Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students
Our department offers several types of funding for incoming students, including the Zora Neale Hurston Fellowship for students whose areas of research or career goals are inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s studies of the African Diaspora. In addition, all students offered admission are considered for our three-year Grinter Fellowship, which is a smaller award and does not provide a tuition waiver. No application is necessary for these awards; once we have made our admissions decisions, all students offered admission will be reviewed for their eligibility for these awards.
Many of our students serve on departmental assistantships. For more information, see our assistantship page.
The Department offers several scholarships to current graduate students each year.
Other departments sometimes employ Anthropology students as teaching assistants. Anthropology students have received teaching assistantships through the foreign languages, biology, athletic tutoring, academic writing, and housing departments. Please contact the appropriate department directly for more information on these opportunities or you may contact the Graduate Program Assistant.
Opportunities outside of the Anthropology Department
Graduate students in the Department have also been funded from the following UF offices and programs:
FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowships are available for students with interests in Africa, or some areas of Latin America and the Caribbean. For students with research interests in Africa, the Center for African Studies offers the FLAS fellowships, and Anthropology students are eligible. For information, go here. For students with interest in Latin America or the Caribbean, the Center for Latin American studies also offers funding through the FLAS program. For more information, go here.
The Tropical Conservation and Development Program (TCD) offers fellowships to Anthropology graduate students interested in biological conservation and rural development issues in Latin America and elsewhere in the tropics. For more information go here.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers the O. Ruth McQuown Scholarship to outstanding female students. For more information on this scholarship, go here, or contact the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
- International Funding Sources for the Social Sciences
- National Funding Sources for the Social Sciences
UF Financial Aid Office
The University of Florida’s Office of Student Financial Affairs offers Federal loans to all qualified graduate students. For more information go here. This site offers information on additional sources of funding as well as a link to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). You will need to fill out a FAFSA for any Federal loans through UF. The Financial Aid Office also uses the FAFSA form to assess graduate students’ eligibility for small need-based grants ($2,000/year). These grant funds are awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis and are limited. To be considered for these grant funds, you should submit your FAFSA form as soon as possible after January 1 for the following academic year.
Financial Aid and Funding Bulletin Boards
- Center for the Humanities & the Public Sphere Call for Proposals page
- Center for the Humanities & the Public Sphere funding opportunities for graduate students
- CLAS Funding Sources webpage
- Graduate School Financial Aid Bulletin Board website.
- Graduate School Financial Aid Bulletin Board - Diveristy.
- International Center's Financial Aid Bulletin Board website.
- Libraries’ Grants Management Office Funding website.
- American Anthropological Association Fellowships & Support Bulletin Board
