Funding Resources
Travel Funds
Students who wish to present a paper at a professional meeting within the United States may submit a travel request to the Graduate School. To qualify for reimbursement, the student must:
- have been admitted to the Doctoral program
- possess a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 and have no incompletes, based on at least two years of full-time study at UGA.
- be properly registered during the semester in which the travel is scheduled
- have requested travel reimbursement for only one trip during the fiscal year (July 1-June 30)
All travel requests must be approved prior to the date of travel. The Graduate Coordinator sends applications to the Graduate School as a group, in accordance with these deadlines:
Season of Travel Travel Dates Deadline for Application
Fall 10/1 - 12/31 September 15
Winter 1/1 - 3/31 December 15
Spring 4/1 - 6/14 March 15
Summer 6/16 - 9/30 June 1
Obtain the necessary Request for Authority to Travel form from the Departmental secretary. Each request, submitted to the Graduate Coordinator, must be accompanied by an abstract of the research to be presented and by written evidence that the student's paper has been accepted for presentation. Travel money is occasionally provided by the Department. Students should submit their requests along with an abstract and evidence of the paper's acceptance to the Graduate Coordinator. The deadlines are the same as those for graduate school-funded travel. Priority for funding is as follows: (1) sole author of research paper; (2) authorship of research paper with a faculty member; (3) second presentation of academic year, with the first having been funded.
Graduate School
Dissertation Completion Assistantships (Nomination deadline: Friday, March 10, 2006, 5:00 P.M.) Doctoral Research Assistantships are awarded each year on a competitive basis following a highly qualified student's nomination by their major department or school. Each nominee is evaluated by a faculty panel. The Doctoral Research Assistantships are available to doctoral students in their final year of study. These assistantships allow the student to devote time to the completion of their dissertation. At the completion of the assistantship award, the student is expected to have finished the dissertation and graduated.
The assistantship stipend for 2005-2006 is $15,000 to be paid over a ten-month period. Students holding this assistantship pay a matriculation fee of $25 per semester and an activity fee of $435 per semester. The total award, including a waiver of tuition, is equivalent to that discussed above in the Graduate School Assistantship section. Contact your departmental graduate coordinator for more information about the Doctoral Research Assistantship. The combination of the Graduate School Assistantship and departmental supplement cannot exceed 20 hours of work per week.
Phelps-Stokes Graduate Fellowship (Nomination deadline: 5:00 P.M., Friday, April 8, 2005) The holder of this fellowship must pursue studies in one of the following departments: economics, education, history, political science, social work, or sociology. The recipient must make a scientific study of the role of blacks in American civilization. The value of this scholarship is $5,000 a year. Application should be made to the student's major department in the university.
