Fellowships and Financial Aid

All History Ph.D. students are recipients of five years of funding from a combination of sources. The Graduate School, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Provost's Office, and several special fellowship funds enable the History Department to offer up to $26,000/year. Over the course of graduate study, some fellowships will be related to teaching, and others awarded as research fellowships.

Students must be enrolled full-time and are expected to meet departmental and Graduate School benchmarks in order to maintain their fellowship status.

Additional funds for research travel, summer archival research, and conference participation (including international conferences) is also available on a competitive basis.

Students in their fifth and sixth years are eligible to apply for additional funding from the department. Funds from the Sage Endowment, established by the late Professor Leland Sage, and from the Helgueara Endowment, established in honor of emeritus Professor Leon Helguera by Vanderbilt alumnus Patrick McMullan, fund three students in their final year of study. Other students have won dissertation fellowships from outside sources. For more detailed information about financial aid, or any other aspect of our graduate program, please write the Director of Graduate Studies.

In addition to the usual stipendiary academic-year fellowships the department offers graduate students at all levels opportunities to compete for three research grants:

• The William Campbell Binkley Graduate Education Fund provides small grants-in-aid of research travel related either to the doctoral dissertation or to seminar papers and projected articles unrelated to the dissertation.
• The Herbert and Blanche Henry Weaver Research Fellowships provide summer research stipends and may be used in conjunction with Binkley grants to support dissertation or other research.
• History Department Conference Travel Grants assist with the expenses of students presenting their research at scholarly conferences.

There is no limit to the number of times that a student may apply for any of these grants, and students in good standing at any stage of the graduate program are eligible.

Finally, several of Vanderbilt's interdisciplinary programs have fellowship competitions. History students have traditionally fared very well in these, and have secured prestigious awards across the University and outside it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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