Resources for Grad Students to find Fellowship Support
This is intended as a springboard for you to do your own research. I'm
not making any claims about the merits of these links, or any guarantee
that clicking them will get you a fellowship! E-mail me with suggestions,
links you have found: louisam@u.washington.edu
If you're starting grad school, start here.
Paying for Graduate School (Gradview.com portal web site)
http://www.gradview.com/articles/financing.html
For MA students interested in pursuing a career in the US foreign service,
there is the Pickering Fellowship, administered by Woodrow Wilson Fund. It
is intended for recent grads or seniors who want to pursue an MA relevant
to a career in foreign service (including foreign languages):
http://www.woodrow.org/public-policy/
As yet there is no departmental fellowship for French and Italian grads.
However there is a university-wide competition for grads writing dissertations,
the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship. You might want to start here if
you are writing. The Fulbright, Fritz, Javitz, Western European Travel Grant,
are all study-abroad grants that you should look into if you want to spend
a year abroad.
Start at the U's own portal:
UW links to grad fellowship and financial info, including Humanities Dissertation
Fellowship, Fritz, Fulbright, Javitz, Western Europe Travel Grant, the
Pembroke fellowship (for study in Cambridge, England).
http://www.grad.washington.edu/fellow/FundingInfo.htm
and the calendar:
http://www.grad.washington.edu/fellow/FellCalendar.htm
many application forms can be found at
http://www.grad.washington.edu/forms/forms.htm
A UW teaching fellowship
The announcement of the annual competition for Huckabay Teaching Fellowships
is now available on the Graduate School's web site at
http://www.grad.washington.edu/pff/huckabay.htm
Please note that there will be an information session for student/faculty
applicants on Tuesday, March 5, 2002, from 3:00-5:00 p.m., in HUB 309.
Former
fellows and faculty who have served as mentors and on the selection
committee will be on hand to answer questions about the award.
The Bourse Chateaubriand is a prestigious fellowships for one year study
in France. For US citizens.
http://www.frenchculture.org/education/support/chateaubriand/
Rotary awards - click on "Ambassadorial Scholarships". Grant to study
abroad. Apply through the local Rotary in your college town or your home
town.
http://www.rotary.org/foundation/programs.html
Useful overview of the Rotary at
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/icenter/orc/scholarships/rotary.html
Mellon Fellowships: usually two years of support for entering grads. Prestigious.
Mellon fellowships for humanities
http://www.woodrow.org/mellon/
At some point you might want to think about taking out loans. Federal Subsidised
are a good deal since interest does not accumulate until you finish. Apply
with a FAFSA form, through the U's financial aid office.
http://www.washington.edu/students/osfa/
. See also:
The Department of Education - Financial Aid Student Guide
http://www.ed.gov/topics/topics.jsp?&top=Financial+Aid
http://www.ed.gov/prog_info/SFA/StudentGuide/
Financial Aid Information Page (SmartStudent Guide
portal web site) . Some info on scholarships too, and good info on SCAMS!
(Beware of these, if it sounds too good to be true, it is).
http://www.finaid.org
Here are some other portals I have found with a mass of assembled information
on lots of scholarships. Worth browsing on a fast modem or ethernet connection
if you have one. The links should work directly - if not, cut and paste.
Note that a site put up by a particular university does NOT mean you have
to be a student at that university.
For minorities and women:
Fellowships & Grants of Special Interest to Minorities (Brown University)
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Dean_of_the_College/Fellowships/minorfels.html
National Minority Fellowships (Texas A&M)
http://honors.tamu.edu/honors/scholarships/natminor.htm
National Women’s Studies Association Awards & Scholarships (portal
web site)
http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship.htm
The American Educational Research Association Minority (Aera.net portal
web site)
http://www.aera.net/anews/bbarch/announce/af99-003.htm
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
http://www.pdsoros.org/
General databases
College Scholarships, Graduate Fellowships & Postdoc (portal web site)
http://scholarships.kachinatech.com/scholarships/scholar3.html
Scholarships and Financial Aid for Minorities and Women (Fundsnet portal
web site)
http://www.fundsnetservices.com/finaid06.htm
Fellowships Database - UCLA
http://jasmine.gdnet.ucla.edu/gdnet/grapes/
Financial Aid - Purdue University
http://www.purdue.edu/DFA/
Free Online Scholarship Service (Sallimae)
http://www.salliemae.com/planning/scholarships.html
Free Web Scholarship Search (FastWeb portal web site)
http://www3.fastweb.com/index.ptml
Graduate Fellowships - NCSU
http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/grad_fellows/
Graduate Fellowships Notebook - Cornell University
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/
Grants for Individuals: Graduate Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans
(Michigan State University)
http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3gradinf.htm
Nationally Coveted Scholarships, Fellowships & Postdoc Awards (portal
web site)
http://scholarships.kachinatech.com/scholarships/
Prestigious Fellowships to Explore - Calvin College
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/honors/pew/fellows.htm
Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants Division (Free-4u.com portal web
site)
http://www.free-4u.com/index.html