Teaching Assistantships, Fellowships, and Other Support
Many graduate students are funded through teaching asssistantships. The History Department receives approximately twenty-five teaching assistantships per year from various sources; it also has a small number of graduate assistantships. Many full-time graduate students receive full tuition waivers. In addition, the Department has available to it a series of Presidential Fellowships, created by the president of the university, to be used to recruit promising new doctoral students. The Department also has an endowed fellowship, known as the Evan Frankel Foundation Fellowship, that is given each year to an outstanding first year student in the doctoral program and continues for four years. The Gardiner Graduate Fellowship awards funding to a graduate student researching early American history or subjects related to aspects of American history in which the Gardiner family played an important role - principally colonial American history and the history of the greater New York region.
Everyone who applies is automatically considered for financial assistance from the History Department, usually in the form of a Teaching Assistantship/Tuition Scholarship. There are no special forms to fill out for Departmental support.
Graduate Council Fellowships and Turner Fellowships – Entering graduate students in history may also be nominated by the admissions committee to compete for these university-sponsored awards. If you wish to be considered for either of these financial opportunities, you will need to have your application completed before January 1st. Students wishing to be considered for these awards must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents. Turner Fellows must self-identify as either African-American, Native American, or Hispanic on their application
US Citizens and Permanent Residents are also eligible for other forms of financial aid, which are applied for via the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. Click here for more information, also to apply.
Most NY residents are also eligible for the NYS Tuition Assistance Program (TAP). Click here for more information, also to apply.
Various Awards and Other Funding for Existing Students
The History Department has limited funds to subsidize graduate student travel to conferences and research depositories through the Werner T. Angress Graduate Student Fund. The Fred Weinstein Award is presented annually to the student judged to have written the best dissertation chapter. The Ernesto Chinchilla/Aguilar Award is presented annually to a distinguished graduate student in Latin American History. In addition, a small number of graduate student summer travel grants are available through a grant form the Mellon Foundation.
Stony Brook’s Graduate Student Organization provides a yearly award for professional development known as the Resource Access Project (RAP). RAP forms can be found here.
Students already in the history doctoral program, especially once they get to the dissertation-writing phase, have a strong track record of earning additional university-wide as well as outside grants and fellowships. See Awards and Achievements for a list of those recently earned by our doctoral students.
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Please click here for this fall’s schedule of papers and speakers in this initiative. The series is a collaborative effort of the History and Sociology Departments at Stony Brook.
