Commitments for PhD Students and Faculty Advisors
• Graduate Student Directory
• Guide to the Advisor-Advisee Relationship
• Sample Timeline for the First Year Paper
• Minor Field Agreement Form
• Comprehensive Field Agreement Form
• Funding Renewal Form
• How to Prepare for your Dissertation

Department of History

Warning message, history research travel grants.

The History Department will fund research travel for PhD students with two types of awards to be disbursed between  July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

History Research Travel Grants (HRTGs) will be available both to pre-candidacy students (maximum award $2,000) and post-candidacy students (maximum award $3,000). For the latter, students must have defended the prospectus and advanced to candidacy by the time they take up the grant funding (not necessarily at the time of application).

Applications are due by March 31 and awards will be announced in April . The grants will be distributed on a competitive basis. Priority will be given to those students who do not have access to other sources of funding, whether external or internal to Yale (such as RITM or MacMillan). Applications from all fields will be considered. Applications will be evaluated by the Graduate Advisory Committee and in consultation with the Chair. In any given instance, the committee may fund only part of the request.

On completion of your research travel and before May 31, 2025 , you are required to submit to the DGS and department registrar a one-page report on the research completed with the use of this award.

All travel must adhere to the University’s guidelines on travel during the pandemic, which may change over the funding period. See this site for further details:  https://covid19.yale.edu/travel-policy . 

Reimbursement Policies and Procedures

All funds will be disbursed as reimbursements and must follow all university rules for research expenditures. Receipts need to be submitted within ten days after completing your travel. Receipts over 120 days old will not be reimbursed.

• All reservations have to be in your name
• Any airfare must be Economy class only
• All expenses must be paid for with your credit card. We cannot process the reimbursement if the payment was made by anyone other than you.
• Travel insurance is not reimburseable. 
• Travelers are permitted to use Airbnb for lodging.  The preferred method for arranging Airbnb lodging is the Yale Airbnb for Business platform, using a Yale email address.

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Funding opportunities for graduate students in history.

With ongoing budget cuts at public universities and a still-disastrous job market, funding for graduate and postdoctoral research is more important than ever.  Many grad students know that finding dissertation fellowships and postdocs can be a catch-as-catch-can experience, with no place where knowledge about different funding sources is really centralized.  We put together this list of funding sources for historical research a while ago, so some information may not be up-to-date, but we will try to get them all as current as possible in the near future.

Please note: deadlines and requirements may have changed , and applicants should always refer to the official guidelines for any grant or fellowship for definite information. Web links are embedded in many descriptions below.  

Dissertation Fellowships

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships:  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships makes possible a year of supported research and writing, to help students complete their dissertation.

The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship:  The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner.

Fellowships of the Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges:  The dissertation fellowship is intended for scholars who have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. or the M.F.A. except the dissertation; this fellowship is intended for scholars in the final stage of their dissertation and aims, above all, to help the fellow complete the final requirements for the degree during the year of residency. Dissertation fellowship recipients will receive compensation equivalent to the compensation of a starting one-year instructor at the host institution.

Miller Center Fellowship in Politics and History:   The Miller Center Fellowship program is a competitive program for individuals completing their dissertations on American politics, foreign policy and world politics, or the impact of global affairs on the United States. The program provides up to eight $20,000 grants to support one year of research and writing.

Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to offer fellowships generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for dissertation research in the  humanities or related social sciences  in  original sources . The purposes of this fellowship program are to:

• help junior scholars in the humanities and related social science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original sources
• enable dissertation writers to do research wherever relevant sources may be, rather than just where financial support is available
• encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related repositories in the U.S. and abroad, and
• provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the future.

The program offers about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships a year. Each provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for periods ranging from 9-12 months. Each fellow will receive an additional $1,000 upon participating in a symposium on research in original sources and submitting a report acceptable to CLIR on the research experience. Thus the maximum award will be $25,000.

USF Phi Alpha Theta:  Doctoral Scholarship program for advanced study by graduate student members who are pursuing a Ph.D. in History and who have passed general examinations by February 15.

John Carter Brown Library Short Term Fellowships:  The library offers fellowships to research projects using its collections. These fellowships are for two to four months and are open to U.S. and foreign scholars engaged in pre- or post-doctoral research. Graduate students must pass all examinations and be at the dissertation stage before January 2011.

Newberry Library (Chicago) Short Term Fellowships:  These short-term fellowships are generally restricted to post-doctoral scholars, Ph.D. candidates, or holders of other terminal degrees from outside of the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections.

H-net Funding Opportunities:  H-net provides a list of various kinds of funding opportunities (fellowships, prizes, etc) in multiple areas.

The McNeil Center for Early American Studies Fellowships:   The McNeil Center offers several pre-doctoral dissertation fellowships each year for a term of nine months, beginning 1 September. Advanced graduate students from any PhD-granting institution who are in the dissertation research or writing stage are eligible to compete for these fellowships, which are open to scholars in any discipline for projects focusing on North America and the Caribbean before 1850.

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships:   The dissertation fellowships provide one year of support for individuals working to complete a dissertation leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree.

The Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women Studies:  The Women’s Studies Fellowships are provided to Ph.D. candidates at institutions in the United States who will complete their dissertations during the fellowship year. The Fellows received $2,000 to be used for expenses connected with the dissertation. These may include, but are not limited to, travel, books, microfilming, taping, and computer services.

Frederick Douglass Institute, University of Rochester: Pre-doctoral Fellowship:   The principal aim of this fellowship is to expedite the completion of the Fellow’s dissertation.

The Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship:   The Louisville Institute’s Dissertation Fellowship program is designed to support the final year Ph.D. or Th.D. dissertation writing for students engaged in research pertaining to North American Christianity, especially projects related to Christian faith and life, religious institutions, and pastoral leadership.

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Scholarship Awards:  The 9-month Fellowship Program offers exceptional Latinos who have a master’s degree or higher unparalleled exposure to hands-on experience in the public policy areas. This fellowship is designed for new entrant students.

Dissertation Grants, Schlesinger Library – Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study:  The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites scholars whose dissertation research requires use of the library’s collections to apply for research support.

Ford Foundation Fellowship Predoctoral Fellowships:  The predoctoral fellowships provide three years of support for individuals engaged in graduate study leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree.

Oral History Grant, Schlesinger Library – Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study:  The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America invites scholars who are conducting oral history interviews relevant to the history of women or gender in the United States to apply for support of up to $3,000.

HUD Office of University Partnerships: Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant:   The DDRG program empowers a new generation of scholars to develop and conduct applied research on policy-relevant housing and urban development issues.

