BU Fellowships, Awards, & Grants
- Boston University Center for the Humanities (BUCH)
- Awards, Dissertation Fellowship, and Summer Humanities Internships
- Deadlines are normally early in the spring semester. Please note that for the awards and dissertation fellowship there is typically an internal Romance Studies deadline to request nomination about two weeks prior to the BUCH deadline.
- Graduate Writing Fellowships
- Provides one year of funding for graduate study (added to the usual 5 years, this makes for a total of six years of funding).
- Deadline is typically early November
- GRS Bloom Dissertation Fellowships
- Funding for the summer prior to the year in which you will finish your dissertation.
- Deadline: Typically Nov. 1.
- GRS Graduate Research Abroad Fellowships (GRAF)
- Deadline: Please note that there is typically an internal Romance Studies deadline to request nomination about two weeks prior to the GRS deadline for submission.
- Whitney Young Fellowship
- Deadline: Typically in mid-February. Provides one year of funding for graduate study (added to the usual 5 years, this makes for a total of six years of funding).
- David Scott Palmer Research Grants on Latin America
- Deadline: Two cycles each year. Typically, fall applications due mid-November, spring applications due early March.
- Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future Summer Fellowships
- Deadline: Typically in mid-March
- Geddes Language Center Mini-Grants
- TFs and other graduate students who work in partnership with a full-time faculty member are encouraged to apply.
- GRS Graduate Student Organization Travel Grants
- Grants are offered in both a fall and spring cycle.
Other Funding Opportunities & Awards
The department regularly posts online notices of other fellowships and awards. These are mostly external funding opportunities, though some are BU specific.