In addition to regular University fellowships, Chicago students can also receive summer research travel funds from the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS/Title VI) and Tinker Foundation Field Research Grants. Long-term research fellowships in Latin American history are available through Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, and the Social Science Research Council. In recent years, Chicago students have been very successful in obtaining these fellowships.
From 1995 through 2009, the Andrew Mellon Foundation provided fellowships for students in Chicago's Latin American History Program. This program of multi-year awards for dissertation research has now ended. Students and faculty from the Mellon programs at Chicago, Harvard, and Yale continue to meet to to present their work in progress. Faculty members serve as discussants, and distinguished scholars from Latin America offer guest lectures. These conferences have become a great success, providing invaluable opportunities to discuss new research, exchange ideas, and meet new colleagues.
Graduate students who have completed their coursework may serve as teaching assistants for undergraduate History, Latin American Studies, and Latin American Civilization courses, as well as in the Study Abroad Program in Oaxaca. More advanced students may apply to create and teach their own undergraduate courses in the History Department (under the Von Holst program or with a Mellon fellowship). Advanced graduate students are also elegible to be preceptors (undergraduate thesis advisors) in the History Department, the Latin American Studies Concentration, and the Committee on International Relations. Preceptorships are also available in the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) and the Master of Arts Program in Latin American Studies. History graduate students at the University of Chicago have also received temporary teaching appointments at various Chicago-area colleges and universities.
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