Smithsonian Fellowship Opportunities:   The Smithsonian provides various predoctoral, doctoral, and postdoctoral fellowships.

Boren Fellowships:   Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. Boren Fellowships support study and research in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Gaius Charles Bolin Fellowships at Williams College:  These fellowships are designed to promote diversity on college faculties by encouraging students from underrepresented groups to complete a terminal graduate degree and to pursue careers in college teaching.

The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies Pre-doctoral Fellowships:  Since its inception in 1981, the Woodson Institute’s Residential Fellowship Program has attracted outstanding scholars in the humanities and social sciences who work on a wide array of topics in African-American and African Studies, as well as related fields. These two-year fellowships—offered at the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels—are designed to facilitate the writing of dissertations or manuscripts and provide successful applicants the opportunity to discuss and exchange works-in-progress both with each other and the larger intellectual community of the University. Preference is given to applicants whose research is substantially completed, thus providing them the maximum amount of time to complete their manuscripts within the fellowship term. Two-year predoctoral research fellowship. Annual stipend: $20,000, plus health insurance.

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program:  This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability—selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise—to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.

The Omohundro Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship  is a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in any area of early American studies. This fellowship is awarded annually. A principal criterion for selection is that the candidate’s dissertation or other manuscript have significant potential as a distinguished, book-length contribution to scholarship. Applicants may not have previously published or have under contract a scholarly monograph, and they must have met all requirements for the doctorate before commencing the fellowship. Foreign nationals are eligible. Those who have earned the Ph.D. and begun careers are also encouraged to apply. Applications may be submitted in hard copy or electronically.

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Dissertation Fellowship: SHAFR invites applications for its dissertation completion fellowship. SHAFR will make two, year-long awards, in the amount of $20,000 each, to support the writing and completion of the doctoral dissertation in each academic year. These highly competitive fellowships will support the most promising doctoral candidates in the final phase of completing their dissertations. SHAFR membership is required. Applicants should be candidates for the PhD in a humanities or social science doctoral program (most likely history), must have been admitted to candidacy, and must be at the writing stage, with all substantial research completed by the time of the award. Applicants should be working on a topic in the field of U.S. foreign relations history or international history, broadly defined, and must be current members of SHAFR. Because successful applicants are expected to finish writing the dissertation during the tenure of the fellowship, they should not engage in teaching opportunities or extensive paid work, except at the discretion of the Fellowship Committee. At the termination of the award period, recipients must provide a one page (250-word) report to the SHAFR Council on the use of the fellowship, to be considered for publication in the society newsletter

Adelle and Erwin Tomash Graduate Fellowship: The Charles Babbage Institute is accepting applications for the 2014-2015 Adelle and Erwin Tomash Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship will be awarded to a graduate student for doctoral dissertation research in the history of computing. The fellowship may be held at the recipient’s home academic institution, the Charles Babbage Institute, or any other location with appropriate research facilities. The stipend is $14,000. It is intended for students who have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the research and writing of the dissertation. Preference will be given to applicants indicating a need to use CBI materials, planning research in residence at CBI, and willing to make a brief presentation of their research findings to CBI staff. Questions pertaining to collection content and access can be directed to R. Arvid Nelsen, CBI Archivist, at  [email protected] . Tomash Fellowship recipients must remain students in good standing throughout the term of their fellowship, but there is no restriction on holding other fellowships, scholarships, or awards concurrent to the Tomash Fellowship.

American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowships   are available to women who will complete their dissertation writing between July 1, 2014, and June 30, 2015. Applicants must have completed all course work, passed all preliminary examinations, and received approval for their research proposals or plans by the preceding November. Students holding fellowships for writing a dissertation in the year prior to the AAUW fellowships year are not eligible. Open to applicants in all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering, and math fields or researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply.

American Educational Research Association (AERA) Minority Fellowship: In 1991, the Council of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) established the AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research to provide support for doctoral dissertation research. The purposes of the program are to advance education research by outstanding minority graduate students and to improve the quality and diversity of university faculties. This program offers doctoral fellowships to enhance the competitiveness of outstanding minority scholars for academic appointments at major research universities. It supports fellows conducting education research and provides mentoring and guidance toward the completion of their doctoral studies. Each fellowship award is for 1 year, beginning July 1 or later, and is nonrenewable. Fellowships are awarded for doctoral dissertation research conducted under faculty sponsorship in any accredited university in the United States.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship: ten or more dissertation fellowships are awarded each year to graduate students who would complete the writing of a dissertation within the award year. These fellowships of $20,000 each are designed to contribute to the support of the doctoral candidate to enable him or her to complete the thesis in a timely manner and are only appropriate for students approaching the final year of their Ph.D. work. This fellowship is not for support of doctoral research. Applications are evaluated in comparison with each other and not in competition with the postdoctoral research grant proposals. Applicants may be citizens of any country and studying at colleges or universities in any country. Questions that interest the foundation concern violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects. Dissertations with no relevance to understanding human violence and aggression will not be supported. Priority will also be given to areas and methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other funding sources.

Harry S. Truman Dissertation Year Fellowship: Since it first opened its Research Room in 1959, the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum has assisted more than 14,100 historians, writers and scholars, representing more than 40 nations. From the beginning, the Truman Library Institute — the nonprofit partner of the presidential library — has provided grants-in-aid for researchers; the total granted now stands at nearly $2.7 million. Today, Research Grants, Dissertations Year Fellowships, and the biennial Scholar’s Award and Harry S. Truman Book Award provide assistance to emerging and established scholars whose contributions illuminate the critical issues of Truman’s presidency and legacy. Applications for funding will be considered by the Truman Library Institute’s Committee on Research, Scholarship and Education.

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation: The Foundation’s Dissertation Fellowship is for up to $25,000 for advanced doctoral students who are completing dissertations that inform the Foundation’s mission: advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. To be eligible, candidates must demonstrate superior academic achievement, have successfully defended their dissertation proposals, and be enrolled full-time in a US graduate degree program. The fellowship is a one-time award of up to $25,000, which may be used for a period of not less than nine months and up to 18 months, beginning in June 2014.

Marcus Garvey Foundation Research Fellowship: This fellowship looks to support doctoral candidates doing primary research in the humanities and social sciences on topics related to Africa and the African diaspora. Those doctoral candidates using archival collections and/or conducting oral histories are especially encouraged to apply. Research fellows receive grants of $500 to help defray research expenses.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs Fellowship Awards: Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, or other scholarly resources in the humanities. Projects may be at any stage of development.

AHA Research Grants  

The Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the Western Hemisphere   are available to support research in the history of the Western hemisphere; individual grants do not exceed $1,000. The Michael Kraus Research Grant   in colonial American history, with particular reference to the intercultural aspects of American and European relations, offers cash awards of up to $800. The Littleton-Griswold Grant  offers grants of up to $1,000 for research in U.S. legal history and the field of law and society.

