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FundingWho Gets Funded?Everyone. Our program funds about fifty students each year, reserving stipends for approximately a dozen new students each year. Although we allow late applications to the program without funding, our initial offers are for fully-funded spots. How Much Funding is Available?The base stipend for the 2009-2010 academic year is $15,200 for the nine-month academic year. Some research assistantships provide a stipend of up to $20,560 for 11 months. All students on stipend receive free tuition during Fall and Spring semesters and have the opportunity to purchase at minimal cost the University's graduate student accident and sickness insurance plan. Students are also eligible to teach in the summer or winter sessions (depending on course availability) for extra income. How Long Does the Funding Last?As long as satisfactory progress toward degree is being made, we guarantee funding for the two years of the MA program and for the three years of the Ph.D. Students who take longer than three years to complete the Ph.D. can have their tuition paid if they teach two courses per semester on a contract basis. What are the Funding Opportunities?Most students receive their funding for teaching three courses per year. Some teach fewer courses and do tutoring in the University Writing Center. And still others serve as research assistants to individual professors in the English Department. Our program also places graduate students in assistantships in other units in the university, such as the English Department's Writing Program, the Library's Special Collections Department and the McNair Program. We aim to provide each third-year Ph.D. student with a fellowship to relieve them of teaching duties and facilitate work on the dissertation.
Mellon Fellowship The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is currently accepting applications for the 2009 Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources. The purposes of this fellowship program are to:- help junior scholars in the humanities and related social-science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original sources; - enable dissertation writers to do research wherever relevant sources may be, rather than just where financial support is available;- encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related repositories in the U.S. and abroad; and - provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the future. The program offers about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships for 2009. Each provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for 9–12 months. Each fellow will receive an additional $1,000 upon participating in a symposium on research in original sources and submitting an acceptable report to CLIR on the research experience. Thus the maximum award will be $25,000. Fellowship stipends will support research beginning between June 1 and September 1, 2009, and ending within 12 months of commencing. Fellowships will not be renewed or extended. Fellows are expected to devote full time to their dissertation research without holding teaching or research assistantships or undertaking other paid work. Applicants may apply simultaneously for other fellowships, including Mellon awards, but fellows may not hold other fellowships simultaneously with CLIR's. Fellows may use stipends to meet living expenses, travel costs, and other expenses that enable dissertation research to be carried out, but not to defray tuition. Applicants do not have to be U.S. citizens, but must be enrolled in a doctoral program in a graduate school in the United States. For further information on eligibility, requirements, and deadlines, please visit CLIR’s website at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html.
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