PhD Funding

The department provides limited funds to PhD students to present at conferences in their field. At the beginning of each academic year, the Director of Graduate Studies and/or the Department Administrator will announce the amount available for conference travel for that year and the deadline for budget proposals.

Reimbursement is limited to transportation costs (airfare, rental cars, airline fees), conference registration fees (including membership fees), and accommodation costs.

Reimbursements will not be done on a rolling basis, though every attempt will be made to reimburse students in a timely manner.

If you have any questions about department funding, please do not hesitate to contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Andrew Robichaud, or the Administrative Manager, Cady Steinberg, at cady8590@bu.edu.

The Graduate School offers Graduate Research Abroad Fellowships (GRAF) that fund dissertation research, as does the Boston University Center for the Humanities (BUCH). In both cases, History graduate students must apply first to the Director of Graduate Studies, who will review applications with the Graduate Studies Committee.

There are many opportunities for external research funding beyond those offered at BU.

The General Society of Colonial Wars funds a fellowship, named the General Society of Colonial Wars John Adams Grant for Studies in American Colonial History, for doctoral students working in the period of American history between the founding of Jamestown and the Battle of Lexington. For more information on this fellowship, click here.

For more information about funding opportunities, click here. While this is not a comprehensive list of graduate funding opportunities, it is a good place to start, particularly for pre-dissertation and dissertation research funding.