The Bernadotte Schmitt Grants  support research in the history of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Individual grants will not exceed $1,000.

See http://www.historians.org/prizes/Grants.htm .

Research Travel Fellowships

The CSCHS Research Travel Grant in California Legal History .  The California Supreme Court Historical Society has established a Research Travel Grant to defray the expenses of graduate students and law students at accredited U.S. universities and law schools who are researching California legal history for the purpose of preparing an article or other paper.

This grant was funded by the generosity of California Supreme Court Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar (Ret.) and David M. Werdegar, M.D., in honor of Selma Moidel Smith, Editor-in-Chief of  California Legal History . Additional donations are welcome to ensure the continuation of this grant program.

Huggins-Quarles Award: Organization of American Historians:   Named for Benjamin Quarles and Nathan Huggins, two outstanding historians of the African American past, the Huggins-Quarles Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians to one or two graduate students of color to assist them with expenses related to travel to research collections for the completion of the PhD dissertation. These awards were established to promote greater diversity in the historical profession. In 2015, the committee will award $1,500 if there is one recipient, or $750 per person if there are two recipients.

North Caroliniana Society’s Archie K. Davis Fellowships: To promote more extensive and intensive research in North Carolina’s history and culture, the North Caroliniana Society offers on a competitive basis Archie K. Davis Fellowships to assist scholars in gaining access to resources contributing to knowledge of the state’s past. Modest stipends vary and are intended to cover a portion of travel and subsistence expenses while fellows conduct research in North Caroliniana. In evaluating proposals, the Society considers the qualifications of applicants; individual need; quantity, quality, and location of sources; length of research stay; plans for publication or other “product”; and, especially, potential of subject to advance among citizens of the state knowledge and understanding of their own history and culture.

The Inter-American Foundation Grassroots Development Fellowships: IAF Fellowships support dissertation research in Latin America and the Caribbean undertaken by students who have advanced to Ph.D. candidacy in a university in the United States. Fellows must be U.S. citizens or citizens of the independent Latin American countries.

WARA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship:  The West African Research Association awards summer fellowships to conduct research in West Africa.

Fulbright-Hays: Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad:   This program provides grants to colleges and universities to fund individual doctoral students who conduct research in other countries, in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of six to 12 months.

TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowship:   Fellowships are awarded to one or more graduate students enrolled in a social science program at an accredited U.S. college or university and studying the African Diaspora. (It is not clear if this fellowship is still being awarded.)

The Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Travel Fellowships: The purpose of this fellowship is to facilitate library and archival research in business or economic history. Individual grants range from $1,000 to $3,000. Three categories of applicants will be eligible for grants: 1) Harvard University graduate students in history, economics, or business administration, whose research requires travel to distant archives or repositories; 2) graduate students or nontenured faculty in those fields from other universities, in the U.S. and abroad, whose research requires travel to Baker Library and other local archives; and 3) Harvard College undergraduates writing senior theses in these fields whose research requires travel away from Cambridge.

To apply, send a CV, a summary of past academic research (of 1-2 pages), and a detailed description of the research you wish to undertake (of 2-3 pages). Applicants must indicate the amount of money requested (up to $3,000). Please also arrange to have one letter of reference sent independently of the application. The deadline for receipt of applications is November 1 of the calendar year preceding that in which the fellowship is to be used. All materials should be sent to Walter A. Friedman, Connell 301A, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA 02163. E-mail: [email protected] .

Filson Historical Society Fellowships : The Master’s Thesis Fellowships provides $500 for an M.A. candidate at the thesis stage. Full support of a single $500 award is available for a one-week fellowship period to encourage use of our research collections by M.A. students developing and researching thesis topics. Partial support is available for students residing in Kentucky who travel from beyond the greater Louisville area. Filson Fellowships are avaiable to Ph.D.s or doctoral candidates at the dissertation stage. Full awards are $500 per week and may be awarded for up to two weeks. Awards must be used within eighteen months of their receipt. Partial support is available for scholars residing in Kentucky who travel from beyond the greater Louisville area. The Ballard Breaux Visiting Fellowships are avaliable to Ph.D.s An award of $2000 support for post doctoral scholars living outside of Kentucky is available for a one-month residence. Partial support is available for scholars residing in Kentucky who travel from beyond the greater Louisville area. Applicants for Breaux Visiting Fellowships are automatically considered for Filson Fellowships.

Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller Graduate Research Grant: The Naval History and Heritage Command, Department of the Navy, using non-appropriated funds, is offering one research grant in U.S. naval history to be used during 2013. The grant is named in honor of the late Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller, USN, a former Director of Naval History, for his contributions to U.S. naval history. The grant is intended to assist a graduate student in the research and writing of U.S. naval history in fulfillment of the requirements of a master’s or doctoral degree by helping to defray the costs of travel, living expenses, and document duplication related to the research process for a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation. The stipend is an amount up to $2,500, depending on the research expenses anticipated. The award will be made on a competitive basis and will be announced in May 2013. In accepting the award, an applicant engages to work on a study of U. S. naval history intended for publication. Payment will be made according to a mutually agreeable arrangement after commencement of research. Applicants must be citizens of the United States enrolled in a master’s or doctoral degree program in history or a closely related field in a recognized graduate school.

Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship: The Harvard Business School and the Newcomen Society of the United States support a postdoctoral fellowship in business history for twelve months of residence and research at the Harvard Business School. Fellowships normally run for the academic year, July 1 to June 30; the stipend is currently $60,000. The purpose of the award is to enable scholars who have received a Ph.D. in history, economics, or a related discipline within the past ten years to improve their professional acquaintance with business and economic history, to increase their skills as they relate to this field, and to engage in research that will benefit from the resources of the Harvard Business School and the Boston-area scholarly community. The successful applicant will participate in the school’s business history courses, seminars, and case development activities.

The Princeton Society of Fellows , an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences, invites applications for the 2014-2017 Fellowship competition. Four three-year Postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded this year. The stipend for the academic year 2015-16 will be approximately $80,000. In addition, fellows are provided with a shared office, a personal computer, a research account of $5000 a year, access to university grants, benefits and other resources. Fellows are expected to reside in or near Princeton during the academic year in order to attend weekly seminars and participate fully in the intellectual life of the Society.

The Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities ,  with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of postdoctoral fellows in the humanities for the academic year 2015-2016. Fellows newly appointed for 2015-2016 must have received their PhD between 1 January 2013 and 1 July 2015. The Fellowship Stipend for 2015-2016 is $61,000. Medical benefits are provided, and guaranteed housing is available. There is a $6,000 research allowance per annum. Fellows are appointed as Lecturers in appropriate departments at Columbia University and as Postdoctoral Research Fellows. The fellowship is renewable for a second and third year.  In the first year, Fellows teach one course per semester. At least one of these courses will be in the undergraduate general education program: Contemporary Civilization, Literature Humanities, Music Humanities, Art Humanities, Asian Civilizations, Asian Humanities, or Global Cultures, including those of Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. For more information on Columbia’s Core Curriculum please visit  www.college.columbia.edu/core/ . The second course may be a departmental course, the design of which will be determined jointly by the Fellow and the Fellow’s academic department. In the second and third years, Fellows teach one course per year, leaving one semester free of teaching responsibilities. The courses taught in the second and third years of the fellowship may be departmental courses or Core courses as described above; however, at least two of the four courses taught over the three Fellowship years must be in the Core. In addition to teaching and research, the duties of Fellows include attendance at the Society’s lectures and events as well as active participation in the intellectual life of the Society and of the department with which the Fellow is affiliated.

The Michigan Society of Fellows , under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, was established in 1970 with endowment grants from the Ford Foundation and the Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds. Each year the Society selects four outstanding applicants for appointment to  three-year fellowships  in the social, physical, and life sciences, and in the professional schools. In 2007 the Mellon Foundation awarded a grant to add four Mellon Fellows annually in the humanities, expanding the number of fellowships awarded each year from four to eight. The newly appointed  Postdoctoral Fellows  join a unique interdisciplinary community composed of their peers as well as the  Senior Fellows of the Society , who include many of the University’s leading scholars.  Alumni Fellows of the Society  have gone on to become distinguished scholars at institutions around the world. The Chair of the Society is Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan

The Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity: As part of a continuing commitment to building a culturally diverse intellectual community and advancing scholars from underrepresented groups in higher education, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Postdoctoral Program for Faculty Diversity is pleased to announce the availability of postdoctoral research appointments for a period of two years. The purpose of the Program is to develop scholars from underrepresented groups for possible tenure track appointments at the University of North Carolina and other research universities. Postdoctoral scholars will be engaged full-time in research and may teach only one course per fiscal year.

The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology honors the contribution of Brooke Hindle to the work of the Society for the History of Technology and is made possible thanks to the generosity of his family. The fellowship is for $10,000 and may be used, as further detailed below, for any purpose connected with research or writing in the history of technology for a period of not less than four months during the year following the award. Applicants must hold a doctorate in the history of technology or a related field, normally awarded within the preceding four years, or expect to have graduated by the time of the award. (Those who graduated earlier and can demonstrate good reason why they should be considered as being at an early stage in their postdoctoral career—e.g., because of family commitments—may apply at the discretion of the committee chair.) Other awards may be held in conjunction with the Fellowship. The proposal must be in a field related to the history of technology. Applicants should be intending either to prepare a dissertation for publication as articles or as a monograph, whether or not this involves fresh primary research, or to develop a new project based on primary research.

Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships : This is the second stage of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program, which provides support for young scholars. The first part of this program—the  Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships —makes possible a year of supported research and writing, to help students complete their dissertation. The second part of the program provides support for a year following the completion of the doctorate for scholars to advance their research. A grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports this program.

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program :  One Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow will be appointed to the Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities for the whole academic year, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017, and will be awarded a stipend of $40,000.  He or she will teach a one-semester undergraduate course; participate in the collegial life of the Center for the Humanities, which sponsors conferences, lectures, and colloquia; and give one public lecture.  The Fellow will be provided with an office at the Center for the Humanities, and will be expected to work there on weekdays while the university is in session, and to reside in Middletown.  The themes for 2015-2016 are listed here .  Scholars whose interests bear upon one of the chosen themes are encouraged to apply for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences is offering approximately five postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and social sciences for the academic year 2015-2016. Fellows will teach one course each semester, complete scholarly work, and participate in the academic and intellectual communities of the departments with which they are affiliated and across the Dietrich School.  Within the Dietrich School, rich opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange are available in the Humanities Center, the World History Center and in a number of vibrant multidisciplinary programs.

We invite applications from qualified candidates in the humanities and social sciences who have completed the oral defense at the time of application and who will graduate with the PhD by August 2015.  Individuals who graduated before September 1, 2013 are not eligible; there will be no exceptions to these criteria. The annual stipend will be $45,000. Fellows may apply for an additional one-year renewal.

Archives that Offer Funding for Dissertation Research

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library (for use of Langum Family Papers or the de Mattos Family Papers) (Springfield, Illinois)

American Antiquarian Society (Worcester)

American Indian Studies Program at Michigan State University Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award in American Indian Studies (East Lansing) (Finishing Grant)

American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia)

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (funds research to a dozen institutions)

Bancroft Library Study Award (Berkeley, CA) (For UC grad students only)

Baylor Institute for Oral History 
Research Fellowship (Waco, TX)

Beinecke Library (New Haven)

Boston Athenaeum (Boston)

Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, University of Oklahoma

Center for Historical Research at the Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)

Clark Center Short Term Fellowships (UCLA)

Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University

Clements Library, Jacob Price Visiting Research (Ann Arbor)

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Fellowship at the Rockefeller Library (Williamsburg)

Cuban Heritage Collection Research Fellowship (U. of Miami)

David Library of the American Revolution (Washington’s Crossing, PA)

Duke University Library (Durham, N.C.)

Emory University Library, Jean Harvey Slappy Research Fellowship (Atlanta)

Filson Historical Society Fellowship (Kentucky)

Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington D.C.)

Francis A. Countway Library Fellowships in the History of Medicine; Harvard University (Boston)

Friends of the Longfellow House Research Fellowships (Cambridge)

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

Gest Fellowship for Quaker Studies (Haverford College)

Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Numerous New England locations)

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (NYC)

Harry Ransom Library (Texas)

Harry S. Truman Library Institute (Independence, MO)

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library (West Branch, Iowa)

Historic New Orleans Collection; Dianne Woest Fellowship (New Orleans)

Howard Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders (New Haven)

Huntington Library (San Marino, CA) (Many of them that range from U.S. Western History, History of Science, British History, California History))

John Carter Brown Library (Providence, RI) (Many of them)

John F. Kennedy Library (Boston) (Many of them

Kentucky Historical Society (Frankfort, KY)

Kluge Center Fellowships (Washington D.C.)

Lewis Walpole Library Fellowships (Connecticut)

Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia)

Lillian Gary Taylor Fellowship in American Literature (UVA)

Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore, check on funding)

Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston) (Many of them)

McNeil Center for Early American Studies (Philadelphia)

Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, William Randolph Hearst Fellowships

Nantucket Historical Association 
E. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Thayer Verney Fellowship (Nantucket)

National Maritime Museum Caird Short Term Research Fellowship (Greenwich, U.K.)

