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Financial Aid, Assistantships, and External Funding

For PhD students:

All students admitted into the PhD program are funded by the Henry Mitchell MacCracken Program for five years. (Candidates who have already completed an applicable MA receive four years of funding instead.) Fully-funded MacCracken supported students receive full tuition and fee remission, a living stipend, and NYU health insurance for the four or five years of their fellowship. Each five-year award combines three years (six semesters) of fellowship funding with two years (four semesters) of teaching assistantship funding. Four-year awards combine five semesters of fellowship funding with three semesters of teaching assistantship funding. The stipend amount for 2009-2010 will be $22,440. New students also receive a one-time $1,000 stipend that may be used for start-up expenses.

The department welcomes applications from candidates who have outside fellowships. Enhanced support packages for students who enter with outside fellowships are designed on a case-by-case basis by the History Department and the Graduate School, depending on the terms of the external award. Typically, for students who receive an external award, NYU’s enhanced support package can include additional years of funding, summer funding, or decreased assistantship responsibilities.

Continuing graduate students are encouraged to seek external sources of funding. Outside funding enables advanced students to undertake research in archives located abroad or in other U.S. cities. The Graduate School of Arts and Science also offers competitive awards for students to pursue pre-dissertation and dissertation research. Up-to-date information about internal and external grants and fellowships appears below on this webpage. Smaller grants for special purposes are also available.

For Master’s students:

Several graduate assistantships are offered to students in the Archives and Public History MA program within the archives concentration, in conjunction with Bobst Library.  All applicants to the Archives and Public History MA program are automatically considered for these assistantships. 

The Tuition Assistance Program for school teachers offers a 50% tuition discount to full-time primary and secondary teachers in New York City who are enrolled in the master’s program in World History. Awards granted under this program are contingent on the availability of funds. The application form can be downloaded here: TAP for Teachers form.

Master's students in World History are also encouraged to apply for a Foreign Language And Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship through NYU. Links to relevant departments through which students can apply appear below under GSAS funding.

The Graduate School’s Tuition Incentive Program (TIP) encourages students to apply for external grants and provides matching tuition points (from 50 to 100 percent) to eligible recipients of external awards from recognized, academic sources of funding outside NYU.  For applications and specific details about TIP eligibility criteria, please visit www.nyu.edu/gsas/Admissions/tipform.html.  New York University offers several loan programs to students.  Information is available at www.nyu.edu/financial.aid or at the Office of Financial Aid, 212-998-4444.

The GSAS/CAS Tuition Program: Qualified CAS students graduating in 2009 or later who complete the admissions application process and are admitted to the master's programs in History (World History, Archives and Public History, or History of Women and Gender), as well as the BA/MA program, in the term immediately following the year of their graduation from CAS, will be eligible to receive a 25% tuition discount for courses required for the degree program.

Sources of Funding

Departmental Funding:

Information on departmental funding opportunities will be posted under the Related Information column at the top right of this page throughout the academic year.

GSAS funding:

GSAS Awards http://gsas.nyu.edu/page/grad.life.fellowships.html

GSAS Travel Grants http://gsas.nyu.edu/page/grad.travelgrant

Center for Ancient Studies Ranieri International Scholars Fund Grants http://ancientstudies.fas.nyu.edu/page/travelgrants

Middle East Foreign Language And Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/4_FLAS.html

West European Foreign Language And Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships http://cems.as.nyu.edu/object/cems.grad.fellowships.html#applyflas 

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Foreign Language And Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/latin/FLAS_PAGE.html 

External Funding

GSAS Resources for External Funding:

GSAS listing of External Fellowships http://gsas.nyu.edu/page/grad.financialaid.externalfellowships

GSAS OTS Digest listing of Funding Opportunities http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/ots_06032008_fundingop.html  

History Department Listing of External Funding Sources:

Below are some major fellowships and grants that have in the past supported doctoral students; students are encouraged to research other possible fellowships not listed below, as funding opportunities change by year.

