Financial Assistance: Graduates
- Associate Instructorships are available to students who have completed the AMST core courses and have prior teaching experience.
- For deadline, contact
Paula Cotner
American Studies
Ballantine Hall 521
Phone: 855-7718 or
E-mail: amst
indiana.edu
- AMST graduate students create and teach their own topics courses.
- AIships are in the range of $13,000 with no fee remission.
- For deadline, contact
- 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. Students must submit an application to be eligible for nomination; the student application is due by January 15, 2009.
- Esther L. Kinsley PhD Dissertation Award. Must have completed Ph.D. degree during the previous academic year; one $5,000 award. All material must be turned into us by Monday, February 2, 2009.
- 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. Deadline Friday, October 10, 2008.
- 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. Student deadline: You must submit your application/materials to us by Friday, October 3, 2008 (Fall competition), and Friday, February 13, 2009 (Spring competition).
- Students are urged to apply for financial aid in their home department.
