Fellowships & Scholarships

The Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) graduate student fellowship program supports students working on a broad range of research topics and projects, advances the work of the IHRC, and involves graduate fellows in the work of the Immigration History Research Center Archives (IHRCA).

Benefits 

Academic year fellowships are 50% appointments and provide a stipend of $11,000 for one semester, full tuition support for up to 14 graduate credits during the semester, and subsidized health insurance through the Graduate Assistant Health Plan. In addition to a stipend and fees allowance, a cubicle for the duration of the fellowship period may be supplied by the Immigration History Research Center in Andersen Library if space is available.

Summer fellowships include a $6000 stipend plus subsidized health insurance through the Graduate Assistant Health Plan. A cubicle for the duration of the fellowship period may be supplied by the Immigration History Research Center in Andersen Library if space is available.

Eligibility  

To be considered for IHRC fellowships, candidates must:

• be admitted to, or currently enrolled in, a Masters or PhD degree program at the University of Minnesota;

• have research interests related to the history of migration, race, and ethnicity in the US, including refugee resettlement, law and politics, ethnic organizations, identity, arts, folklore, gender, journalism, and literature;

• meet additional requirements for specific fellowships

Please contact Michele Waslin (mwaslin@umn.edu) to discuss eligibility if your research is broadly related to IHRC areas of interest but you are uncertain about its fit for a specific fellowship.

Summer and Academic Year Graduate Fellowships

• IHRC Summer Graduate Fellowship 

• Hildegard and Gustav Must Graduate Fellowship in Estonian American Studies

• Graduate Fellowship in Finnish American Studies

• American Latvian Association Graduate Fellowship in Latvian American Studies

• Italian American Immigration Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship

• Francis Maria Fellowship in Arab American Studies). 

You may also be interested in learning more by reading about previous fellows.