National Sporting Library and Museum; John Daniels Fellowship (Horse and Field Sports) (Middleburg, VA)

Naval War College 
The Edward S. Miller Research Fellowship in Naval History (Newport, R.I.)

Newberry Library (Chicago) (Many of them)

New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (New England)

New York Public Library Research Fellowships (NYC)

New York State Archives 
Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program (Albany)

North Caroliniana Society 
Archie K. Davis Fellowships

Peabody Essex Museum 
Frances E. Malamy Fellowship (Salem, MA)

Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (PACHS) (sh to use the collections of two or more institutions in the PACHS consortium.)

Princeton University Library Research Grants (Princeton, N.J.)

Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company (Philadelphia)

Quaker Collection, Haverford College;
Gest Fellowships (Outside Philadelphia)

The Research Center for Urban Cultural History at the University of Massachusetts Boston; Flaherty Visiting Fellowship

Rockefeller Research Center (Tarrytown, N.Y.)

Roosevelt Institute (Hyde Park, N.Y.)

Smithsonian Institute (Washington D.C.)

-Among others: Latino Studies Fellowship Program

Society of the Cincinnati, Tyree Lamb Fellowship (Washington D.C.)

Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. (Tennessee)

University of Chicago Special Collections; Robert L. Platzman Memorial Fellowship

University of North Carolina Greensboro University Library

University of Wisconsin, Madison Library Grant-in-Aid

U.S. Army Military History Institute 
General & Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Military History Research Grant (Carlisle, PA)

Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, VA)

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (L. A.)

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies (Dallas)

Winterthur (Delaware)

White House Historical Association (D.C.)

Yale Center for British Art (New Haven)

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PhD Financial Aid

The Department offers various types of financial aid to students in the doctoral program. The application for admission serves as the application for financial aid; no separate application for funding is needed. All students admitted to the program are also admitted with a funding package.

    Department Fellowship

Stipend ($33,800 in 2022-2023) and tuition support (nine credits and/or thesis research, depending on year in program) for five years, two additional years of tuition support, and health insurance for the duration of the fellowship. Students must maintain good academic standing for funding to be renewed. Students receiving these awards normally serve for three years as Teaching Assistants assigned to work with members of the faculty. Two of the five fellowship years are non-service. All first-year students are exempt from service requirements. A second year without service is guaranteed, and can be taken after the student has passed comprehensive exams. Students who receive external grants during their five-year fellowship period have the opportunity to apply to extend their funding for use in the sixth or seventh year.

    Environmental History Fellowship

Each year the Georgetown History Departments awards a full five-year fellowship in environmental history. Holders of this fellowship may study any part of the world, in any period. Students interested in this opportunity should apply to one of the nine fields the Department offers and make clear their interest in environmental history in the application. No separate application for the Environmental Fellowship is required. Students holding this fellowship have no formal service requirements to the Department. In other respects the terms are the same as with renewable Department Fellowships. (see above). Students interested in applying for this fellowship should contact Professor John McNeill .

    Fellowship in the History of the Early Modern World

Starting in 2009, the History Department will occasionally award a five-year fellowship for students interested in early modern history with a global reach. Students interested in this opportunity should apply to one of the nine fields the Department offers and make clear their interest in environmental history in the application. No separate application for the Environmental Fellowship is required. Students holding this fellowship have no formal service requirements to the Department. In other respects the terms are the same as with renewable Department Fellowships (see above). Students interested in applying for this fellowship should contact Professor Alison Games .

    Funding Past the Fith Year

Students who have exhausted their five-year funding package are eligible to apply for Department funding to support their sixth and/or seventh year of study. These stipends are offered via annual competitive review and are dependent on availability of funds.

    Evan Armstrong North Graduate Research Award Fund

This fund has been established by Dr. Diane Tarantino North, in the memory of her son, Evan Armstrong North, a distinguished graduate of our Master of Arts in Global, International and Comparative History (MAGIC) program who went on to win a fellowship in our Ph.D. program, where he continued to do outstanding work. Evan North’s extraordinarily promising scholarly career was cut tragically short by his untimely death in April 2011 at the age of 28. His mother is hopeful that Evan’s “legacy as a seeker of truth, creator of knowledge, and dedicated teacher will endure through the establishment of this Fund.”

The income from the promised endowment will support a merit-based research award for a graduate of the MAGIC program who has been admitted to the Georgetown History Ph.D. program, or—in years when no MAGIC graduate joins the Ph.D. program—for a graduate of another Master’s program who has joined our doctoral program. The History Department’s Graduate Studies Committee will select award recipients in accordance with its policies and procedures.

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It is our goal to provide every student with the financial support they need to focus on their studies. All students admitted to the PhD program in history are provided with a six-year funding package consisting of full tuition, stipend, and medical and dental insurance.  

The plan combines six terms of fellowship support with six terms of appointment as a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI), as well as summer support during the first six years. Students who have advanced to candidacy may receive up to $10K funding for research, study, and travel, and all students are eligible for supplemental funding to attend conferences and prepare for the job market.

Beyond the sixth year, most graduate students in our program receive additional support for the time required to complete the dissertation, including teaching opportunities, departmental fellowships, and tuition-only fellowships. Funding is conditional upon satisfactory progress toward the degree and satisfactory fulfillment of teaching obligations.

Research Support

The University of Michigan offers many forms of research support for graduate students across different departments.   Rackham Graduate School  provides opportunities for conference travel grants, research and travel funds, and specific programs for international research.  Our advanced graduate students have had substantial success securing generous multi-term fellowships from  Rackham Graduate School , the U-M Institute for the Humanities  and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies .  Finally, many Area Studies Centers offer graduate student funding for research, travel, and language study; students should contact the appropriate center directly.

Students are also encouraged to apply for funding from outside sources. Such awards provide financial assistance and recognize our students' accomplishments and promise as researchers and teachers. To reward our students who secure external funding, the program provides health insurance and "top-up" fellowships to a level equal to what would have been received from the department for the period of time covered by the grant, if necessary.

History graduate students have secured grants from several prestigious external organizations, including the  Fulbright Foundation ,  Javits Foundation ,  Social Science Research Council ,  Mellon Foundation ,  National Science Foundation ,  Ford Foundation , and  Foreign Language and Area Studies  (FLAS) to name just a few.

U-M College of LSA International Travel Policy

All U-M students traveling abroad for university-related purposes (i.e., participating in study, research, or internship programs organized or supported by LSA departments/units or for which LSA in-residence credit is granted) are bound by the College of LSA International Travel Policy . 

