Funding
Conference and Summer Research Grants
The Department provides modest amounts of competitively allocated grants to support Anthropology graduate students for conference travel and summer research or training on the following categories:
Travel
Other Department Awards
- Armelagos-Swedlund Graduate Research Award
- Sylvia Forman Award
Graduate School
- Pre-dissertation Research Grants (between $250 and $1000)
- Dissertation Research Grant (up to $1000)
- Dissertation Fieldwork Grants (between $1000-$5000 related to fieldwork)
- Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship (funding for under-represented groups completing their Dissertation)
Internal Funding - UMass Amherst
External Funding - Pre-dissertation, general
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowships Program (requires no more than 1 year of graduate study to apply; preferably 0 completed credits)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (requires no more than 1 year of graduate study to be eligible)
External Funding - Dissertation, general
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program
- The Leakey Foundation, Research Grants in Biological Anthropology
- National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
- Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship
- Wenner-Gren Foundation, Dissertation Fieldwork Grants
External Funding - Dissertation, writing
- American Association of University Women, AAUW
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowships
External Funding - Diversity
- American Anthropological Association (AAA) Dissertation Fellowship for Historically Underrepresented Persons
- American Association of University Women, AAUW
- Ford Foundation Fellowship Program
1. Pre-dissertation
2. Dissertation/Doctoral - Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
External Funding - Specialized Areas of Study
- Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Archaeological Institute of America
- Biological/Physical, Medical, Forensic, Primate
- Cultural
- Linguistic