Fellowships
Fellowships
There are hundreds of grants and fellowships that support graduate study in art history, and while the department tries to notify students of all fellowship opportunities available to its students, there are some that require its direct involvement.
Such fellowships may require departmental nomination, a letter of recommendation from the Director of Graduate Studies or the Department Chair, or they may require supporting materials that come from the department rather than, or in addition to, those materials provided by the student applicant.
It is these fellowships in particular on which the following information focuses.
Listed below are brief summaries of these fellowships and important dates. If there are fellowships for which you are interested in applying, read the appropriate instructions and, when necessary, notify your adviser that you would like to be put up for nomination.
Make sure that s/he submits your name and any other required information to the Director of Graduate Studies by the posted deadline. If you are chosen to be the department's nominee for the fellowship, you will be contacted with further information about procedures for applying.
In many cases, you will need to submit your application to the department in advance of the fellowship agency's published deadline. This is necessary so that we allow time for supporting letters to be obtained, for multiple copies of the application to be made and collated, and for shipping or hand delivery.
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA)
CASVA offers 9 different fellowships for dissertation research. Many require the student to be a residential fellow at the Center in Washington, D.C. All awards offer about $20,000 per year, with an additional $4,000 housing subsidy available for residential fellows. The department can nominate only one student for each of the fellowships they offer.
- Submit names and sample statements to DGS by October 4.
- CASVA applications due in the Art History office by November 1.
- CASVA application is due to the National Gallery of Art by November 15.
Deadalus Foundation
The Deadalus Foundation was established by artist Robert Motherwell and provides doctoral dissertation fellowships to support students working on topics related to modern art and modernism. The department may nominate one student for the fellowship award of $20,000.
- Submit names and sample applications to the DGS by October 15.
- DGS enters candidate's name into online nomination form shortly thereafter and the candidate is notified of procedures for submitting an application.
- Applications are due December 1.
Norman Johnson DeWitt Fellowship
The Norman Johnson DeWitt Fellowship is a privately funded fellowship offered through the Graduate School. The fellowship supports advanced graduate students in the humanities with a stipend of $22,000 plus tuition. One award is given annually and departments are allowed to nominate one student.
- Submit names and sample statements to DGS by October 13.
- DeWitt applications are due in the Art History office by November 17.
- Applications due to the Graduate School by 12:00 Noon on December 1.
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF)
The purpose of the DDF program is to give outstanding final-year PhD candidates who are making timely progress toward the degree—typically those who will be entering their final year of graduate study—an opportunity to complete the dissertation within the upcoming academic year by devoting full-time effort to the research and writing of the dissertation. For the academic year 2009-2010, students will receive a stipend of $22,500 plus full tuition for thesis credits. The award also covers health insurance. The Graduate School will only consider nominations for students who entered with a BA in Fall 2006 or after; with an MA in Fall of 2008 or after.
- Submit names and sample proposals to DGS by January 31.
- DDF applications due to Art History office by February 25.
- DDF applications are due to the Graduate School by March 11.
Foreign Language and Areas Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
The Institute for Global studies offers FLAS fellowships to Graduate students for the study of less commonly taught foreign languages (including Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese).
These fellowships can be used for the summer or for the academic year. Only US citizens are eligible. The department may nominate up to 4 students.
- Submit names and other information to DGS by December 17.
- FLAS applications due in the Art History office by January 24.
- FLAS applications are due to IGS by February 7.
Foreign Language Enhancement Program (FLEP) Scholarships
The College of Liberal Arts (CLA) makes available 5 FLEP scholarships each summer for graduate students whose academic home is in CLA for summer intensive language study of a less-commonly-taught language (LCTL) at partnering CIC institutions. Award includes a $2,500 stipend plus tuition remission of 1 credit in the CIC Traveling Scholar Program. These scholarships do not require departmental nomination.
- FLEP applications are due to IGS on February 7.
Graduate Research Parternship Program (GRPP)
The GRPP award, which is provided by funds from the College of Liberal Arts, supports collaborative summer research conducted by a graduate student partnered with a faculty member. It offers a $4,000 stipend. The applications are reviewed by the Graduate Studies Committee in the art history department.
- GRPP applications are due to the DGS by March 28.
Kress Foundation Fellowship
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation provides two fellowships of interest to graduate students in art history, the Fellowship in Art History at Foreign Institutions, and the Kress Travel Fellowship. The department can submit one nominee for each.
The Fellowship in Art History at Foreign Institutions provides $22,500-per-year for a two-year research appointment in association with one of the following foreign institutes: Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut; Jerusalem, Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology; W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research; Leiden, Kunsthistorisch Instituut der Rijksuniversiteit; London, Courtauld Institute of Art; Warburg Institute; Munich, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte; Nicosia Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute; Paris, American University in Paris; Institut national d'histoire de l'art; Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana; Zurich, Swiss Institute for Art Research. Fellowships are restricted to pre-doctoral candidates in the history of art and related disciplines (such as archaeology, architecture, or classics).
Nominees must be U.S. citizens or individuals matriculated at an American university. Dissertation research must focus on European art history from antiquity to the early 19th century.
The deadline for applications is November 30th. Faculty should forward names of potential nominees to the DGS by October 16th. Applications are due in the art history office on November 13. The Travel Fellowship supports travel required for the completion of dissertation research on European art. Stipends generally range from $3500 to $10,000. Dissertation research must focus on European art before 1900. Awards are restricted to pre-doctoral candidates in the history of art. Nominees must be U.S. citizens or individuals matriculated at an American university.
- Submit names and sample statements to DGS by October 15.
- Applications are due in the Art History office by November 16.
- Applications are due at the Kress Foundation by November 30.
Harold Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study
The purpose of the Leonard Fellowship in Film Study is to provide stipend support for an academic year of well-defined research or study in which film history, criticism, theory, or aesthetics is the major focus of the research. Students may propose a program of research, such as that which would lead to a dissertation, or course of study in which the major focus will be film. The film study program does not support film production projects. This fellowship does not require nomination from the applicant's department.
- Applications are due in the Graduate School by 12:00 Noon, December 1st.
William Stout/Thomas Wallace Fellowship
The William Stout/Thomas Wallace fellowship is for graduate students in the humanities or social sciences who are in the intermediate years of the PhD (i.e., normally students currently in their second or third year of graduate study).The fellowship offers a $22,000 stipend, plus tuition. Students must be nominated by the DGS.
- Submit names and sample statements to DGS by October 13.
- Applications are due in the Art History office by November 17.
- Applications are due at the Graduate School by 12:00 Noon, December 1.
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