Full time students admitted to graduate programs at Emory are offered either tuition and stipend awards by the university, or have individual fellowships from outside funding sources. The various kinds of funding opportunities are:

 
Emory Fellowships for Graduate Study

Each year the History Department admits a limited number of new students to the Ph.D program. Currently, all incoming students receive stipends of at least $16,000 per year for five years in addition to waivers of tuition. In addition, the Graduate School of Arts and Science supports outstanding applicants with three types of special fellowships.

Special Fellowships (the Woodruff, Graduate Diversity, and Arts and Sciences Fellowships listed below), which either supplement the base stipend provided by the Graduate School or provide full stipend support at a higher stipend level than the base stipends, are also offered on a competitive basis. Applicants do not apply directly for these fellowships. Faculty in departments or programs nominate accepted students for these fellowships based on their qualifications and nominees are reviewed by faculty committees. Awards are announced to students at the time they are accepted for admission. All fellowship awards are made on the basis of merit and are renewed annually contingent upon satisfactory academic performance.

George W. Woodruff Fellowship: The George W. Woodruff Fellowship is awarded to exceptional students who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and who plan to pursue doctoral programs of study. Students who previously applied to any doctoral program at Emory are ineligible. The fellowship covers all tuition and fees for five years and provides a supplement to the base stipend to a level of $20,000 or higher depending on the amount of the base stipend offered in the student's department. Fifteen fellowships are available each year. Awards are renewed annually contingent upon satisfactory academic performance. Woodruff Fellowships are awarded solely on the basis of merit.

The Emory Graduate Diversity Fellowship promotes the diversity of the graduate student body. As a community we recognize that students from groups not traditionally present in the university bring new perspectives that enrich the fields of graduate study and enhance the educational experience of all students. Many individuals have the potential to expand the methodologies, the topics of research, and applications of various disciplines because of their unique background. Eligible students may belong to a specific ethnic group, race, culture, socioeconomic group, or gender traditionally underrepresented in their proposed field of study, or possess other qualities that will enhance the diverse community of scholars in the Graduate School. The Graduate School considers each applicant’s promise of making a notable contribution to their incoming class by exhibiting particular strengths or characteristics, including a unique intellectual achievement, employment experience, nonacademic performance, or personal background. The DF covers all tuition and fees for five years and provides a minimum annual stipend of $19,500. Only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible for the Emory Graduate Diversity Fellowship.

The Arts & Sciences Fellowship is awarded to outstanding first year doctoral students in humanities or social sciences programs. The Arts & Sciences Fellowship covers tuition up to five years and provides a $4,000 supplement to the base stipend. Awards are given solely on the basis of merit and are renewed annually contingent upon satisfactory academic performance.

Southern Studies Dissertation Fellowships: Funded by the A. Worley Brown Endowment for Southern Studies, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers up to five dissertation fellowships each year to students writing dissertations related to southern studies. Dissertation fellows are selected from relevant disciplines within Emory University (English, Political Science, American Studies of the Institute of the Liberal Arts, and History). Further Information [pdf file].
     This $15,000 fellowship replaces the one formerly supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Fellows are required to work full time on their dissertations. In the spring semester, they will meet weekly as a group to critique their work. Each application will be evaluated on the basis of the significance of the project; the quality of the proposal; the promise of the applicant; and the likelihood that the project will be completed in the fellowship year. Preference will be given to students entering their fifth or sixth year of graduate study.
     Application: Notice of application requirements and deadline is distributed to departments by the Graduate School. Normally the application process is for submission of eight collated copies of application materials no later than 15 February, to:
Dean Lisa Tedesco
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
202 Administration Building
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322

1. the application cover sheet
2. a curriculum vita of no more than one page
3. a 100-word abstract of the proposal
4. a project description
5. a timetable for completion of the project; and
6. a letter of nomination/recommendation from the dissertation advisor

 
Awards and Prizes

The Department has several named awards that support graduate students in their dissertation research and travel.

The JOSEPH J. MATHEWS PRIZE is a substantial annual award to a graduate student in any field engaged in dissertation research.

The BLAIR ROGERS MAJOR AND JAMES RUSSELL MAJOR DISSERTATION AWARD offers a substantial scholarship to the most promising student writing a dissertation on European history, including the British isles, in the period c. 1350-1715. Click here for further details.

The GEORGE P. CUTTINO FELLOWSHIPS, while intended primarily for undergraduate awards, occasionally provide funds for graduate student research in medieval history.

Each fall the Department selects a recipient for the FRANCIS S. BENJAMIN PRIZE, awarded for the best paper written in a graduate seminar course the previous year, and also selects a recipient for the ROSS H. AND MAY B. McLEAN PRIZE, awarded to the first-year student in history who achieved the most distinguished record for the previous year.

 
Research Funding

In recent years the Department has been allocated funds by the Graduate School to support graduate student travel to scholarly conferences to present papers. These funds have enabled us to pay part or all of the expenses of about fifteen students each year.

Additional funds have been allocated for summer research travel to as many as twenty students for a variety of research projects and language training. In addition, the Graduate School offers funds on a competitive basis for pre-dissertation and dissertation research outside the United States through the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences University Fund for Internationalization.