Race and Ethnicity: Funding
In addition to competitive fellowships awarded to graduate students upon admission, the university offers grants and fellowships for graduate research and writing. Within the History Department, students may apply for travel grants for research and dissertation write-up fellowships. History graduate students have competed successfully for dissertation write-up fellowships awarded through the Social Science Division, including the Andrew Mellon, Harper, and Barnard fellowships; the Bloom write-up fellowship for dissertations addressing American education; and the Markovitz write-up fellowship for dissertations concerning economics and social life.
In the spring of 2003 the Social Science Division and history department announced a campaign to fund the John Hope Franklin dissertation fellowship to support graduate students working on African American history, southern history, and race and racism generally defined.
Depending on their field of study, students may also qualify for funding for research and writing from the Center for East Asian Studies and Center for Latin American Studies. Students whose course of study and research requires proficiency in a foreign language are encouraged to apply for grants from the National Research foundation FALS (Title IV).
History graduate students have also competed successfully for research grants from the Human Rights Program and for travel grants and dissertation write-up fellowships from the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.