Graduate Studies
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Jared Patten was awarded the Timothy J. Rogers Summer Dissertation Fellowship for 2011. |
Outstanding Fellowship and Teaching Opportunities
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese offers fellowships and graduate stipends featuring excellent opportunities for research and teaching language and culture courses in our department. M.A. students receive guaranteed funding for two years, while Ph.D. students receive a guaranteed five years of funding (a total of 7 years of funding for those pursuing MA-Ph.D.). Funding is contingent on satisfactory teaching. The graduate stipend for 2011-12 is $15,456 and includes a full tuition remission as well as student health insurance. Additional fellowships are also offered to highly competitive candidates.
Additionally, graduate students may apply to teach specialized courses in the Honors College, the Global Village, summer courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese or overseas through the Indiana University Honors Program. All graduate students receive thorough professional training and mentoring in research and classroom teaching.
The Department makes several annual awards to continuing students:
- The J. M. Hill prize for an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper recognizes the winner with a cash award.
- The Academic Year Fellowship provides a fellowship with release from teaching for one semester.
- The Timothy J. Rogers Summer Dissertation Fellowship provides a stipend for summer research.
- The Merle E. Simmons Travel Fellowship for Research on Latin America Literature, is awarded to a continuing graduate student in our department who is pursuing the Ph.D. in Latin American literature and who will use the funds for a research trip to Mexico, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Spain or Portugal.
- Departmental Travel Grants provide funding for Ph.D students presenting work at conferences.
Doctoral students are eligible for travel funds each year, including the Bieder Fellowship, to present original research at national and international conferences.
In addition to these departmental awards, students from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese apply and receive many awards announced by the College of Arts and Sciences and the University Graduate School, such as the Dissertation Year Fellowship, the Wells Fellowship, and the John Edwards Fellowship. Foreign Language Area Study (FLAS) fellowships from CLACS and WEST are frequently won by students in the department. For a list of awards, please see the University Graduate School's and the College of Arts and Sciences' announcements.
For more information, please contact Ms. Jennifer Brown in the Graduate Office.
