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 University of Colorado Fellowships for Incoming Graduate Students
  • Center for Humanities and the Arts Fellowship

    The objective of these fellowships is to recruit outstanding new students for graduate study in thehumanities and the arts within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder.The fellowship will cover tuition, fees, and insurance plus a stipend equivalent to a 50% (.4 FTE) Graduate Part-Time Instructor appointment for the first year of graduate study. In addition, students receiving these fellowships will be named Center for Humanities and the Arts Graduate Scholars andArtists. The Graduate Scholars and Artists Program will include a convocation dinner hosted by CHA and invitations to all CHA events. Students receiving a fellowship will normally receive departmental support after the fellowship period, and those who pursue a doctoral degree at CU will be encouraged to competefor a Thomas Edwin Devaney Dissertation Fellowship to provide support during their final year.


  • Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship Program

    This fellowship provides a monetary award of $16,000 plus a full remission of tuition and fees (a total value of approximately $32,000). Incoming PhD students who are nominated by their department compete on a campus-wide basis for this prestigious award.


  • Thomas Edwin Devaney Fellowship

    The objective of these fellowships is to recruit outstanding new students for doctoral graduate study in the humanities and the arts within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder.The fellowship will cover tuition, fees, and insurance plus a stipend equivalent to a 50% (.4 FTE) Graduate Part-Time Instructor appointment for the first and second years of graduate study. In addition, new students receiving these fellowships will be named Center for Humanities and the Arts Graduate Scholars and Artists. The Graduate Scholars and Artists Program will include a convocation dinner hosted by CHA and invitations to all CHA events. Students receiving a fellowship will normally receive departmental support after the fellowship period, and those who pursue a doctoral degree at CU will be encouraged to compete for a Thomas Edwin Devaney Dissertation Fellowship to provide support during their final year.


  • Andrew W. Mellon

    The ACLS sponsors a fellowship program, the Andrew W. Mellon/ACLS Early Career Fellowships, which will provide support for young scholars to complete dissertations and, later, to advance their research after being awarded the Ph.D. Check the link below for deadlines and application information.
        Application Information


 University of Colorado Fellowships for Graduate Study
  • George F. Reynolds

    The George F. Reynolds fellowships are among the most prized awards offered by the Graduate School. George F. Reynolds, a teacher, scholar, humanist and philanthropist, who died in 1964, bequeathed funds for these yearly, self-perpetuating fellowships for outstanding graduate students in the humanities.The fellowship award is equal to the stipend for a Graduate Part Time Instructor and a tuition waiver for five hours. The fellowship period is one academic year.

    According to the rules of the fellowship, each department in the humanities may nominate one student for this award. All eligible students in our department will automatically be considered as possible nominees.The department's nominee will be contacted by the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in early March.



  • Thomas Edwin Devaney Dissertation Fellowship

    The objective of these fellowships is to assist students working in the humanities and the arts within the College of Arts and Sciences in the continuance and completion of their doctoral program. Devaney Dissertation Fellowships are equivalent to the stipend for a Graduate Part-time Instructor (50% time, .4FTE) and a tuition waiver for five hours. In addition, these students are named as Graduate StudentFellows in the Center for Humanities and the Arts; as such, they would be invited to be full participants inthe work of CHA. Departments will nominate 1-2 students to compete for this award. Selection generally takes place in April.


  • Graduate School Diversity Fellowship

    These are awarded to underrepresented first-year graduate students who demonstrate high academic promise. Their purpose is to increase the diversity of the graduate student body at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Only students with U.S. citizenship and permanent residents are eligible. The amount of each award is $2,500. Nominations are submitted by the departments in February.


  • Emerson/Lowe Dissertation Fellowship

    The College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, administers the Emerson and Lowe Dissertation Fellowships in the Humanities. The purpose of the fellowship program is to provide outstanding PhD candidates in the Humanities with financial support to assist in the process of completing their doctoral dissertations. Emerson and Lowe fellowships will provide full support for a full academic year. This award is the equivalent of a stipend, fees, insurance, and tuition remission (for either resident or non-resident) for the academic year. The number of awards will thus depend upon the residency status of the awardees.


  • Edward P. Nolan Fellowship

    The English Department is pleased to announce its annual competition for the Edward P. Nolan Fellowship. This fellowship was established in memory of the late Edward P. Nolan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado from 1966 to 1994.

    An award of up to $500 will be awarded, on a competitive basis, to a graduate student in English or in Comparative Literature and Humanities to support innovative and outstanding scholarship and teaching. For example, awards may be made to support travel to research institutions or to conferences to read papers.

    All applications from M.A. and Ph.D. students will be considered, but special consideration will be given to those doing research in the medieval or modern period, and to Ph.D. candidates, in particular those whose progress might be delayed because of financial and familial responsibilities. However, the excellence of a given research project is the main criterion for consideration.

    The application deadline for this fellowship is in the fall. Contact the English Department for details.




 University of Colorado Fellowships for Professional Development
  • Provost's Fellowships in the Library

    Each year five outstanding CU-Boulder graduate students are awarded with a fellowship of $2500 to support their work with a faculty mentor in the libraries and to provide them with the opportunity to expand their understanding and appreciation of library faculty careers in postsecondary institutions.
        Requirements and Application Information


  • Provost's Fellowships in Technology

    Each year five outstanding CU-Boulder graduate students receive a fellowship of $2500 to support the creation of a digital media-based project. The project must be deployable in the classroom and must advance the teaching of some aspect of the Fellows’ discipline in a unique and useful way. The Provost’s Fellow for Technology collaborates with an off-campus faculty mentor throughout all stages of the project.
        Requirements and Application Information



 External Fellowships for Graduate Study and Dissertation Research
  • Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program

    This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability—selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise—to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.
        Application Information


  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies

    Eighty-five fellowships (stipend of $14,750 plus tuition and mandated fees) available for one academic year to graduating college seniors and recent graduates preparing to begin full time studies towards a Ph.D. Online application available after completing pre-screeening request at http://www.woodrow.org/mellon. Early December deadline.


  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships

    The Center for Asian Studies (CAS) at the University of Colorado offers Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships to CU graduate students (in any department) who are studying a modern Asian language as part of their program of study. Deadline February 17, 2007.
        Application Information



 Dissertation Research
  • American Council of Learned Societies
        http://www.acls.org


  • American Institute of Indian Studies
    Awards fellowships to graduate students doing dissertation research in Indian aspects of academic disciplines.
        http://indiastudies.org


  • Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies (Freie Universtät, Berlin)
    Awards fellowships for doctoral dissertation research as well as for postdocs.
        http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram


  • Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France
    Private American foundation located on cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean. Provides lodging and airfare. Supports fellows conducting research and writing on projects in the Humanities and Social Sciences related to French and Francophone cultures.
        http://www.camargofoundation.org/


  • Chateaubriand Fellowships
    Fellowships in the Social Sciences and Humanities for doctoral candidates in US universities whose dissertations treat economic, social, or political aspects of contemporary France. Also eligible are literary subjects, historical studies and social sciences research.
        http://www.frenchculture.org/education


  • Ford Foundation Fellowships for Minorities
    Predoctoral, dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships.
        http://national-academies.org/fellowships