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. 

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

Grant-in-Aid Awards provide Bloomington M.F.A. and doctoral candidates funding for unusual expenses incurred in connection with M.F.A. projects or doctoral dissertation research. 

The maximum award is $1,000. The amount awarded will be determined by a combination of available funding and the judged significance of the proposed work.

Doctoral Applicants 
Must be:
-formally admitted to candidacy by the application deadline (NTC Form required)
-enrolled full-time on the Bloomington campus during the semester the application is submitted
-Ed.D. and D.M. students are eligible to apply 

Master's of Fine Arts Applicants
Must be:
- formally admitted to an M.F.A. program by the application deadline 
- enrolled full-time on the Bloomington campus during the semester the application is submitted

Allowable Expenses

Doctoral applicants. Unusual expenses incurred in connection with doctoral dissertation research, such as travel to special libraries or laboratories, payments to consultants, specialized equipment, and duplication of vital materials needed for writing the dissertation.

M.F.A. applicants. Unusual expense incurred in connection with M.F.A. projects, such as travel to special libraries, materials, photocopies, electronics, and specialized equipment.

Expenses not supported include normal living expenses, tuition, routine laboratory supplies, and computers. 

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.