Graduate Studies
Nondepartmental Awards
FLAS Fellowship:
Description: The fellowship is available to American citizens studying East Asian, East Europe/Russia, Latin America, or West Europe. The Fellowship requires no teaching and usually assumes the student will take advanced language training during the tenure of the fellowship.
Rights: The fellowships are renewable for up to two years.
Decisions: The graduate committee nominates internal and external applicants. After that, a committee in REES, Latin American studies, Asian studies, or West European studies makes awards from an applicant pool that includes sociology and other disciplines. For details, visit http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/main Those who began in a TA/TF position before they entered the FLAS stream or who declined a TA/TF position in favor of a FLAS when they entered the program will be put into the four-year tenure stream TA/TF pool upon completion of their externally funded fellowship.
K. Leroy Irvis
Description: Available to African American students. Requires no teaching. Rights: As long as the student makes good progress, the department promises to offer a T AlTF position after the fellowship year.
Decisions: The graduate committee makes nomination to the graduate dean. The committee looks for students for whom it can make a case for exceptional promise.
Andrew Mellon
Description: This is a research fellowship for advanced students undertaking dissertation research or writing the dissertation. No teaching is required.
Rights: Renewable for up to two years, although renewals are not guaranteed. If a student has TA/TF time left, the student returns to the T/ATF stream after the fellowship year or years.
Decisions: Applications and specific deadline information are available from the graduate secretary in 2400 Wesley W. Posvar Hall. Applications are due in January. The graduate committee examines the applications, ranks them, and sends them along with a cover letter, to the dean's office. A University committee than determines who gets the awards.
Provost's Development Fund
Description: Available to minority students. "Minority" is defined on the form as groups that "Continue to be underrepresented in the national pool of earned doctoral degrees as well as within the professionals at the University of Pittsburgh. " This requires no teaching.
Decisions: Applications are available from the graduate secretary in 2400 Wesley W. Provost Hall, the graduate director, or the dean's office. The graduate committee must forward the application of a new student if the department is obligated to provide further T A/TF support.
Japan Iron and Steel Federation/Mitsubishi Graduate Fellowship in Japanese Studies
Funded through the Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi Endowment Funds and graduate and professional schools of the University of Pittsburgh , these awards provide tuition, fees, and a $16,000 stipend for the academic year to support the study of Japan by graduate students in the social sciences or humanities. Applicants must have completed at least two years of Japanese language study or the equivalent by the inception of the award period.
Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship in Chinese Studies
These awards support PhD students in any field of Chinese studies. Each provides tuition, fees, and a $16,000 stipend covering two terms of graduate study, and may be renewable for up to two additional years. Applicants should have completed at least two years of Chinese language study or the equivalent by the inception of the award period.
China Studies Tuition Remission Scholarships
These awards cover tuition expenses for all or part of one or two terms of full-time study at the University of Pittsburgh for: (1) graduate students, of any nationality, in any field of China studies; or (2) graduate students, in any field, from Greater China, which includes the People's Republic of China, the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
American Bar Foundation (ABF)
The American Bar Foundation is offering two similar fellowships. One is the American Bar Foundation's Dissertation Fellowship and the other is a joint venture sponsored by the Law and Society Association, along with the American Bar Foundation and the National Science Foundation, entitled "Law and Social Science Doctoral and Mentoring Fellowships. Please click on the link for more information including deadlines and details.