The History Department will fund research travel for PhD students with two types of awards to be disbursed between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025. Funds will be dispursed to students in one lump sum on or after July 1st.
History Research Travel Grants (HRTGs) will be available both to pre-candidacy students (maximum award $2,000) and post-candidacy students (maximum award $3,000). For the latter, students must have defended the prospectus and advanced to candidacy by the time they take up the grant funding (not necessarily at the time of application).
Applications are due by March 31 and awards will be announced in April. The grants will be distributed on a competitive basis. Priority will be given to those students who do not have access to other sources of funding, whether external or internal to Yale (such as RITM or MacMillan). Applications from all fields will be considered. Applications will be evaluated by the Graduate Advisory Committee and in consultation with the Chair. In any given instance, the committee may fund only part of the request.
On completion of your research travel and before May 31, 2025, you are required to submit to the DGS and department registrar a one-page report on the research completed with the use of this award.
All travel must adhere to the University’s guidelines on travel during the pandemic, which may change over the funding period. See this site for further details: https://covid19.yale.edu/travel-policy.