Funding | Graduate Studies
The Department of History of Art is committed to supporting its doctoral students from matriculation onwards, both financially and professionally. The Department accepts a maximum of 5 Ph.D. students each year to study in the areas of Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Medieval Art of both the East and West, Renaissance and Baroque Art, Modern and Contemporary Art of Europe and the Americas, Islamic Art, and African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art. Each Ph.D. student is guaranteed a competitive package of 4 years of financial support, comprising a combination of recruitment fellowships with tuition remission, and Associate Instructor positions with tuition remission. In addition, our doctoral students are routinely awarded a variety of national and international grants. Since 2006, our doctoral students have received fellowships for coursework from the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, and the Foreign Language and Area Studies program of the U.S. Department of Education (Maya, Bamana, Italian, Russian), and for dissertation research and writing from the Fulbright Program (South Africa, Cyprus, France, Mali), the Fulbright-Hays Program (South Africa, Mali), the Social Science Research Council (International Dissertation Research Fellowship), the Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, the Society of Architectural Historians/Samuel Kress Foundation, the Medieval Academy of America, the Smithsonian Institution, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, the Barra Foundation of American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as the Amon Carter Museum of Art in Fort Worth.
Master's students frequently hold Graduate Assistant positions with tuition remission both in the Department of History of Art and at the Indiana University Art Museum, and many have taken advantage of internships at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Financial Aid
Each year a number of Art History graduate students hold AI or GA appointments from the Department of the History of Art or from the Indiana University Art Museum. Applications for these positions should be made early in the spring semester. Notification of application deadlines will be sent via the Art History Association (AHA) listserve.
Criteria for AI/GA Positions
While academic merit is the prime consideration, the scarcity of positions forces the faculty to consider other criteria as well, e.g., timely completion of M.A. essay and language requirements, along with similar questions of academic progress.
Students are not assigned according to seniority, but rather to the best interest and needs of the department.
Normally, no student except those who have been admitted with a special Apackage@ of awards will be awarded more than three years of AI/GA support. Please note, however, that this three year period is a limit and not a guarantee. Since AI/GA positions automatically carry fee scholarships, these positions must go to the students who will make the best possible use of the 12 credit hours per semester. Masters students who have completed 30 credit hours are ineligible for further financial aid.
Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid
The Office of Scholarships and Financial Aids offers financial aid based on need. Their priority deadline is March 1 of each year for the next academic year. Work/study, GSL, NDSL, etc. are available through this office. They are located in the Franklin Hall, room 208.
The Louise McNutt Fellowships in the Humanities will become available in 2005.
For Ph.D. research a number of awards are available through the Graduate School.
These include Graduate School Research Fellowships, Dissertation Year Fellowships, Graduate School Alumni Off-Campus Research Fellowships, John Edwards Fellowships, Esther Kinsley Dissertation Award. Contact the Graduate School for more information on these awards (855-8854). In addition the Graduate School awards Grant-in-Aid of Research awards, to help with extraordinary expenses connected with research for the Ph.D. or for a terminal degree. Such expenses may include the cost of gathering data, payment to subjects, travel to specialized libraries or laboratories, unusual computer costs or costs of data tapes, and supplies for a project. Customary or standard expenses (such as typing, copying, mailing of dissertation or drafts, etc.) are not eligible for support under this program. The maximum award to a student during his or her research and writing is $750. Application forms are available in the Graduate School and can be downloaded.
Deadlines for the three Grants-in-Aid of Research competitions each year are: September 15, February 1, and June 1. Your department requires your application a week before these deadlines. The department also offers one or two fellowships available to new graduate students.
The Departmental Assistant posts fellowship opportunities on the Graduate Bulletin Board outside the departmental office and distributes the same information on the AHA list serve. Also, a file is kept in the History of Art Office with information on awards available through other institutions. You should also check with the office of Research and Graduate Development for other available awards.
You should also go to the Graduate Grants Center, located on the sixth floor of the Main Library. Funded by the Indiana University Graduate School, this center helps students get their hand on as many databases for information about funding for graduate programs or for proposal writing. It conducts searches through three computer databases, which give graduate students access to about 450 funding sources and it helps students with sample inquiry letters. Contact the Main Library 812 (855-5281).
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