The Department of History recognizes outstanding graduate student achievement through
a range of awards and prizes that support research, teaching, and professional development.
These honors reflect the department’s commitment to scholarly excellence and acknowledge
graduate students at key stages of their academic and professional trajectories.
Awards may support archival and field research, conference travel, dissertation completion,
pedagogical innovation, and public-facing scholarship. Prizes are typically awarded
on a competitive basis and are adjudicated by faculty committees. Eligibility criteria
and application procedures vary by award.
Through these opportunities, the department seeks to foster rigorous historical inquiry,
encourage interdisciplinary and transnational research, and support graduate students
as they prepare for careers in academia, education, and the public sector.
History Department Graduate Teaching Awards
This award is open to any graduate student who has served as a Teaching Assistant
during the previous year.
This award is open to any graduate students who has either taught their own class
(including summer or winter sessions) or who has demonstrated particular innovation
as a Teaching Assistant in leading a section of large course
History Department Graduate Research & Dissertation Awards
This award recognizes excellence in research and writing for a Field, Theme, or Research
seminar during the previous academic year. (Note: To allow for submission of papers
completed during Spring semester, this award is presented during new student orientation
the subsequent academic year.)
These grants support advanced doctoral students’ writing and research during the summer.
Eligible students must either be All but Dissertation (ABD) in good standing or PhD
students who have passed their Oral examination and are currently enrolled in History
Prospectus (pending approval of their prospectus). Students may self-nominate by submitting
a 2-page research proposal outlining their dissertation topic and how the proposed
research will facilitate its completion.
This award funds dissertation research that involves archival research. Eligible students
must either be All but Dissertation (ABD) in good standing or PhD students who have
passed their Oral examination and are currently enrolled in History Prospectus (pending
approval of their prospectus). Students may self-nominate students by submitting a
2-page research proposal outlining the topic of their dissertation and how the proposed
research will facilitate its completion.
This award is open to any advanced graduate student at All but Dissertation (ABD)
level. Students may self-nominate by submitting a chapter, preliminary table of contents,
and a brief 1-page statement explaining how the chapter fits into the larger dissertation.
