Overview
The Department of History strives to ascertain that all graduate students who need financial support can find it. For more information on funding options that are available through the History Department, including Graduate Teaching Assistantships, click here.
In addition, prospective and current students may apply for a variety of grants and fellowships. The list that follows is not exhaustive; some financial aid programs may cease to exist, while others are created. For the most up-to-date information, contact the History Department Graduate administrator at elgarber@ku.edu (785) 864-9438.
For information on other forms of financial assistance at the University of Kansas, please write directly to: The Director, Office of Student Financial Aid, 26 Strong Hall, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045. Telephone: (785) 864-4700.
Eligibility Criteria by the Graduate School Standing Committee of Fellowships, Scholarships and Student Affairs
- Students must be pursuing the Ph.D. or a similar doctoral degree that requires a dissertation.
- The deadline for receipt of applications will be in late March for travel during the 12-month period July 1-June 30. (Check with the Graduate School for current deadline.)
- Students need not have passed the comprehensive exam to apply for funds, but will not be allowed to expend funds until the comprehensive exam is passed. If the comprehensive exam is not passed in time for the travel to take place within the fiscal year, then the award will not be made.
- A student may receive no more than one award from the fund during his or her graduate school career.
- Students must be certified as at least half-time both when they apply and when they expend the award. (generally for this purpose 1/2 time for the regular semester equals 6 hours or 3 hours + 1/4 time TA/RA, 3 hours for the summer session.)
- No request may exceed a limit set by the Committee. Legitimate travel expenses are all those recognized by the State of Kansas, but the Committee may elect to provide only partial support to individuals if it finds it necessary to so do.
- Travel must be directly linked to the generation of materials for the dissertation (for example, studying relevant manuscripts in their original, using unique apparati, working with experimental subjects). Travel for the purposes of general student development (such as acquisition of new research skills) is not appropriate from this source.
- Priority will be given to students who have not received fellowship support from the Graduate School during their graduate school careers.
- Applications from individuals who have reasonable access to other funds for travel purposes are discouraged.
- Students wishing to make application to this program should obtain a cover sheet from the Graduate School, 222 Strong Hall. The application should make plain the relevance of the travel to the dissertation topic and indicate how the travel will enhance the dissertation. The student's application materials should be submitted to the department chair.
- The application materials should include the following: Cover page available from the Graduate School; No more than two pages of explanation; CV or Resume; Transcript (official copy not required); Letter of recommendation from the department chair or dissertation advisor.
- Each department chair may submit one application per year. The application materials must be received in the Graduate School, 222 Strong Hall, by the deadline.
- The applications will be reviewed by a subcommittee of the Standing Committee of Fellowships, Scholarships and Student Affairs and decisions will be announced in early May.
- All travel awards through this fund are subject to the State of Kansas travel regulations.
For incoming Graduate Students:
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship
Program Deadline: April 30, 2004. Website: http://jackkentcooke.org/jkcf_web/content.aspx?page=Grad. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program will award approximately 35 scholarships to college seniors or recent graduates to attend graduate programs in fall 2004. The scholarship awards will provide funding for tuition, room and board, books, and other required fees for the length of the graduate degree program, up to six years. The amount and duration of awards will vary by student, based on the cost of attendance and length of the program as well as other scholarships or grants received. The maximum award per student is $50,000 per year. Candidates for this scholarship must be nominated by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Faculty Representative at their undergraduate institution. A list of faculty representatives may be found at the foundation's website. KU's faculty representative is Dean Diana Carlin. Candidates may not apply directly to the Foundation for this program. Applications must arrive at the Foundation no later than the April 30, 2004, deadline.
- Abel-Hodder Fellowship
These four fellowships are filled by competition among students newly entering the graduate program. The award provides a stipend each year. Duties consist of 20 hours per week instructional support to large enrollment courses. The appointments are renewable for up to four years, dependent on satisfactory progress towards a degree and satisfactory performance of teaching duties.
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
These fellowships, funded by grants from the US Department of Education, are available to graduate students who are studying certain East European, East Asian, and African languages. In some cases, applicants must already have achieved an intermediate level of competency in order to be eligble. The fellowships pay tuition and fees, and provide a stipend. FLAS grants are available both for the academic year and for the summer. The appropriate KU Area Studies Centers administer FLAS fellowships. For more information, contact:
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Center for East Asian Studies
Center for African Studies
- Honors Fellowship
This fellowship is used primarily to recruit outstanding students for the graduate program. The award provides a stipend plus payment of tuition and fees. Awards to students in the doctoral program will be renewed for two additional years upon the favorable recommendation of the department. A student nominated for this fellowship must submit GRE test scores. Transcripts of all college or university work are also required. In addition, a brief statement from the nominee concerning his/her plans for graduate study at KU must be included with the nomination.
