The Center for African & African American Studies offers award, fellowship, and scholarship opportunities for faculty and graduate students conducting research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and/or African diaspora studies.
Graduate Student Award and Fellowship Funding Opportunities聽
- The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Fellowship Program:聽The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Fellowship Program (aka the 鈥淐AAAS Grad Fellows Program鈥�) provides support and scholarly community for 麻豆影院 graduate students conducting research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and African diaspora studies. CAAAS Grad Fellows receive a stipend and are eligible for CAAAS Grad Student Awards, the CAAAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, the CAAAS's Alice Cleora Reeves Dissertation Award, and the CAAAS鈥檚 Jessica Bertram Womanist Innovation Award. CAAAS Grad Student Fellows participate in, and contribute to, several interdisciplinary and intersectional research 鈥淟unch & Learn鈥� events (at least two each semester) co-sponsored by the Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS) and CU Libraries.聽Currently only grad students who have received CAAAS Grad Student Summer Fellowships are eligible for the CAAAS Grad Fellows Program. For more information on the CAAAS Grad Student Summer Fellowship Program,聽see here.
- The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Summer Fellowships: The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Summer聽Fellowships (aka the 鈥淐AAAS Grad Student Summer Fellowships鈥�) are for University of聽Colorado 麻豆影院 graduate students conducting research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and African diaspora studies who do not already聽receive university-sponsored or external funding (in any amount) during the summer聽months. The $6,000 stipend will be paid out in $2,000 payments in June, July, and聽August. All CU 麻豆影院 graduate students with demonstrable research and creative work聽in African studies, African American studies, and/or African diaspora studies are eligible聽to apply.
- The Center for African & African American Studies聽Graduate Student Research & Creative Work Awards:听The purpose of the CAAAS Graduate Student Research & Creative Work Awards (aka聽鈥淐AAAS Grad Student Awards鈥�) are to assist 麻豆影院 graduate students with their research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and African diaspora studies. CAAAS Grad Student Awards provide modest funding for a variety of projects. For example, CAAAS Grad Student Awards can be used for research materials, creative work assistance, travel for research and creative work purposes, conference presentations, exhibitions, performances, etc. Partial funding is possible, and most awards are between $750 and $1500.
- The Center for African and African American Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship: The Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS) Dissertation Completion Fellowship provides one semester of full funding during either the Fall or Spring semester. Support will consist of a stipend equal to a 50% GPTI appointment paid out in monthly increments. Up to five dissertation hours of tuition, mandatory fees, and coverage under the student gold health plan are also included. All CU 麻豆影院 doctoral students with demonstrable research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and/or African diaspora studies are eligible to apply.
- The Center for African and African American Studies鈥� Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Award:聽The Center for African & African American Studies鈥� Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Award is for doctoral candidates from any campus-wide program, department, or college who are active participants in the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) at the 麻豆影院. Expenditures from the Reeves Dissertation Award can be used for, but are not limited to, stipends, support for research, creative work, and other activities that support students鈥� doctoral dissertation development, and other costs related to students鈥� dissertation completion.
- Jessica Bertram Womanist Innovation and Pioneer Award:听This award is established in 2024 by S. N. Nyeck, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Economy and Africana Studies at CU Bouler in honor of Jessica Bertram from the Department of Dance at CU 麻豆影院 for her womanist MFA thesis and performance entitled聽"Homecoming: Returning to Love (Of the Self and Of the Folk).
