Graduate Assistantships and Fellowships
The Department of American Studies has a richly diverse faculty and student body committed to rigorous standards of research. We actively seek to sustain and enhance our diversity and to support the research of our graduate students. Some of the fellowship programs that help us achieve these goals are described below.
The Department awards a small number of Teaching Assistantships each year. For an overview of these assistantships and other fellowships offered within the College of Arts and Sciences at UB, please visit: http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/students/graduate/grad-support.php
The Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship Program is designed to assist UB in the recruitment, enrollment, and retention of students who are U.S. citizens or Permanent Residents in doctoral and master's level programs who can demonstrate that they would contribute to the diversity of the student body, especially those who can demonstrate that they have overcome a disadvantage or other impediment to success in higher education. Such categorical circumstances may include academic, vocational, social, physical or economic impediments or disadvantaged status that students, as evidenced by their performance as undergraduates, have been able to overcome, or other characteristics that constitute categorical under-representation in their particular graduate program such as gender or racial/ethnic status. For more information, please visit: UB: The Graduate School: Scholarships & Fellowships
For information on nationally competitive Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships, please visit: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/
Over the years many international graduate students in the Department of American Studies have been funded by Fulbright Fellowships. The Fulbright Foreign Student Program brings international scholars to the United States for M.A. or Ph.D. study at American universities. For more information, please visit: http://www.foreign.fulbrightonline.org
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program provides support for young scholars to complete their dissertation and, later, to advance their research after being awarded the PhD. This program awards fellowships in two categories: Dissertation Completion Fellowships and Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships. For more information, please visit: http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=510&linkidentifier=id&itemid=510;
For information on other CLIR Awards and Fellowships, please visit: http://www.clir.org/fellowships
The Newberry Library in Chicago offers two short-term residential fellowships
for scholars of American Indian heritage:
THE POWER-TANNER FELLOWSHIP. The Power-Tanner Fellowship is for
Ph.D. candidates or postdoctoral scholars working in any field of the
humanities and supports two months of research in the collections of
the Newberry Library. For application details, please check
http://www.newberry.org/mcnickle/powertanner.html
THE ALLEN FELLOWSHIP. The Allen Fellowship provides from one to
three months of research support for a woman of American Indian
heritage working in any graduate or pre-professional field
appropriate to the Newberry's collections. For application details,
please check http://www.newberry.org/mcnickle/frances.html
The American Association of University Woman (AAUW) is one of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women. The AAUW Educational Foundation supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented. The AAUW's American Fellowships support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations and scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave or for preparing completed research for publication. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. One-year postdoctoral research leave fellowships, dissertation fellowships, and summer/short-term research publication grants are offered. The AAUW's International Fellowships are awarded for full-time graduate or postgraduate study or research to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Supplemental grants support community-based projects in the fellow's home country. For information on all of the AAUW's fellowship programs, please visit: http://www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/index.cfm
Canadian Studies Grant Opportunities for Faculty and Students
The Canadian Government, through its Embassy and Consulates in the United States, supports research, conferences, teaching, and program activity related to Canada and/or Canada-U.S. relations. The grant program seeks to encourage comparative research and teaching, faculty exchanges, student mobility, and collaboration between American and Canadian researchers. The Canadian Government also seeks to build stronger ties between American and Canadian universities and colleges. More information on the grants can be found at: http://geo.international.gc.ca/can-am/washington/studies/grantguide-en.asp
The Wenner-Gren Foundation offers a variety of grants to support doctoral research in all branches of anthropology. For information, please visit: http://www.wennergren.org/programs/
UB's Graduate Student Association Research Fund
The Mark Diamond Research Fund (MDRF) gives grants to UB graduate students for research expenses related to their thesis or dissertation. Ph.D. students may apply for up to $2,000 and M.A. students for up to $1,000. Applicants should be in the latter stages of research. For more information, please visit: http://www.gsa.buffalo.edu/funding.html
Grants to Support Academic Conference Presentations
Department of American Studies Travel Grants
The Department of American Studies offers a small number of travel grants (up to $200) to support doctoral students' presentations at academic conferences. Students are advised to apply for funding to the Director of Graduate Studies as soon as they have a paper accepted at an academic conference. The application should include a copy of the conference acceptance letter and a projected travel budget (e.g., registration fee, airfare or mileage, and hotel). Grants will be awarded until the budget is exhausted each year.
Graduate Student Association Travel Grants
UB's GSA also offers a limited number of grants to assist UB graduate students in presenting and attending research work at conferences. Ph. D. students will receive $400 toward conferences and M.A. students will receive $250. As of February 2006, students who are attending a conference, but not presenting, are now eligible for $150. This amount will come out of the total $250/$400 each student is eligible for throughout their graduate career. For more information, please visit: http://www.gsa.buffalo.edu/funding.html