The Dhar India Studies Program sometimes offers a limited amount of awards to support travel to the Indian Subcontinent for dissertation-related work.

CAHI announces a competition (two times per year) for travel costs related to travel for the purposes of research (visits to archives, fieldwork, etc.).

Eligibility: Any Ph.D. student in the arts and humanities (in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University) who has completed all course work, been advanced to candidacy, and who is at work on the dissertation. MFA students must be within one year of completing their thesis work.

Awards may be up to $2,000.

Summer pre-dissertation travel grants, administered by IU Global, support research-related summer travel abroad prior to conducting dissertation research abroad. Activities supported include exploring potential research sites, archives, or other research resources; establishing institutional affiliations; identifying and meeting local scholars and contacts.

Awards: Stipend set at economy round-trip airfare plus $1,000

The UGS Grant-in-Aid awards provide funding for Bloomington graduate students for unusual expenses incurred in connection with doctoral dissertation research. A student must have been formally admitted to Ph.D. candidacy by the application deadline (the Nomination to Candidacy Form must have been approved by the Dean of The University Graduate School). Students pursuing doctoral degrees other than the Ph.D. (i.e., Ed.D. or D.M.) may also apply for a Doctoral Student Grant-in-Aid of Research Award.

Current students must be enrolled full-time on the Bloomington campus during the semester in which an application is submitted (6 credit hours is considered full time).  The maximum amount awarded to any student is $1,000. The amount of the award is determined by the combination of available funding and the judged significance of the proposed work. Any eligible student may apply for the fall and spring competitions but may only receive a total of $1,000 per academic year.

These Grant-in-Aid awards provide funding for Bloomington MFA students for unusual expenses incurred in connection with MFA projects, such as travel to special libraries, payments to consultants, photocopies, electronics and specialized equipment. Expenses that are not supported include normal living expenses, routine supplies, and computers. In the case of requests for equipment, the Director of Graduate Studies must verify that neither the equipment requested nor the funds are available for its purchase. If an application is funded for an amount less than that necessary to purchase the equipment, the department will be responsible for supplying the additional funds. At the completion of the project, the equipment must remain with the department and be made available for future research projects by other graduate students.

COAS has additional dissertation fellowships available to students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. The fellowships include graduate student health insurance, but they do not include fee remissions. Students generally are not permitted to accept other appointments, fellowships, or outside employment during the fellowship year.

You must be nominated by your graduate program for College Dissertation Completion Fellowships; the College does not accept applications directly from students. Each program is allowed to nominate up to three students total. If you are interested in being nominated, contact your department’s Director of Graduate Studies to learn more about your program’s nomination procedures.

These COAS awards are intended to assist advanced graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences to make significant progress on their dissertations. During the fellowship year, students have the opportunity to focus full-time on their dissertation research and writing. Students must be formally admitted to Ph.D. candidacy by January 16 of the application year to be eligible for the fellowship. The fellowships do include student health insurance, but do not include fee remissions; students generally are not permitted to accept other appointments, fellowships, or outside employment during the fellowship year.

You must be nominated by your graduate program for College Dissertation Year Research Fellowships; the College does not accept applications directly from students. Each program is allowed to nominate up to three students total. If you are interested in being nominated, contact your department’s Director of Graduate Studies to learn more about your program’s nomination procedures.

The GPSG research award is offered through a competitive process for graduate and professional students at Indiana University Bloomington. A flat award of $1,000 is given to help support research expenses incurred in connection with academic research, such as travel costs related to field, archival or laboratory research, payment for research related services, and purchase of research related supplies. Expenses that are not supported are typing and duplicating of dissertations, normal living expenses, and travel costs for conferences or workshops. Research awards are offered in spring semester only.