News
New Summer Fellowship Program to Begin this Year
December, 2006
HAA is pleased to announce a new summer fellowship program funded by the Graduate Dean for Arts & Sciences. Under the program, the department will award annually approximately six Dissertation Development Grants of up to $3,000 each. The grants will be reserved for doctoral students to use in the summer after their second or third year in residence, or, for those students who enter with an MA from another institution, after their first or second year in residence. They will be awarded competitively for the purposes of conducting research, traveling to collections, improving language skills, or engaging in any other professional enhancement necessary to the development of the dissertation topic and prospectus. Dissertation Development Grants recognize above all the importance of early field research and study in fostering outstanding dissertation work in our discipline.
This new program will complement the department’s preexisting Friends Travel Grant program, which is used primarily for travel expenses to conduct focused research trips abroad once the dissertation topic has become well advanced and typically after the student has passed the comprehensive exams. Friends Travel awards are also used secondarily to support students giving papers at professional conferences. This program typically expends about $10,000 annually.