Modern Europe: Funding

The department is happy to be able to award tuition waivers on the basis of academic merit to the majority of entering Ph.D. students in their first year. Tuition support is available to all students after the end of the first year provided they have made satisfactory progress in their coursework and seminar paper research. University stipends are awarded to entering students on the basis of academic merit; those students who enter without stipends are eligible at the end of their first year to be considered for the Mellon Achievement and Phoenix Fellowships, as well as smaller University stipends.

While there are no fellowships set aside specifically for modern European history graduates, the department is able every year to nominate a number of advanced graduate students for various dissertation write-up fellowships administered through the Social Sciences division and the University. These include the William Rainey Harper Fellowship, the Mellon Dissertation Write-up Fellowship, and the Collegiate-Divisional Teaching Fellowship, all of which provide support for a final year of dissertation writing. Students in History are also eligible to be nominated by the department for Overseas Dissertation Research Fellowships, which provide support for dissertation research prior to writing-up. The department regularly awards funding in smaller amounts in the form of research travel fellowships and conference travel grants. Students who are eligible for the federal Work/Study program may also serve as research assistants for individual faculty members.

At the University of Chicago, there are also dissertation fellowships available through the Center for Gender Studies (for students of gender, gay and lesbian studies, feminism, and sexuality) and the Martin Marty Center at the Divinity School (for students of religion).

All students are strongly encouraged to seek outside support for their dissertation research and writing. The American Historical Association maintains a list of Grants, Fellowships and Prizes of Interest to Historians, which members of the AHA can access on-line and there is a print copy available in the department office. We also include here a list of grants won by students in Modern European History in recent years.

Other national fellowship competitions for which modern Europeanists are eligible include the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies and the fellowships offered through the Social Science Research Council. There are a number of programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education to which medievalists may apply for support, including the Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship Program (FLAS), the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program, the Fulbright Program of the Institute for International Education, and the Jacob K. Javitz Fellowship Program for students entering or in their first year of graduate research.

 Since 1999, students in Modern European History have received funding from the following sources: 

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