Award and Grant Application Links

This page contains a list of possible funding sources for graduate students. Some of these are university-wide competitions (such as the dissertation fellowship and the Dana-Allen fellowship), and students need departmental nomination. For these fellowships, our department sends out a call for interested students each year.

ACLS Fellowships

American Association of University Women

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

CGES Student Travel Grant Competition

Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship

Chateaubriand Fellowship

Childcare Tuition Assistance Program

Dana-Allen (IRH) Fellowship (University-Wide)

Dissertation Fellowship (University-Wide)

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (through the Mellon Foundation)

FLAS Fellowships

Ford Foundation Fellowships

Fulbright Program

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad

Graduate Student International Field Research Awards

Grants Information Collection

Humanities Exposed (HEX)

Idealist.org Fellowship Listings

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship

Marie Christine Kohler (Knapp House) Fellowship

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grants

National Humanities Center Fellowships

Returning Adult Scholarships and Grants (through the Division of Continuing Studies)

Single Parent Scholarships (through the Division of Continuing Studies)

Social Science Research Council

Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowships and Research Grants

U.S. Department of Education Grants

UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity (IRE) Graduate Scholars Associates Program

Vilas Travel Grant