Fellowships

Fellowship Application Information

  1. Your application must be complete at the time of submission (i.e., ALL materials, including letters, must be submitted by the specified deadline).

  2.  For all of the fellowships, all of your materials will be submitted directly to GSAS through CARATwith the exception of a separate PDF of your two draft chapters for the DCF, to be submitted to the department only(See details below.)

  3. Please be sure to give your recommenders plenty of time to prepare the letters before the deadline.

  4. Recommenders will upload their letters directly into CARAT; if they have difficulty with the uploading process, they should be in touch with the Graduate Program Assistant.

  5. When applying for internal Harvard fellowships, students do not need to submit an official transcript from the Registrar’s Office. Instead, they may submit a copy of their grade report available online from http://my.harvard.edu. From Student Home, navigate to the Grades tab. Click View Unofficial Transcripts. IF transcripts are requested from previous graduate programs, the Fellowships Office asks that you please scan/photograph copies of your [PREVIOUS GRAD PROGRAM] transcripts to include in your application. They do need transcripts from all graduate programs.

  6. Note: G1 students may submit their grade reports when they become available, which might be after the fellowship deadline. When submitting after the application deadline, do so directly to the GSAS Fellowships Office, rather than to the department.

 

Graduate Society Fellowships/Term Time Awards for Dissertation Research, Harvard Merit Fellowships

Fellowship Description and Application Instructions from GSAS
Deadline for submission to the department: 5:00 PM on Thursday, November 16, 2023

  • ALL materials (including letters of recommendation) must be submitted directly to GSAS via CARAT by the November 16th departmental deadline.
  • Students wishing to be considered for departmental (e.g., Dexter) term-time fellowships must apply for the GSAS term-time awards. The department will select recipients from among those candidates who were nominated for, but did not receive, a GSAS term-time fellowship.
  • Please note: the department requires that term-time applicants have an approved prospectus on file by the time of application.

CARAT online application login

 

Harvard Research and Travel Fellowships

Fellowship Description and Application Instructions from GSAS
Deadline for submission to the department: 5:00 PM on Thursday, November 16, 2023

  • ALL materials (including letters of recommendation) must be submitted directly to GSAS via CARAT by the November 16th departmental deadline.

CARAT online application login

 

 

GSAS Summer School Tuition Waiver Fellowships

Fellowship Description and Application Instructions from GSAS
Deadline for submission to GSAS: 12:00 PM on Monday, March 4, 2024

  • ALL materials must be submitted directly to GSAS via CARAT by the March 4th deadline.

CARAT online application login

 

Graduate Society Predissertation Summer Fellowships

Fellowship Description and Application Instructions from GSAS
Deadline for submission to the department:  5:00 PM on Thursday, February 1, 2024

  • ALL materials (including the faculty signature form) must be submitted directly to GSAS via CARAT by the February 1st departmental deadline.

CARAT online application login

 

Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Fellowship Description and Application Instructions from GSAS
Deadline for submission of Chapters PDF to the dept.: 5:00 PM on Thursday, February 1, 2024
Deadline for submission of application to GSAS:  11:59 PM on Friday, February 9, 2024

  • Please submit to the Graduate Program Assistant (via email) your two draft chapters in a single PDF by the departmental deadline of February 1, 2024 deadline.
  • Please label your PDF as “(YOUR NAME)_DCF_DISSERTATION CHAPTERS”
  • ALL materials (except the departmental Chapters PDF) must be submitted directly to GSAS via CARAT by the deadline of February 9, 2024.
  • Please also note: Mahindra Humanities Center Mellon Interdisciplinary Completion Fellowships

FACULTY CONFIRMATION FORM

CARAT online application login

 

 

Questions?

The Fellowships Office and the Center for Writing and Communicating Ideas have merged to form the Fellowships & Writing Center. Students with questions about finding fellowship support should email gsas-fellowships@fas.harvard.edu, while students looking for help with writing a fellowship proposal should visit the Fellowships & Writing Center.  In addition, the Fellowships & Writing Center provides feedback on fellowship essays by submitting them to this intake form. Samples of winning fellowship proposals and further advice on proposal writing are available in a publication,  Scholarly Pursuits,  available at the GSAS Fellowships & Writing Center website.