Aid Application Deadlines

For submission in 2011-2012 (awards for 2012-2013)

all deadlines subject to change; watch your e-mail for updates

NOTE: Applications that have a deadline date “to NELC” are vetted by the department before being sent to the Dean of Students Office. Please be sure you adhere to this internal deadline, not a deadline you might see elsewhere or one mentioned by a student in another department. Information about applications can be found on the Humanities Division Website or the 2012-2013 Humanities Division Fellowship Guide.

All applications should be submitted electronically.  Applications due to NELC should be emailed to Adrianne Renberg (arenberg@uchicago.edu); applications due to the Dean of Students in Walker 111 should be emailed to Michael Beetley (mrbeetle@uchicago.edu).

In-residence FLAS (Title VI)

Purpose: provide funding for students studying designated modern foreign languages
Qualifications: Scholastic Residence, US citizen or Permanent Resident
APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED TO WALKER 111 by January 18, 2012

Stuart Tave-Whiting Teaching Fellowship

Purpose: provide funding for students to teach a course of their own design in the College
Qualifications: ABD by January 31, 2012; one completed, approved dissertation chapter
APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED TO NELC by JANUARY 11, 2012

Dissertation-year Fellowships

(Whiting, Franke, Harper, Mellon Humanities, Mellon Foundation/UC, Provost, Fallers)

Purpose: encourage completion of dissertation
Qualifications: must be admitted to candidacy by March 29, 2012; must not be beyond ninth year (sixth year for Mellon Foundation/UC, eighth year for Provost, Mellon Humanities, Fallers); one completed, approved dissertation chapter
APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED TO NELC by Februrary 28, 2012

Dissertation-year Fellowship (Vigneron)

Purpose: provide dissertation-year awards to promising candidates in French language and culture
Qualifications: must be admitted to candidacy by April 13, 2012; one completed, approved dissertation chapter
APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED TO NELC by APRIL 2, 2012

Honigberg Fellowship for Study in Paris

Purpose: fund twelve months of research in Paris
Qualifications: comprehensive exams completed; approved proposal not necessary but students already admitted to candidacy may apply
APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED TO NELC by APRIL 2, 2012

Ryerson Fellowship in Archaeology

Purpose: support travel to study excavations and collections overseas
Qualifications: working in Near Eastern archaeology (award given only in the absence of qualified candidates in Greek and Roman archaeology); research trip must begin by May 01, 2013
APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED TO WALKER 111 by MARCH 21, 2012

Hanna Holborn Gray Fellowship

Purpose: encourage completion of dissertation (two-year award, from proposal to submission)
Qualifications: current fourth-year student with course work, language requirements, and comprehensive exams completed by June 15, 2012; recipient must be admitted to candidacy by the end of Summer Quarter to hold the award
APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED TO NELC by APRIL 2, 2012

CROSS AND RANTZ SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS

Purpose: support students majoring in Egyptology, NW Semitics/ancient Judaica (Hebrew Bible students based in NELC may also apply
APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED BY EMAIL BY APRIL 13, 2012

Overseas Dissertation Research Grant 

Purpose: support for students financing their own dissertation research overseas
Qualifications: Humanities Ph.D. student in Scholastic or Advanced Residence.  Admission to candidacy before disbursement of the award. Begin research at location no earlier than the start of Summer Quarter 2012.Complete research at location no later than end of Spring Quarter 2013.

APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED TO WALKER 111 by May 11, 2012

Division of the Humanities Travel Grants

Purpose: support for short-term, research-related travel
Qualifications: Humanities Ph.D. student in Scholastic or Advanced Residence.  Admission to candidacy before disbursement of the award. Begin research at location no earlier than the start of Summer Quarter 2012.Complete research at location no later than end of Spring Quarter 2013.
APPLICATION MUST BE SUBMITTED TO WALKER 111 by MAY 11, 2012