Modern Jewish: Funding
The department is happy to be able to award tuition waivers on the basis of academic merit to many entering Ph.D. students in their first year. Tuition support is typically 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 Jewish 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 Collegiate-Divisional Teaching and Research Fellowship, and two fellowships to support the final year: the William Rainey Harper and the Mellon Fellowships. 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.
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. Among those of special interest to students of Jewish history are those offered by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.