Duke Graduate School

The Dissertation Research Travel Award from The Graduate School provides funding for Ph.D. students to travel outside the United States in order to conduct pre-dissertation or dissertation research.

The James B. Duke International Research Travel Fellowship provides an annual stipend (equivalent to the Graduate School-recommended Arts and Sciences nine-month stipend established each year), as well as tuition, mandatory fees and a $2,000 travel allowance for students who need to conduct their dissertation research abroad. In addition, The Graduate School will pay the health insurance premium for recipients who enroll in the Duke Student Medical Insurance Plan.

Through the generosity of the Julian Price Endowment, The Graduate School is offering several competitive fellowships with accompanying research awards.

Beginning in 2014, most Ph.D. students at Duke are guaranteed summer research fellowships for the summers after their first and second academic years of study. In addition to summer tuition and fees, the fellowship awards a summer stipend of $5,500.

The Summer Research Fellowship will pay a stipend of $5,500 for the period from June 1 to August 31, plus summer tuition and health fee. Prior receipt of this competitive Summer Research Fellowships will be taken into consideration during application review.

The Graduate Fellowship Program offers exceptional Latino graduates and young professionals unparalleled exposure to experiences in the underserved public policy areas of health, housing, law, international affairs, and science, technology, engineering and math.

Competitive fellowships supported by the Kress Foundation are awarded to art historians and art conservators in the final stages of their preparation for professional careers.

These grants are awarded to aid doctoral research in anthropology that furthers understanding of humanity’s cultural and biological origins, development, and variation. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield.

Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Fellowships are provided to PhD candidates studying humanities or social sciences disciplines at US institutions who will complete their dissertations during the fellowship year and whose work addresses topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original wa

The Chateaubriand Fellowship is designed for doctoral students enrolled at American universities who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in a French laboratory for a four- to nine-month period.