This award was created to address unforeseen hardships and financial constraints related to the completion of the doctoral degree. This award of up to $5,000 will be given annually to one recipient as stipend support in the final year of the student’s dissertation writing. A submitted UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship is required for this application. The award is open to all departments in the Division of Humanities. Preference will be given to students enrolled in the Departments of English, and the Departments of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and Comparative Literature whose dissertation topic includes the study of Italy. The…
These fellowships provide funds for travel and living expenses for UCLA graduate students in the Humanities to conduct research in foreign countries. Awards typically range from $2,000 to $6,000 each, depending on the extent of the research proposed. Awards can cover a period ranging from about three months to one year. These fellowships are meant for research only and are not to be used for activities such as enrolling in foreign institutions or paying tuition at UCLA. Application Materials: 1) A CV2) A two-page (maximum) description of the student’s proposed project including the following details: a budget breakdown that also…
These fellowships provide funds for travel and living expenses for UCLA graduate students in the Humanities to conduct research in foreign countries. Awards typically range from $2,000 to $8,000 each, depending on the extent of the research proposed. Awards can cover a period ranging from about three months to one year. These fellowships are meant for research only and are not to be used for activities such as enrolling in foreign institutions. Application Materials: 1) A CV2) A two-page (maximum) description of the student’s proposed project including the following details: a budget breakdown that also specifies the length of time…
These fellowships are intended to support graduate students from across the humanities to advance their research during one quarter of their pre-dissertation year. To clarify, this is the year prior to their DYF year. These funds may be used for stipend support for one academic quarter and/or may provide support for legitimate research and travel expenses. Fellowships will be for UP TO $8,000. In normal circumstances, the quarter in question will fall during the regular academic year, since the intent of this program is to free students from the demands of working as a TA during a portion of the…
The Carolyn Lew-Karon & Michael Karon Digital Research Graduate Fellowship supports Humanities graduate student research that utilizes digital tools with a preference for interdisciplinary research in the Digital Humanities. This fellowship provides $6,000 for a student to conduct research during summer 2024. Research may or may not be related to a student’s dissertation. Award period covers three months, July – September. Applications should include the following in one PDF document: The deadline to submit nominations is March 1st, 2024. Please submit your self-nomination to Barbara Van Nostrand at bvannost@humnet.ucla.edu.
The Division of Humanities invites nominations for the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies. This fellowship is intended to support one graduate student each year from across the humanities or social sciences who has an approved dissertation topic focusing on Persian/Iranian studies. The fellowship provides $25,000 in direct support and may not be used to cover fees or tuition. The fellowship recipient will be permitted to apply for a second year of support, but the second year is not guaranteed. The recipient will be required to provide a letter outlining progress during the fellowship year and any…
Humanistic inquiry at UCLA covers a breadth of fields, from philosophy to musicology to languages from every part of the world. Programs in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts teach students to articulate their thoughts with clarity and imagination, and to interpret the world of ideas with informed sensitivity in preparation for a culturally rich life as informed and humane citizens. The UCLA/Keck Humanistic Inquiry Graduate Research Awards Program aims to offer summer support for individual or collaborative graduate student research and creative activity. This innovative new program will select a cohort of Keck Graduate Fellows on the cutting…