To receive funding/credit for their international experiences, students are required to:

• Register their travel in the MCompass Travel Registry
• Purchase U-M’s Travel Abroad Health Insurance and upload card to MCompass
• Provide contact information in case of emergency on MCompass
• Submit a safety plan if traveling to a U-M Travel Warning/Restriction destination . (Safety plans must be submitted at least 3 weeks prior to departure and MUST be approved before funding can be released)

Learn more about the requirements and find travel resources on the LSA Travel website . You can also find additional resources on Global Michigan .

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Do i need to apply for funding as an incoming student.

All incoming students receive the same basic package of funding. No separate application is necessary.

Are international students eligible for fellowship funding?

Yes, all students admitted to our program will receive a six-year funding package, regardless of citizenship.

Do I need a separate application for the FLAS fellowship?

Yes, applicants should complete a FLAS application. This is separate from your graduate application. Refer to the FLAS website  for more information. The FLAS application deadline is January 15th (11:59 p.m. EST).

When will I receive my first fellowship check?

Your fellowship stipend will be transferred into your personal bank account on the Friday before the start of the Fall term. The program will automatically enter tuition funding into your U-M account to pay for your courses.

Do you provide students with funding for research and attending conferences?

Yes. There are many sources of supplemental funding from the department and the graduate school.

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Overview Each student will be eligible to apply for grants to cover one trip to present at a major conference and one dissertation-related research trip during the course of her/his graduate career. Applications are made available in February. Applications will be reviewed by the Financial Aid Committee, and awards will be made on a competitive basis. Students who have received prior travel grants are eligible to apply, but priority will be given to those who have not received them.

Travel Awards are dependent upon availability of department funds. The guidelines for air travel reimbursement are determined by the Doctoral Student Travel Grant Policy, and vary by distance ($250 Virtual; $450 California; $900 all other U.S. locations [except those restricted by AB 1887], Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico; $1,500 Asia, Africa, Caribbean, Central or South America, Europe, South Pacific). The total amount provided depends on student need and availability of funds. At a minimum, the department attempts to cover air travel for one conference and one research trip for each student.

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Overview Research travel grants are generally reserved for graduate students who have advanced to candidacy or whose Ph.D. exams are scheduled for that academic year’s summer quarter or earlier. If you have not yet fulfilled either of those conditions, you may still apply for a research travel grant, provided you submit with your application a statement by your adviser certifying the relevance of your proposed trip to your future research goals. Whatever your status, you may not apply for retroactive research travel funding.

Required Materials: • Disclosure of, if any, other research travel funding you’ve received from the department and when you received it • Description of Research Plan (250-word maximum) • List of Archives, libraries, and/or sites you intend to visit, as well as their location • Detailed estimation of total expenses (i.e., airfare, lodging, meals, etc.)

Submit your application materials to the department to review through this link: https://forms.gle/Usr45BWGQu34bUb78 

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Overview To apply for a conference travel grant, you must present a paper at an academic or scholarly conference. You need not be advanced or have Ph.D. exams scheduled. You may apply retroactively for a conference grant to defray travel costs.

Required Materials: • Disclosure of, if any, other conference travel funding you’ve received from the department and when you received it • Name, Date, and Location of Conference, • Copy of Invitation to the Conference • Title and a Brief Abstract of the paper you will be presenting at the conference • A copy of receipts documenting your actual travel expenses (if retroactive application) • Detailed estimation of total expenses (i.e., airfare, lodging, meals, conference registration, etc.)

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Department Grants

The Department of Art History awards grant funding to doctoral students for discipline-specific language study and dissertation research, supplementing the university fellowship package all students receive. Drawing on a number of endowed funds, each student is guaranteed allotted totals for use before and after reaching ABD status, respectively.

Michael Camille Memorial Fund

Donated by colleagues and friends in honor of a former faculty member to support creative research and scholarship in either the art of the Middle Ages or issues of gender and sexuality in the visual arts.

Chagall Fellowship

Given by the American Friends of the Chagall Biblical Message Museum for summer travel and study in France. Recipients are expected to visit the Chagall Museum in Nice during the fellowship tenure.

Dowley Scholarship Fund

Named for a former faculty member , open to art history graduate students for dissertation research/write-up or language study.

Feitler Prize for Best Dissertation

Awarded for the best dissertation defended in the previous calendar year.

Hannah Gray Traveling Fellowship

Honoring a former faculty member and University president, donated to provide dissertation research funding for students studying European art in the period 1400­–1700.

Lipman Fellowship

Given in memory of a former student at the University by his daughter for dissertation write-up or research travel.

Liu Cong Memorial Award

In honor of a former graduate student in Chinese art, an essay prize awarded every spring to a graduate scholar at the University for outstanding contributions to the study of the art and visual culture of Asia. CAEA link

Edward Maser Fellowship

Given by Inge Maser in honor of Edward Maser to support graduate students studying Baroque art and, secondarily, to support graduate students studying the decorative arts.

Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship in Archaeology

Awarded annually by the Ryerson Fellowship Committee to graduate students who are studying Greek and Roman archaeology broadly construed. Students may apply for travel grants, pre-dissertation grants, or dissertation year write-up fellowships. The dissertation year write-up fellowship is a final year (sometimes also called 6th year) of funding to enable a student to focus full time on the completion of the dissertation.  In the absence of qualified candidates who are studying Greek and Roman archaeology, fellowship funds will be available to graduate students who are studying Near Eastern archaeology and other related fields. Past recipients have worked on topics ranging Gandharan sculpture to colonial Latin American architecture.

Robert L. and Mrs. Louise C. Scranton Travel Fellowship

Named for a former faculty member , available for pre-dissertation and dissertation research, with preference for classical art.

Joseph Shapiro Fellowship

Given by friends of Mr. Shapiro for pre-dissertation and dissertation research in the US or abroad.

Kathleen J. Shelton Memorial Traveling Fellowship

Given in memory of a past faculty member for study and travel abroad at the pre-dissertation stage. Preference will be given to students with little or no travel experience in the country of proposed research.

Smart Foundation Fund

Established in honor of the Smart Family to sponsor critically important pre-dissertation and dissertation research.

Joel Snyder Research Fellowship

Honoring a faculty member, for dissertation travel in the US or abroad.

Joshua Taylor Fellowship

Given in memory of a former faculty member for art history graduate student fellowships.

Angela Volan Memorial Fund

In honor of a graduate of the PhD program and scholar of Byzantine art, to support graduate student research travel and related activities.

