Funding and Fellowship Opportunities

• The Gunderson Award, established in memory of Virginia LaFollette Gunderson, recognizes the best essay written by an American Studies graduate student with prize money in the amount of $1,000.
• The Educational Opportunity Fellowship is designed to enable promising students who are first generation college graduates and who do not fare well in conventional competition for graduate fellowships. This is a one year award, renewable one time.
• Esther L. Kinsley PhD Dissertation Award. Must have completed Ph.D. degree during the previous academic year; one $5,000 award.
• Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship. For advanced IU Bloomington doctoral and MFA students to enhance their career preparation by experiencing faculty life in another academic environment, either, within and outside of Indiana.
• Grant-in-Aid of Doctoral Research. These awards provide funding for Bloomington graduate students for unusual expenses incurred in connection with doctoral dissertation research, such as travel to special libraries or laboratories, payments to consultants, specialized equipment, and duplication of vital materials needed for writing the dissertation. Expenses that are not supported include typing and duplicating of dissertations, normal living expenses, routine laboratory supplies, and computers.
• Students are urged to apply for financial aid in their home department.