FGSA Guide to Fellowships for Students in the Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University

Date compiled: August 2010

While this list covers both common and less common funding sources for graduate students in the department, it does not pretend to be exhaustive. It is recommended that students search the GSAS fellowship database (available on the GSAS website) themselves, since their background or the nature of their project may make them eligible for support from a specialized fellowship not listed below.

According to the GSAS, “Each Fellow is required to submit evidence of at least one effort to obtain funding from an agency external to the University” per year. For that reason, external fellowship sources are included in this list.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas/sub/finaid/cstudents/fellowship/index.html

The information below comes from the GSAS fellowship database. For the source of funding, the following abbreviations are used:

FRRP = Department of French and Romance Philology
CU = Columbia University
Ex = external source.

General/Multi-use (including fellowships useful to first year students)

*Fellowship*	*Source*	*Typical Deadline*
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas/sub/finaid/cstudents/flas/	Ex	late February
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/liebmann/	Ex	December

Research Abroad (coursework, pre-dissertation research or dissertation research)

*Fellowship*	*Source*	*Typical Deadline*
École Normale Supérieure Fellowship	FRRP	early March
ENS Lyon Fellowship	FRRP	early March
GSAS -- CU International Travel Fellowship	CU	early February
Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust Fellowship	CU	February
Chateaubriand Fellowships for Research in France http://france-science.org/chateaubriand3/chateaubriand_/fellow-intro.php	Ex	mid-December
Fulbright Study Abroad Grants, Institute on International Education (IIE) http://fulbright.state.gov/	Ex	early September
Gilbert Chinard Fellowships http://blogs.davidson.edu/ogc/2007/11/institut_francais_de_washingto.html	Ex	mid-January
Doctoral Mobility of the Alliance Program http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alliance/research.html	CU	early November
Walter J. Jensen Fellowship for French Language, Literature, and Culture http://www.pbk.org/documents/FellowshipsAwards/JensenApp.pdf	Ex	early October
Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources [also for domestic use]	Ex
Ecole des Chartes Exchange Fellowship	Ex	mid-January
Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowships www.camargofoundation.org	Ex	mid-January
Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA) Programs	Ex	early January
Council for European Studies (CES) Fellowship	Ex	early February
NSEP Boren Graduate International Fellowships www.borenawards.org	Ex

Dissertation write-up

*Fellowship*	*Source*	*Typical Deadline*
Dissertation Fellowship	FRRP	early March
Whiting Foundation Fellowship	CU	mid-February
ACLS Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Completion	Ex	early November
Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowships www.camargofoundation.org	Ex	mid-January
Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship - - Woodrow Wilson Foundation http://woodrow.org/higher-education-fellowships/religion_ethics/index.php	Ex	mid-November
SPFFA: Jeanne Marandon fellowship http://spffa.org, email:sopffam@gmail.com	Ex
African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/aads/resources/dissfellowship.html	Ex	February 3, 2012

Special Eligibility (This is just a sample of what is available.)

*Fellowship*	*Source*	*Typical Deadline*
GSAS Merit Fellowships for Underrepresented PhD Candidates	CU
American Institute for Maghrib Studies, Research Grants for North African Scholars	CU	late January
Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship Phi Beta Kappa Society [for unmarried women dissertators between 25 and 35]	Ex	mid-January
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Scholarships	Ex
American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowships	Ex	varies
American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowships	Ex	varies
Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies - - Woodrow Wilson Foundation http://woodrow.org/higher-education-fellowships/women_gender/index.php	Ex
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships	Ex	November
Grace LeGendre Fellowships [for women]	Ex	late February

Summer study or research

*Fellowship*	*Source*	*Typical Deadline*
Summer Research Fellowship	FRRP	early March
GSAS Summer at Reid Hall Fellowship	CU	mid-February
Graduate Research Fellowships - Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University	CU	mid-March
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS): Summer	Ex	late February
Washington State University Summer Doctoral Fellows Program	Ex
Center for Arabic Studies Abroad (CASA) Programs	Ex	early January
Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes (Arabic and other Asian languages	Ex	early January
SPFFA: Summer study in Québec http://spffa.org/, email: sopffam@gmail.com	Ex	December 1st