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Humanities
Humanities
The Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program: Strategies for Writing a Competitive Application
The Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program is a unique opportunity to apply to spend two years working with a public or private organization committed to advancing the public good and to hiring recent humanities PhDs. Dr. John Paul Christy, Program Director for Public Programs at the ACLS, recently visited campus to talk about the program and […]
A Fellowship to Do Some Cool Things
We typically write about fellowship and grant opportunities that are designed to support you and to advance your work on a scholarly project. In this post, I want to share with you the benefits of a different type of fellowship: one that will support you as you gain experience working in a profession. The Mellon/ACLS […]
Stop, Collaborate, and Listen
GradFund is a grant and fellowship application development service run by a staff of deans, Fellowship Advisors and Peer Mentors. We have a unique staff of graduate and post-doc students from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. You may come from Comparative Literature, for example, and book an appointment with an advisor from Spanish, Political […]
Conducting Research in Private Collections and Archives
I am a fourth year PhD candidate in art history and a Fulbright Scholar to France. In addition, I am a pensionnaire étrangère (foreign exchange student), at the École Normale Supérieur. I have been in Paris since September 2015 conducting research for my dissertation on female artists and their representations of the nude in early […]
Coursework, Comps, Candidacy, and…Confusion: Knowing When You’re Eligible for a Doctoral Award
So you are well on your way to developing an individual funding plan. Maybe you’ve created a list of all the awards for which you will be eligible during your doctoral degree. Great! The next step is determining when to apply for these awards. And this is not always an easy task. Different awards are […]
Projecting into the Future: How to Plan for the Next Phase of Research
Hello GradFund Conversations readers! Planning for the future is one of the most crucial yet often overlooked or misunderstood aspects of applying for and obtaining funding. Maybe you are planning your dissertation proposal and would like some money to do the work you are proposing. You may just need to shift into a new phase […]
Is Archival Research Right for Me?
Archival Research in the Humanities Series Note: A lot of funding for humanities graduate work is tied to travel for research, so pursuing archival research can open up opportunities to apply for funding to support pre-dissertation and dissertation research. And, of course, archival research can lead you to deepen and expand your project in meaningful […]
Describing a Research Project Before You Have One
A common requirement for grant applications is that you describe your project. It’s a reasonable request for the people offering you money to want to know what you’ll do with it. However, a lot of us enter graduate school without knowing what we’re going to study while we’re here. Particularly in the lab sciences, many […]
Keeping Your Reviewer in Mind: Merging the Worlds of the Unfamiliar with the Familiar
As graduate students, we like to stay in our cozy, academic silos. Why? Because there, we are free to use our jargon with ease, our colleagues will likely be familiar with our theoretical frameworks, and our research methods are generally accepted. But what happens when we must venture out into the world of funding agencies, where […]