- Madison A. Lila Self Graduate Fellowship
This is a four-year fellowship used to recruit outstanding students to begin graduate work at KU. The award provides a stipend plus payment of tuition and fees. In one of the four years, the department provides a half-time teaching assistantship at its normal rate for such appoints and the Self program supplements the stipend. The fellowship program also pays tuition and fees in that year. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. GRE test scores, transcripts for all college or university work, and a personal essay addressing the student's desire to pursue a doctoral degree in his/her discipline and the student's long-term goals and ambitions must be submitted with the nomination.
- Post-Baccalaureate Fellowships
These are fellowships of a small monetary amount to assist minority students and women in areas in which they are underrepresented. Nominees must be U.S. citizens.
- Graduate Minority Opportunity Fund Fellowships:
These are four-year awards (excluding summers) used to recruit outstanding minority students for full-time graduate work toward a doctoral degree. Nominees must be U.S. citizens. The award provides a stipend plus payment of tuition and fees.
- College Minority GTA Program
These are half-time GTA positions for new minority graduate students. Nominees must be U.S. citizens. The award provides a stipend in year one and three of the graduate program; a research or teaching assistantship is offered in year two and in any other year in which the student is enrolled full time as a degree-seeking student in good standing. The student will receive a 100 percent waiver of tuition for those semesters that he/she holds a MGTA award.
- State of Kansas Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowships
Several fellowships are available for new and continuing minority graduate students for master's or doctoral study. These are four-year awards and carry a stipend of $8,000 for master's study and $10,000 for doctoral study ($8,000 from the Legislature plus $2,000 from other sources). An eligible applicant must be (a) a U.S. citizen, (b) a member of an ethnic minority group (as defined by the law), and (c) admitted to a graduate degree program at the University of Kansas. Each recipient of these fellowships must attend the University of Kansas as a full-time graduate student. Additionally, the recipients must agree to enter into the employ of an accredited and educational institution in Kansas upon graduation, and remain in such employment for at least the number of years for which fellowship support was provided.
For Current Graduate Students
- Dissertation Fellowship
This one-year award includes a stipend and payment of tuition and fees. Fellowship nominees must submit a well-developed dissertation proposal with the nomination. Nominees will be expected to have satisfactorily completed all requirements for candidacy, including the comprehensive examinations by the start of the fall semester.
- Rebecca Robinson Research Travel Award
This award supports two graduate students who need to travel to research collections, particularly for the development of dissertation topics. One award is given for domestic travel, and one for foreign travel.
- Lila Atkinson Creighton Scholarship
This scholarship comes from an endowed fund. It supports two students each year, usually one undergraduate and one graduate, on the basis of both excellence and need.
- Saricks Family Scholarship
This scholarship is an endowed fund providing a graduate fellowship.
- Donald R. McCoy Dissertation Research Award
This award goes to a student who has completed the comprehensive examinations for the Ph.D.
- Robert and Andrea Oppenheimer Family Award
This award goes to two graduate students, one in Latin American History, and one in Latin American Studies.
- Graduate Teaching Assistantship
You may become a Teaching Assistant for a larger course taught by a professor, or an Assistant Instructor in charge of your own lecture course. See the GTA webpage. See also the teaching opportunities available in the Program in Humanities and Western Civilization.
- Summer Fellowship
This fellowship is generally restricted to students who have completed at least one year of graduate study at KU and who plan to enroll full time (6 hours) for the summer session. The award includes a stipend plus payment of tuition and fees. Factors considered favorably in awarding the fellowship include service as a teaching assistant, superior academic performance, good departmental evaluation, and a clearly stated proposal from the nominee.
- The Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Awards
The Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation has invited the University to screen nominations for the Jerry Smith Scholarship for International Studies and the Eddie Jacobsen Memorial Foundation Scholarship, which the Foundation will award in May. Applicants must be K.U. undergraduate or graduate students pursuing courses of study in the general areas of international relations and diplomacy. The Foundation places special emphasis on conflict resolution. Nominees, who may be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals, must demonstrate potential for a career in or contribution to international service. Foreign grantees are expected to return to their home countries at the conclusion of their formal studies at KU. They should be available for at least one Good Neighbor Award Foundation function during their studies here. American grantees must be available to participate in at least one Good Neighbor Award Foundation function after they conclude their study abroad program.
*Jerry Smith Scholarship for International Studies and
*Eddie Jacobsen Memorial Foundation Scholarship
- Dwight Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowship
The Eisenhower World Affairs Institute has invited the University of Kansas to screen nominations for the Dwight Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowships, which the Institute will award in late April. The awards assist young scholars of exceptional leadership promise to complete work for the doctoral degree in such areas as government, history, economics, business administration, and international affairs. Applicants should be at the point of preparing their dissertations. Research topics relating directly to President Eisenhower, the Eisenhower Administration, and issues of major concern to him will command special attention. The award carries a stipend of $7,500.
- Dissertation Research Travel Awards: The University of Kansas Graduate School has available a small sum of money to help defray the costs of a graduate student's out-of-state or international travel involved in the development of a dissertation. Award of the funds is competitive.
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