Departments, centers, and programs within the School of Humanities offer a range of competitive fellowships for undergraduates and graduates. Many are intended to help students with special research projects and/or research travel in the U.S. and abroad. Please contact your major department for a complete list of fellowships, deadlines, and application procedures. Each department has its own criteria.
Our departments, centers, and programs may also give awards and prizes to distinguished students. Most of these depend on faculty nomination, but some permit students to apply.
Finally, these units may choose to fund special events organized by students, such as a guest speaker or conference. Such awarded funds, as well as the organizational responsibilities, are a distinction for the student organizer(s).
The table below shows the fellowships, awards, prizes, and other funding offered in the School of Humanities.
- Mary Elllen Hale Lovett Traveling Fellowship (HART)
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Department of Art History
Eligible: Art History majors, undergraduates, graduates
Initiated: Application
Amount: $1,000-$5,000 (amount varies)
- William A. Camfield Fellowship
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Department of Art History
Eligible: Art History majors, undergraduates
Initiated: Application
Amount: $10,000
- Jameson Fellowship for American Decorative Arts
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Department of Art History
Eligible: All Rice undergraduate and graduate students
Initiated: Application
Amount: $13,000
- Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication Scholarship
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Center for Languages and Intercultural Communications
Eligible: All Rice students
Initiated: Application
Amount: Up to $6,000
- Gabriel Baizån Fellowship for Study in Spain
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Center for Languages and Intercultural Communications
Eligible: All Rice Students
Initiated: Application
Amount: $4,500
- Advanced Undergraduate Research Award (AURA)
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Chao Center for Asian Studies
Eligible: Asian Studies majors, not in their final semester
Initiated: Application
Amount: $700-$1,000
- Clyde Ferguson Bull Traveling Fellowship
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Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures
Eligible: French Studies students, majors and non-majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: $7,500-$15,000
- Roy Jones Fellowships
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Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures
Eligible: German Studies students, majors, and non-majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: Varies
- Max Freund Prize
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Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures
Eligible: Senior German Studies majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: Varies
- Classical and European Studies Summer Research Travel Funding
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Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures
Eligible: Classical Studies majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: Varies
- Minter Summer Scholar Program
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Department of English
Eligible: Except in rare circumstances, recipients must be English majors.
Initiated: Application
Amount: $700-$3,000
- Lady Geddes Essay Writing Prize
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Department of English
Eligible: English students, majors, and non-majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: $500-$1,000
- Charles Garside, Jr., Prize in History
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Department of History
Eligible: History majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: $1,500-$7,000
- Ira and Patricia Gruber Fund for Undergraduate Research
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Department of History
Eligible: History majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: Varies
- Distinction in Research and Creative Work
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School of Humanities
Eligible: All Rice undergraduates
Initiated: Application
Amount: N/A
- Desirée and Max Blankfeld Endowed Fund for Jewish Studies
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Jewish Studies Program
Eligible: Jewish Studies students
Initiated: Application
Amount: Varies
- Tsanoff Prize
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Department of Philosophy
Eligible: Returning Philosophy undergraduates
Initiated: Application
Amount: $4,000
- Philosophy Conference Funding
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Department of Philosophy
Eligible: Undergraduate Philosophy majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: Varies
- Ruth Lee Kennedy Fellowship
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Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Cultures
Eligible: SPLAS students
Initiated: Application
Amount: VAries
- Mary Ellen Hale Lovett Traveling Fellowship (VADA)
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Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts
Eligible: VADA majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: $1,500-$5,000
- Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition Fellowship
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Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts
Eligible: VADA majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: Up to $1,300 (amount varies)
- Eleanor and Frank Freed Traveling Fellowship
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Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts
Eligible: VADA majors
Initiated: Application
Amount: Up to $1,200 (amount varies)