Graduate Student Support
ISLA provides funding and services to graduate students in the College of Arts and Letters to enhance their development as scholars, researchers, and future faculty.
Internal Funding Opportunities
The Graduate Student Professional Development Awards and the Graduate Student Research Awards offer support for conference participation (and other professional development opportunities) and research needs respectively.
ISLA provides Conference Funding Grants each year to support conferences conceived and organized by graduate students.
Identifying and Applying for External Funding
ISLA can assist graduate students in the College of Arts and Letters in finding and applying for external funding. ISLA’s Advisor for Graduate Student Professionalization and Research, Dianne Phillips, is available to meet with students to help them identify appropriate fellowship and grant opportunities and work with them to develop a successful application. She also provides informational presentations on various funding opportunities and effective proposal and grant writing strategies for graduate students in the departments and programs in the College of Arts and Letters.
Professionalization Opportunities
The Mellon–ISLA Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshops program cultivates graduate student interest in interdisciplinary exchange and provides opportunities for students to conceive and coordinate year-long workshop series.
For further information on ISLA's funding and services for graduate students, please contact Dianne Phillips, (574) 631-3441, 244 O'Shaughnessy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
