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Resources for Graduate Students to find Fellowship Support

This is intended as a springboard for you to do your own research. I'm not making any claims about the merits of these links, or any guarantee that clicking them will get you a fellowship! E-mail me with suggestions, links you have found:

Louisa MacKenzie
Assistant Professor, French Studies
louisam@u.washington.edu

If you're starting grad school, start here.

Paying for Graduate School (Gradview.com portal web site)
http://www.gradview.com/financialaid/index.html

For UW grad students:

As yet there is no departmental fellowship for French and Italian grads. However there is a university-wide competition for grads writing dissertations, the Humanities Dissertation Fellowship. You might want to start here if you are writing. The Fulbright, Fritz, Javitz, Western European Travel Grant, are all study-abroad grants that you should look into if you want to spend a year abroad.

Start at the U's own portal

UW links to grad fellowship and financial info, including Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, Fritz, Fulbright, Javitz, Western Europe Travel Grant, the Pembroke fellowship (for study in Cambridge, England).
http://www.grad.washington.edu/fellow/fellow_area.htm

and the calendar:
http://www.grad.washington.edu/fellow/FellCalendar.htm

many application forms can be found at
http://www.grad.washington.edu/forms/forms.htm


A UW teaching fellowship

The announcement of the annual competition for Huckabay Teaching Fellowships is now available on the Graduate School's web site at
http://www.grad.washington.edu/pff/huckabay.htm

This offers one quarter's support for you to work on a teaching-related project. The student designs a project around their own academic interests, in collaboration with a faculty mentor.

Foreign Service Careers

For MA students interested in pursuing a career in the US foreign service, there is the Pickering Fellowship, administered by Woodrow Wilson Fund. It is intended for recent grads or seniors who want to pursue an MA relevant to a career in foreign service (including foreign languages):

http://www.woodrow.org/public-policy/graduate.php

Study Abroad

The Bourse Chateaubriand is a prestigious fellowships for one year study in France. For US citizens.

http://www.france-science.org/chateaubriand_2005/index.htm

The Phi Beta Kappa Society offers the Walter J. Jensen Fellowship for French Language, Literature and Culture. The award offers a stipend of $10,000 plus airfare to study in France.

Rotary awards

Click on "Ambassadorial Scholarships". Grant to study abroad. Apply through the local Rotary in your college town or your home town.

http://www.rotary.org/foundation/programs.html

Useful overview of the Rotary at
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/icenter/orc/scholarships/rotary.html

UW department exchanges
E-mail me  to ask about the exchange programs between the French Department at the UW, and institutions in France and Switzerland (usually only for advanced grads doing dissertation research on French or Francophone culture)

Support through school

Mellon Fellowships: usually two years of support for entering grads. Prestigious.

Mellon fellowships for humanities
http://www.woodrow.org/mellon/

At some point you might want to think about taking out loans. Federal subsidized are a good deal since interest does not accumulate until you finish. Apply with a FAFSA form, through the U's financial aid office. http://www.washington.edu/students/osfa/. See also:

The Department of Education - Financial Aid Student Guide
http://www.ed.gov/topics/topics.jsp?&top=Financial+Aid
http://www.ed.gov/prog_info/SFA/StudentGuide/

Financial Aid Information Page (SmartStudent Guide portal web site). Some info on scholarships too, and good info on SCAMS! (Beware of these, if it sounds too good to be true, it is).
http://www.finaid.org.

Other sites to browse (not UW specific)

Here are some other portals I have found with a mass of assembled information on lots of scholarships. Worth browsing on a fast modem or ethernet connection if you have one. The links should work directly - if not, cut and paste. Note that a site put up by a particular university does NOT mean you have to be a student at that university.

For minorities and women:

Portal site:
http://scholarships.fatomei.com/scholar3.html

National Women’s Studies Association Awards & Scholarships (portal web site)
http://www.nwsa.org/scholarship/index.php

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
http://www.pdsoros.org/


General databases

College Scholarships, Graduate Fellowships & Postdoc (portal web site)
http://scholarships.fatomei.com/

Scholarships and Financial Aid for Minorities and Women (Fundsnet portal web site)
http://www.fundsnetservices.com/finaid06.htm

"Paying for College 101" - a powerpoint presentation from Purdue University
http://www.purdue.edu/DFA/all/paying.htm

Free Web Scholarship Search (FastWeb portal web site)
http://www3.fastweb.com/index.ptml

Nationally Competitive Graduate Fellowships - NCSU
http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/grad_fellows/
 
Graduate Fellowships Notebook - Cornell University (mostly non-Cornell sources). Simple, helpful site.
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/

Grants for Individuals: Graduate Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans (Michigan State University)
http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3gradinf.htm

Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants Division (Free-4u.com portal web site- lots of pop-up ads which is usually suspect, but you might find something if you're careful).
http://www.free-4u.com/index.html

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