Russia: Funding
Many students enter the graduate program with 4- or 5-year fellowship aid (tuition waivers and stipends) awarded by the Department on a competitive basis as part of the Admissions process. Some students also obtain outside funding for graduate study, for example Mellon or Javits Fellowships, or are admitted with FLAS Fellowships from the University of Chicago's Center for Eurasian, East European, and Russian studies.
At the end of the 1st year, all students approved for continuation in the program (the great majority) qualify for tuition exemption. At this time, students who entered without stipends are also eligible to be considered for the competitive Mellon Achievement and Phoenix Fellowships, as well as smaller University stipends. For students without stipend support in the 2nd-4th years, full-year FLAS Fellowships are also available.
At the end of the 2nd year, all students in Russian history are expected to go for a month to Russia to investigate archives and library holdings relevant to their proposed dissertation topic. These trips are funded by University of Chicago travel grants or from Fitzpatrick's Mellon award.
After taking their Orals (end of 2nd year/Fall quarter of 3rd year) and presenting their Dissertation proposal at a formal hearing (usually some time in the 3rd year), graduate students in Russian history typically go off for a research year in Russia (4th or 5th year in the program). Limited funding for such travel is available from the Department and Fitzpatrick's Mellon grant, but the great majority of our students obtain fellowships from one of the national competitions for this purpose held by IREX, Fulbright-Hays, ACTR, etc.
FLAS summer grants for language acquisition are available each year for students at different levels of the program.
When
students return from their year in Russia, some of them still have a
year of Fellowship support to draw on. For other students, dissertation
write-up fellowships are awarded by national competition by SSRC, the
Canadian SSHRC and other institutions. Mellon and Harper write-up Fellowships
are also available through Divisional and Departmental competition at
the University of Chicago.
Sometimes advanced students need to return for a short supplementary research trip after their main research year in Russia. Such trips are usually funded from Departmental research travel grants but may also be supported from other University of Chicago sources.
University of Chicago Travel Grants to Russia
(Awarded for one month's summer research trips to Russia, usually to students finishing their second year for preliminary investigation of archives).
2001
Alan Barenberg
Rachel Green.
Brian LaPierre
Mie Nakachi.
2002
Ed Cohn.
2003
Ben Zajicek
Stacey Manley
Christian Raffensperger
Kyung Deok (Ken) Roh
Michael Westren
Oscar Sanchez.
University of Chicago Dissertation Research Grant
2002
Mie Nakachi
Alan Barenberg.
University of Chicago Kunstadter Research Travel Grant
2002
Mie Nakachi
Alan Barenberg.
University of Chicago Dootlittle Research Fellowship
2002
Alan Barenberg.
Fitzpatrick Dissertation Fellowship
2001-2002
P. Charles Hachten.
University of Chicago Collegiate Teaching Fellowship
2000-2001
Kiril Tomoff.
SSRC Research or Write up Fellowships
2001-2002
Dissertation Fellowship -Steven Harris
2002 - 2003
International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship - Charles Hachten.
Mellon and Harper Fellowships
2003-2004
Mellon Dissertation-Year Fellowship - Mark Edele.
European Union Fellowship
2001-2003Oscar Sanchez.
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship
2000-2001
Steven Harris
2002-2003
Brian LaPierre.
American Council for Teachers of Russian Title XIII Dissertation Research Fellowship
2003-2004
Rachel Green.
DAAD
2001-02
(to Russia) - Mark Edele
Toyota Centennial Teaching Fellowship
2001-2002
Mie Nakachi
IREX Regional Scholar Exchange Program Fellowship
2002-2003
Brian LaPierre.
Matsushita Overseas Research Grant
2002-2003
Mie Nakachi.
Council on Library & Info Resources (CLIR) Mellon Dissertation Research Fellowship
2003-2004
Alan Barenberg
Title VI (FLAS) Year-long awards
2001-2002
Heidy Berthoud
Brian LaPierre
Stacey Manley
2002-2003,
Heidy Berthoud
Rachel Green
Andrew Janco
Stacey Manley
Christian Raffensperger
2003-2004
Heidy Berthoud
Stacey Manley
Christian Raffensperger
Title VI (FLAS) summer
2001
Title VI (Russian) at Indiana University - Edward Cohn
2002
Title VI (Russian) at Indiana University - Edward Cohn
Title VI (Russian) at Middlebury College - Stacey Manley
2003
Justine Buck
Kevah Hemmat
Adrian Guiu
Anthony Elia
Thomas Weir
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship for Original Sources in the Humanities
Alan Barenberg