Department of History

• American Fellowship Program: The fellowship covers tuition  fees and and stipend support (up to a maximum of $50,000 per year) for the first year of study in the Ph.D. program. The fellowship is renewable for a second year, contingent on satisfactory performance.
  
  

• University Fellowships: Five years of stipend support, seven years of tuition support, and health insurance for the duration of the fellowship. Georgetown University Fellowship Awards are awarded annually to several truly distinguished candidates nominated by the department which they are entering. These awards differ from five-year Teaching Assistantship Awards in two ways: the stipend is more generous (approximately $27,000 for 2007-2008); and there is no service component during the first and fifth years of fellowship support.

• Patrick Healy Graduate Fellowship: The Patrick Healy Graduate Fellowship is a competitive award designed to attract and support the most talented students from those groups least represented in the professoriate. Named in honor of Georgetown ’s 28th president, the first African American president of an American university, the Fellowship’s goal is to increase the cultural, ethnic, and economic diversity of persons being prepared for careers as college and university professors. Support will be provided to Patrick Healy Fellows for twelve months per year for up to five years, assuming satisfactory progress toward the Ph.D.
  

• Environmental History Fellowship:  Each year the Georgetown History Departments awardsa full five-year fellowship in environmental history.  Holders of this fellowship may study any part of the world, in any period.  Students interested in this opportunity should apply to one of the eight fields the Department offers and make clear their interest in environmental history in the application.  Students holding this fellowship have no formal service requirements to the Department.  In other respects the terms are the same as with renewable Teaching Assistantships (see below).
  

• Fellowship in the History of the Early Modern World: Starting in 2009, the History Department will occasionally award a five-year fellowship for students interested in early modern history with a global reach. Students holding this fellowship have no formal service requirements to the Department. In other respects the terms are the same as with renewable Department Fellowships/Assistantships (see below). Students interested in applying for this fellowship should contact Professor Alison Games.

• Department Fellowship/Teaching Assistantship :Stipend ($18,580 in 2009-2010) and tuition support (nine credits) for five years, two additional years of tuition support, and health insurance for the duration of the fellowship. Renewable Assistantships are awarded on entry to the program to seven or eight students, and grantees must maintain an A- average (3.67 GPA), avoid incomplete course work, complete degree requirements on time (including passing at least one language exam by the end of their first year of study), and do satisfactory work as teaching assistants to be renewed. Those who meet these criteria are automatically renewed. Students receiving these awards normally serve for three years as Teaching Assistants assigned to work with members of the faculty. Two of the five fellowship years are non-service. All first-year students are exempt from service requirements. A second year without service is guaranteed, with certain requirements, to wit: 1) That second year without service is to come after students have passed their comprehensive exams, and after they have filed a dissertation prospectus with the Graduate School; 2) The second non-service year can be awarded only after students have satisfied their dissertation committees that they have applied for all appropriate outside grants.
  

• Competitive Teaching Assistantships: The department awards some one-year teaching assistantships to continuing, non-fundend students, based on an annual competition. Such grants are not renewable, but those who hold such an assistantship may re-enter the competition in succeeding years.

• Scholarships: The department offers tuition scholarships independently of stipend support to some students; such support is based on an annual competition. These awards are available to students progressing within the seven-year time limit and are dependent on availability of funds.
  

Teaching assistants lead discussion sections in lecture classes, help grade student work, and usually give one lecture each semester. A teaching assistant's work is limited to 15 hours per week; most find that they work about 10-12 hours per week, except during those weeks when they are grading papers or exams.

Competition for aid, due to the limited amount available, is extremely rigorous. The application for admission serves as the application for financial aid and is due December 15, 2010.