Robert Christy Research Fellowship Fund

This fund supports University of Chicago Humanities Division PhD students who are conducting dissertation research-related travel or projects in the field of East Asian Art. Applications are due to the Division of the Humanities each spring. Students are not required to be ABD to receive the fellowship; however, it may be held only once during a student's time at the University. For more information or to apply, contact  [email protected]  or visit the Center for the Art of East Asia website for further information.

Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin Awarded 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

Awards Support Emerging Scholars Pursuing Pathbreaking Dissertation Research The American Council of Learned Societies is proud to announce that Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin has been awarded a 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship . The program supports doctoral students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they pursue bold and innovative approaches to dissertation research. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) launched the program in 2023 with the support of the Mellon Foundation to advance a vision for doctoral education that prioritizes openness to new methods and sources, underrepresented voices and perspectives, and scholarly experimentation. The awards are designed to accelerate change in the norms of humanistic scholarship by recognizing those who take risks in the modes, methods, and subjects of their research. Dunn-Salahuddin has been recognized as one of 45 awardees , selected from a pool of more than 700 applicants through a rigorous, interdisciplinary peer review process. Dunn-Salahuddin’s research explores a history of the Black freedom struggle in San Francisco filtered through the lens of environment, race, and infrastructure. Primarily focusing on the Bayview-Hunters Point community of the 1960s and 1970s, the project emphasizes: 1) the production of urban black space in relation to gender and Black political ideology; 2) the development of US nuclear capabilities in San Francisco and issues of environmental justice; 3) the relationship between Black environmentalism and civil rights in Northern California. At its core, this project is an urban black history of post-WWII America that traces the spatial, material, and social conditions of African Americans in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point. Utilizing oral history, community engagement, and original dance film shorts, this project reveals the ways that African Americans informed and shaped their environments, as well as the institutions and systems that governed their lives. “We look forward to following the progress of these remarkable emerging scholars as they explore new research methodologies, forge collaborative partnerships in the co-creation of knowledge, and engage new audiences for humanistic scholarship,” said John Paul Christy, Senior Director of US Programs at ACLS. “Each of these awards is an opportunity for the sector to learn about approaches to fostering the evolution of doctoral education.” Each fellow receives an award of up to $50,000, consisting of a $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year; up to $8,000 for project-related research, training, professional development, and travel expenses; and a $2,000 stipend to support external mentorship that offers new perspectives on the fellow’s project and expands their advising network. With fellows pursuing their research across the country and beyond, ACLS will also provide opportunities for virtual networking and scholarly programming throughout the fellows’ award terms.

Applications for 2024 Karpat Center for Turkish Studies Small Grants are open!

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NSF's New Mentoring Requirements for Graduate Students

The Council of Graduate Schools , with support from NSF ( Award # 2413980 ), is hosting a virtual workshop to help principal investigators respond to NSF's new graduate student mentoring plan and graduate student/postdoctoral individual development plan requirements.

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Stanford students receive Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships

The award provides generous funding for immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate degrees.

Six Stanford graduate students are among this year’s recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans , a merit-based program for immigrants and children of immigrants.

The Stanford students are among 30 outstanding scholars to receive the fellowship, selected for their achievements and their potential to make meaningful contributions to the United States across fields of study. They each will receive up to $90,000 in funding to support their graduate studies at institutions across the country.

Established in 1997, the fellowship program has provided more than $80 million in funding to students studying in a range of fields, from medicine and the arts to law and business.

Following are the 2024 Paul & Daisy Sorors Fellows from Stanford.

Sara Bobok (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Sara Bobok and her family immigrated to the United States from Hungary when she was 2, seeking greater economic opportunity. She is pursuing a JD at Stanford Law School and a master’s degree at Stanford Graduate School of Education.

An advocate for children, Bobok spent high school summers volunteering at a Transylvanian orphanage and dedicated school years to fundraising and organizing donation drives for the children. At Harvard University, she studied social studies with a minor in mathematical sciences to better understand the historical, political, and economic roots of inequality.

Bobok has interned with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, researched bail reform at Harvard Law School, designed civic engagement policy with Boston’s then-City Council President Michelle Wu, and served as a strategist for Hungary’s Momentum party. She also spearheaded a project on Hungarian child trafficking prevention, supporting the very orphanages that inspired her work, and served as director of the tutoring program for the Association to Benefit Children, a youth aid organization in East Harlem, New York. She aspires to be a lawyer, educator, and advocate.

Sharon Loa (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Sharon Loa was born in Puente Piedra, Peru. At age 6, she and her mother relocated to Missoula, Montana. At Stanford, she is pursuing an MD/PhD in cancer biology.

At 16, Loa became a certified pharmacy technician, which led her to wonder how drugs behaved in cells and what effect they had on a patient’s body. Her interest in medicine led her to the University of Montana, where she studied biochemistry. There, Loa worked on research leading to the discovery of three novel protein structures using X-ray crystallography in Professor Klara Briknarova’s lab. Loa also restructured and transformed her university chemistry courses by creating training programs and mentorship opportunities.

After college, Loa received the National Institutes of Health Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. There, she established programs for postbaccalaureate fellows and underrepresented students entering medical schools.

She is on a mission to pioneer diagnostic methods to improve identification and treatment of diseases, deliver compassionate and equitable care, and shape the next generation of physicians through inclusive and innovative education.

Malavika Kannan (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Stanford senior Malavika Kannan was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Central Florida in a tight-knit community of Indian immigrants, including her parents, who emigrated from South India. After completing her bachelor’s degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity this year, she will pursue a Master of Fine Arts in fiction.

Growing up, Kannan became increasingly aware of the impacts of gun violence, police violence, and racism on her community. In high school, she and her classmates organized a school-wide walkout against gun violence. Kannan also worked with such organizations as March For Our Lives, the Women’s March, and Giffords.

Kannan’s experiences as an organizer influenced her writing, an art form she views as inherently political, imaginative, and community oriented. Her writing on identity, culture, and politics has appeared in The Washington Post , Teen Vogue , Refinery29 , and San Francisco Chronicle . She’s also the author of the young adult novel All the Yellow Suns . She intends to become a novelist and professor of literature.

James Occean (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

James Occean was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and immigrated to the U.S. at age 10. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins University. This fall, he will begin a PhD program in cancer biology at Stanford, supported by the fellowship.

Occean earned a BS in biomedical sciences from the University of South Florida, where he was a first-generation college student. There, he conducted epidemiological research to identify predictors and risk factors for intimate partner violence among women in his native country. He also researched how trauma exposure increases susceptibility to psychiatric disorders and studied genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie post-traumatic stress disorder.

