Students

Fellowships

University Preemptive Fellowship

These prestigious awards are offered by the Graduate School to attract top-quality graduate students to UT. Graduate advisers have the vital role of identifying and nominating eligible applicants.

Eligibility:

Stipend:
Awards may range from $5,000 to $20,000; awarded for fall and spring semesters.

University Continuing Fellowships

Available to students who are currently enrolled in a UT graduate program. Graduate advisers submit nominations to the Graduate School. Faculty review committees that evaluate the applications emphasize accomplishments since entering Graduate School.

Eligibility:

Stipend:
$16,000 for nine months, $620 suplementary to assist with medical insurance, plus up to $1,800 per long semester in tuition support.

LLILAS Application deadline: January 2
Application (PDF, 699K)

University Tuition Fellowships

Available to students currently enrolled in a UT graduate program. Students nominated for the Continuing Fellowship will be considered for this award.

Eligibility:

Stipend:
$1,800 for each fall and spring semester; this award entitles a student to pay tuition and fees at in-state rates

LLILAS Application deadline: January 2

David Bruton, Jr., Graduate Fellowship

Established by the UT Systems Board of Regents for the benefit of UT-Austin in September 1991. Students nominated for the Continuing Fellowships will be considered for this award. Graduate advisers have the vital role of identifying and nominating eligible students.

Eligibility:
Students may be entering or continuing, and may be candidates for the master's or doctoral degree Two groups of students are eligible:

    1. Students who have been awarded nationally competitive graduate fellowships.
    2. Students nominated for Continuing Fellowships; awards are based on major accomplishments since entering Graduate School, a well-defined program of research, strong personal statement, and letters of recommendation.

Stipend: $1,000

Application deadline: January 2

For information on fellowships that require a University Continuing Fellowship nomination or a separate nomination from the department, please contact the Office of Graduate Studies, MAI 101, 512.471.4511 or go to the Graduate School website.

    1. Cullen Trust Student Endowment Fellowships
    2. Hemphill-Gilmore Fellowships
    3. Houston Endowment President's Excellence Scholarships
    4. A. D. Hutchison Student Endowment Fellowships
    5. William S. Livingston Graduate Fellowships
    6. W. Gordon Whaley Fellowship
    7. Research Internships
    8. Thematic Fellowships Program
    9. Summer Tuition Fellowships

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Graduate Fellowship

To encourage the study of Latin America and to forge closer ties with Latin America.

Eligibility:
A recruitment fellowship for LLILAS graduate students. First preference will be given to applicants from the following counties in South Texas: Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, Brooks, Cameron, Dimminit, Duval, El Paso, Frio, Goliad, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, Kinney, Kleberg, Lasalle, Live Oak, Maverick, mcMullen, Medina, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Starr, Uvalde, Val Verde, Victoria, Webb, Willac, Wilson, Zapata and Zavala.

Stipend:
$12,000 for nine months (Fall and Spring semesters) - plus U.T. tuition and fees.

Application deadline: January 15

Address:
LLILAS Student Services Office
SRH 1.310
1 University Station D0800
Austin, TX 78712-0331
512.471.5551

Debra J. Herring Memorial Fellowship Fund

This fellowship was established by family members in memory of ILAS graduate Debra J. Herring. Recipients in Latin American Studies programs requiring more than two years of coursework are eligible to apply for a second year of support. Available to a full-time second-year graduate student in good standing in the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. The awardee should have the following additional attributes: proficiency in Portuguese and/or Spanish, very high grade point average, financial need, interest in promoting improvement in international relations and in the quality of life in Latin America, special interest in Brazil and demonstrated career interest in working directly with Latin American societies. Preference will be given among equally qualified applicants, to students with demonstrated life experience with African-American communities and cultures, and with interest in Brazilian cultures. Applications (PDF File) are available on the Web.

Stipend:
$5,000 plus out-of-state tuition waiver

Application deadline: February 22
Application (PDF, 56K)

Anna Mae Ford Memorial Fund

Established by family members to honor Ms. Ford's lifelong commitment to Latin American culture, language, and history and to educational opportunity. Applications are available on the Web or in SRH 1.310.

Eligibility:
ILAS M.A. students entering their third or fourth semester of study.

Stipend:
$1,200 to be disbursed over two semesters, plus out-of-state tuition waiver

Application deadline: February 22
Application (PDF, 23K)

Evan Frankel Graduate Fellowship

Eligibility:
A recruitment fellowship for an Institute of Latin American Studies student whose area of research and interests are in the humanities.

Stipend:
$ 9,000.

Application should be sent to:
LLILAS Student Services Office
SRH 1.310
1 University Station D0800
Austin, TX 78712-0331
512.471.5551

Application deadline: January 15

FIPSE-CAPES Exchange Programs to Brazil, Various Fields, Competitive Fellowships

The US-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program is run cooperatively by the governments of the United States and Brazil. The purpose of this program is to promote student-centered cooperation between the United States and Brazil to increase cross-national education and training opportunities in a wide range of academic and professional disciplines. At UT, the US-Brazil Program funds four study abroad programs in Brazil that offer students the opportunity to study a broad range of subjects at nine Brazilian universities. Students benefit because of the additional support, orientation and academic advising offered by the project coordinators at each host university, and by the Brazil Center at UT. They also offer competitive scholarships of up to $4,000 to support one semeter's exchange.

The US-Brazil Program is administrated jointly by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education, and the Fundação Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES), Brazilian Ministry of Education.

More information

Republic of Mexico Solidaridad Endowed Presidential Scholarship

For information, contact the Mexican Center.

E.D. Farmer Fellowship

More information is available from the Mexican Center.

The Mellon Fellowship in Sociology

The Mellon Fellowships in Latin American Sociology is a program administered through the sociology departments at three U.S. universities: the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles. This program provides fellowships to Ph.D. students in Sociology specializing in Latin America. While the individual programs at each university are different, the overall goal is to provide support for promising graduate students committed to a career in teaching and research in Latin American sociology.

Applications and further information:
Department of Sociology
Burdine Hall 336
University of Texas
Austin, Texas 78712-1088
512.471.1122