The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, a center for advanced scholarship relating to the period from c. 1450 to c. 1850, offers fellowship competitions and research funds for USC Ph.D. students.
2025-2026 Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowships Competition
The Institute will offer up to two fellowships for the 2025-2026 academic year to Ph.D. candidates within the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences whose work relates to the period from c. 1450 to c. 1850. These fellowships will provide a stipend at the rate set by the USC graduate school and cover tuition and fees.
The fellowships are open to graduate students within the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, who will be ABD before August 1, 2025. Applicants should be in their third, fourth, fifth, or sixth year of their graduate program during the 2025-2026 academic year. Applicants may not be in year seven or beyond during the fellowship term.
Applicants should submit a single pdf file with a research statement, not exceeding three single-spaced pages, and a c.v. to emsi@dornsife.usc.edu by January 31, 2025. The research statement should include the dissertation title, the student date of entry into the graduate program, the date of the qualifying exams, and the expected date of degree completion.
A letter of recommendation should be emailed separately from the dissertation advisor to emsi@dornsife.usc.edu by January 31, 2025.
