1. Students with assistanships recieve full tuition remission and a stipend for five years of Ph.D. work.
2. In their first two years of funding, the students spend:
- 14-18 hourse per week assisting two faculty in research and/or teaching assistance; students assisting distinguished professor and named chairs may work for only one faculty member.
- In their third and fourth semesters, students spend time with a faculty teaching mentor, sometimes in addition to, sometimes in lieu of, other duties to develop a syllabus with the mentor for their fifth semester's work.
3. In their third, fourth and fifth years of funding, unless they recieve a Research Fellowship (RF), Senior Teaching Fellowship (STF), or Alumni Dissertation Fellowship (ADF), the students:
- teach one Core section each semester, normally a regular course with 35 students, either "Faith and Critical Reasoning" or one of the "Sacred Texts and Traditions" courses
- aid a designated faculty member with research assistance or aid the office with administrative assistance for three hours per week.
4. In their third, fourth, and fifth years of funding, students also have the option of applying for one of several university-wide fellowships available to graduate students through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS):
- GSAS Research Fellowship - The RF is, ideally, the first of the substantial financial awards an excellent doctoral student would receive. The fellowship provides support for students who wish to work closely with faculty mentors to develop their own dissertation research projects or to learn methods or procedures that they will use on their own dissertation research. The grant is awarded on a competitive basis and will reward students who have presented papers at conferences, published articles or book reviews, and submitted proposals for external fellowships. Click here for more details on this award.
- Senior Teaching Fellowship - The STF is, ideally, the second of these awards a doctoral candidate might receive. The award is designed for the student who has already completed a teaching fellowship within his or her department and has demonstrated effective teaching skills. The student’s application must include evidence of this effectiveness as provided by teaching evaluations (SEEQ) and a letter from his or her teaching mentor. Click here for more details on this award.
- Alumni Dissertation Fellowship - The ADF is, ideally, the third and final award an excellent doctoral candidate would receive. The student may apply for this award only after the department has accepted the proposal and the dean has approved the dissertation title and committee. The fellowship allows the student to devote full-time work to the dissertation and is meant to enable him or her to complete it during the fellowship year. Click here for more details on this award.
5. Additionally, through GSAS, graduate students can apply for a Summer fellowship:
- GSAS Summer Fellowship - The SF provides support to students who wish to devote the summer to work on proposals to apply for prestigious fellowships. In disseminating these awards, the highest priority will be given to summer projects designed to prepare a student to apply for prestigious fellowships, and to improve a student’s professional credentials (beyond the normal expectation of the program). Recipients of the fellowship are required to present papers at the annual GSAS Student Research Weekend. Any doctoral or masters student may apply, regardless of whether he or she has been nominated for one of the larger awards. Click here for more details on this award.
For additional information, please visit GSAS Financial Aid
website or contact the Theology Department at
theology@fordham.edu.