After college, Occean earned a postbaccalaureate fellowship at the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health. In Payel Sen’s lab, he investigated how changes in epigenetic modifications and chromatin drive mammalian aging and related decline. He also contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, secured over $140,000 in research grants for his work on DNA hydroxymethylation, and received the Early Career Scholar award from the American Aging Association.

Akshay Swaminathan (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Akshay Swaminathan was born in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, to immigrants from Tamil Nadu, India. At Stanford, he is an MD candidate and is pursuing a PhD in biomedical data science. He is also a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.

After finding an online community of polyglots in high school, Swaminathan developed pedagogical techniques that helped him learn over 10 languages. At Harvard College, he used languages to connect with and serve others. He was executive director of Refresh Bolivia, a global health nonprofit, where he helped build a primary health care clinic serving Indigenous residents in Cochabamba. He led Harvard Chinatown ESL, a program offering free English classes to adult Chinese immigrants. He also published five textbooks to teach English to Chinese speakers. He is the founder of Start Speaking, which helps language learners improve fluency.

As a data scientist, Swaminathan builds data-driven tools for patients, clinicians, and policymakers. At Flatiron Health, he developed methods to analyze observational clinical data to support FDA decision-making. At the virtual mental health company Cerebral, he helped deploy a suicide detection system that served over 500,000 patients across the U.S.

At Stanford, Swaminathan is developing approaches to safely and effectively use artificial intelligence to deliver health care. He plans to become a physician, combining data science and medicine to strengthen health systems in low-resource areas.

Evelyn Wong (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Evelyn Wong was born in East Los Angeles, California, to Teochew-Vietnamese refugees. At Stanford, she is pursuing an MD/PhD in biophysics and is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.

A first-generation college student, Wong graduated from Harvard University, where she studied neuroscience and Spanish literature. As an undergraduate, she received the Herchel Smith Fellowship for her thesis project at the MIT McGovern Institute, developing a next-generation protein sequencing platform. Beyond academics, she mentored young refugees in Boston and worked in free clinics serving undocumented and recently incarcerated individuals. She founded the nonprofit CovEducation, which provides programs and services to bridge academic achievement gaps. As a Marshall Scholar, Wong earned an MPhil from the Division of Medicine at University College London, where she optimized existing neurotechnologies to understand cortical brain function.

At Stanford she is developing flexible electrodes to record neural signals from deep, hard-to-reach structures in the mammalian brain. She is a co-director of the Stanford Asylum Collaborative, providing medical and psychological evaluations to support individuals seeking asylum in the United States. Wong aspires to a career as a physician-neuroengineer, working at the intersection of asylee health and neurotechnology to tackle technical and structural barriers to neuropsychiatric care.

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Shengxin tu wins 2024 provost pathbreaking discovery award.

Posted by duthip1 on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 in News .

PhD candidate Shengxin Tu has been named a recipient of Vanderbilt’s Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award , which “recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in publications, awards, patents, and other forms of national or international distinction” with $2,500 in supplemental funding. Tu is first author of a recent paper in the prestigious Statistics in Medicine journal, as well as second author of a retrospective cohort study discussed in last month’s  Journal of the International AIDS Society.  Tu currently serves as secretary of the Biostatistics Graduate Student Association and has completed internships at Genetech and Amazon; she is also presently a research assistant with CCASAnet , the Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology.

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From refugee to scholar: Mānoa student wins competitive fellowship

• April 19, 2024

A student who fled political persecution in Myanmar is on the brink of earning his BA from the Asian studies department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and has won a highly competitive fellowship to pursue a PhD . Kyaw Hsan Hlaing is one of 30 students , selected from nearly 2,400 applicants in the country, recently awarded the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which provides him $90,000 in funding for graduate school.

Kyaw Hsan, 27, reflected on the pivotal summer of 2020 in his homeland of Myanmar. It was then that he delved into journalism, spotlighting daunting crises of the raging COVID-19 pandemic and armed rebellion linked to displacement and genocidal acts by the Myanmar military. His reporting garnered international recognition and was published in TIME , Al Jazeera , Los Angeles Times and other notable media outlets.

“I myself, I believe I can give a voice for all these people. I am just trying to get all these voiceless and marginalized communities—to hear what they feel, what they suffer during the war and pandemic,” said Kyaw Hsan.

Homework by candlelight

His commitment to furthering his education traces back to a challenging childhood, growing under authoritarian rule in Myanmar. Violence was a harsh reality in his tiny village. Access to education was scarce, however, Kyaw Hsan’s parents believed in its importance. After finishing primary school, they sent him to a charity-run school. He often completed his studies by candlelight because their village has no electricity, until to this day.

“Although I wasn’t an outstanding student, passing the high school exam in 2013 was a huge accomplishment for both me and my family,” Kyaw Hsan said. “Because I became the first in my family to graduate from high school and the first to attend a university.”

In February 2021, the military coup in Myanmar shattered Kyaw Hsan’s dreams of furthering his education. Undeterred, he pivoted, channeling his energies into exposing human rights violations and amplifying the voices of democratic movements, even in the face of death threats that forced him into hiding.

Ultimately, Kyaw Hsan was forced to flee his homeland and was granted political asylum, resettling in the U.S in early 2022.

Hope in Hawaiʻi

Upon arrival in the United States, despite being determined to complete his college studies, Kyaw Hsan didn’t receive any offers from universities on the continent, he had applied to at least 10. He was eventually accepted into UH Mānoa as an Asian studies major in spring 2023. He credits the university for assisting him through the application process, which can be particularly challenging for refugees who can’t always provide specific documentation.

“I was so depressed because there seemed little hope that I could go back to school until getting to UH ,” Kyaw Hsan said. “A lot of people from UH really had to work hard to get me to UH …This means a lot. I’m really grateful.”

Following graduation, Kyaw Hsan will continue his academic journey at Cornell University, pursuing a PhD in political science and continuing his mission not only to give voice to the voiceless, but also to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming an academic.

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NSF Awards Fellowships to 60 Georgia Tech Graduate Students

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 60 Georgia Tech students with Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF). The fellowships, valued at $159,000 each, include funding for three years of graduate study and tuition.

This year’s winners represent areas of study ranging from aerospace engineering to ocean sciences. The purpose of the GRF initiative , the oldest of NSF’s programs, is to develop experts who will contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. Their awards total more than $9.5 million in funding, the most Georgia Tech has ever had in the program.

This year’s recipients are: 

Mihir Natansh Bafna  

Rebecca Kate Banner 

Bareesh Bhaduri 

Jessica A. Bonsu 

Noah S.S. Campbell 

Adrian Alfonso Candocia  

Cailey M Carpenter  

Katherine Elizabeth Cauffiel  

Michael John Cho  

Claudia Chu 

Eric Anthony Comstock 

Sarah Deiters 

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