Fellowships

There are additional funding packages for Humanities PhD students in the sixth year and beyond, including both Department- and Division-awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowships. Departmental PhD students have a very good track record in securing an additional year of funding through these fellowship competitions.

Department of Philosophy PhD students—and University of Chicago PhD students in general—also have a very good track record in obtaining external dissertation-phase fellowships. This is true not only because our students are indeed talented but also because the University’s UChicagoGRAD office offers great support to students applying for these fellowships. Students can work one-on-one with UChicagoGRAD’s fellowship specialists to revise their applications and tailor them to specific fellowships. And UChicagoGRAD has an updated database where Philosophy students can find fellowships of interest.