Teaching Assistantships and Fellowships

Many graduate students are funded through teaching assistantships. The History Department receives approximately twenty-five teaching assistantships per year from various sources; it also has a small number of graduate assistantships. Many full-time graduate students receive full tuition waivers. In addition, the Department has a series of Presidential Fellowships, created by the president of the university, to be used to recruit promising new doctoral students. The Department also has an endowed fellowship, known as the Evan Frankel Foundation Fellowship, that is given each year to an outstanding first year student in the doctoral program and continues for four years. The Gardiner Graduate Fellowship awards funding to a graduate student researching early American History or subjects related to aspects of American history in which the Gardiner family played an important role - principally colonial American history and the history of the greater New York region.

Various Awards and Other Funding

The History Department has limited funds to subsidize graduate student travel to conferences and research depositories through the Werner T. Angress Graduate Student Fund. The Fred Weinstein Award is presented annually to the student judged to have written the best dissertation chapter. The Ernesto Chinchilla/Aguilar Award is presented annually to a distinguished graduate student in Latin American History. In addition, a small number of graduate student summer travel grants are available through a grant form the Mellon Foundation.

Stony Brook's Graduate Student Organization provides a yearly award for professional development known as the Resource Access Project (RAP). RAP forms can be found here.

Outside Fellowships and Grants