American Council of Learned Societies http://www.acls.org/grants/default.aspx?id=354

CLIR Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html

Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/index.html **Note students must apply through the GSAS Office of Academic and Student Life

Fulbright Student Program (IIE) http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/grad.acadlife.fulbright **Note students must apply through the GSAS Office of Academic and Student Life

National Security Education Program http://www.iie.org/programs/nsep/graduate/

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships http://www.woodrow.org/newcombe/

Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) and Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) http://fellowships.ssrc.org/

United States Institute of Peace Dissertation Fellowships http://www.usip.org/fellows/  

Below are additional fellowships and grants that have supported doctoral students. Some are smaller and/or field-specific. Students are again encouraged to research other possible fellowships not listed below, as funding opportunities change by year.

American Bar Foundation Doctoral Fellowships in Law and Social Science http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/research/Fellowshipopportunities.html

American Philosophical Society grants: http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/

Archaeological Institute of America Fellowships http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10007

Center for Historical Research at Ohio State University, Dissertation Fellowship http://chr.osu.edu/default.cfm#

Center of Military History Dissertation Fellowships www.army.mil/cmh

Central Europe Summer Research Institute (CESRI) http://www.iie.org//Content/NavigationMenu/Programs7/CESRI/CESRI.htm

Council for American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes https://clscholarship.org/home.php

Council for European Studies (CES) Fellowship Program http://www.ces.columbia.edu/awards/awards.html

Danky Fellowship, Wisconsin Historical Society: http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/fellowship.html

The Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize http://www.historyoftechnology.org/awards/levinson.html

Gerald R. Ford Foundation Grants: http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/hpgrants.asp

The Formby Research Fellowships http://swco.ttu.edu/Formby%20Fellowship/formby_research_fellowships.htm

Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Grants: http://www.nysarchivestrust.org/aptindex.shtml

Harvard Academy Scholars Pre- and Post-doctoral Fellowships http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy/index.html

Heller-Bernard Dissertation Research Award in Gender and Sexuality Studies http://www.nyu.edu/csgs

IHR Mellon Fellowships for Doctoral Research in the Humanities http://www.history.ac.uk/awards/#mellon

Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) Fellowships: www.irex.org/programs/iaro/index.asp

Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University http://www.theihs.org/ContentDetails.aspx?id=178

Law and Society Association—Law & Social Science Dissertation Fellowship & Mentoring Program http://www.lawandsociety.org/

Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowships http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/short_term.cfm

McNeal Center for Early American Studies (MCEAS) Dissertation Fellowship Program http://www.mceas.org/fellowships.htm

Miller Center Fellowship http://millercenter.org/academic/gage/fellowship

NACBS Dissertation Year Fellowship http://www.nacbs.org/diss.html

NY State Research in History Residency Program http://www.archives.nysed.gov/apt/grants/quinn_guideline.shtml

Penn State-Mellon Foundation Dissertation Seminar (summer humanities doctoral fellowship): http://www.earlymod.psu.edu/links.htm

Jerrold Seigel Fellowship in Intellectual and Cultural History http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cich/fellowship.html

Shalem Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowships http://www.shalemcenter.org.il/education/?did=21

Smith Richardson Foundation http://www.srf.org/grants/world_politics.php

The Society of Cincinnati Tyree-Lamb Research Fellowship
http://www.societyofthecincinnati.org/tyree.htm

Stanford Humanities Fellows postdoctoral fellowships http://fellows.stanford.edu/application.html

Stanford University Pre/Post Doc Fellowships in International Security http://cisac.stanford.edu/fellowships/predoctoral_and_postdoctoral_fellowships_in_international_security/

Starr Center Fellowships at Washington College: http://starrcenter.washcoll.edu/fellows/index.php

University of Michigan Clements Library, Price Visiting Research Fellowship http://www.clements.umich.edu/Services.html#Price

Williams College Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation and Post-MFA Fellowships: http://www.williams.edu/admin/deanfac/fellowships/bolin.php

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women's Studies: http://www.woodrow.org/fellowships/women_gender/index.php

Winterthur Research Fellowship Program http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp  

Note: If any of the above links are outdated, or if you know of a grant or fellowship that would be appropriate to add to our list, please contact: history.dept@nyu.edu.

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