Graduate Student Scholarships
Graduate Scholarships
LeRoy H. Fischer Graduate Student Research Paper Award
The recipient must be enrolled as a full-time graduate student in the Department of History. The award will recognize the best paper in any area of history written for a history course taken at OSU during the spring, summer, or fall semester.
LeRoy H. Fischer Scholarship in History
The recipient must be enrolled as a full-time graduate student in the Department of History. Preference will be given to applicants whose main focus of study is Oklahoma or Civil War history.
History Department Graduate Research Paper Award
The recipient must be enrolled as a full-time graduate student in the Department of History. The award will recognize the best paper in any area of history written for a course taken at OSU during the spring, summer, or fall semester.
Department of History Graduate Research Fellowship
To be eligible, Ph.D. students must have completed comprehensive examinations by the time of application and have begun work on their dissertation. M.A. students must be working on their thesis, internship or report.
Homer L. Knight Graduate Award
Graduate students in history who have a 3.5 overall GPA in their graduate coursework at OSU are eligible to apply.
Berlin B. Chapman Endowed Scholarship
Awards will be given to full-time undergraduate or graduate students who are working toward a degree in history at OSU. Preference will be given to applicants whose main focus of study is Oklahoma history.
O.A. Hilton Memorial Scholarship Supported by the Raymond Estep History Scholarship Fund
This award will be given to an Oklahoma-born, full-time student at OSU working on a graduate degree in history. Preference will be given to candidates whose emphasis of study is in one of the following areas: American Economic history, Oklahoma history, Native American history (as it pertains to Oklahoma), Western Frontier in American history, Latin American history, history of the U.S. Southwest.
Dr. Watt Steward Doctoral Fellowship
This award is for a full-time student at OSU working on a doctoral degree in history. Preference will be given to candidates born in Oklahoma whose emphasis of study is in one of the following areas: American Economic history, Oklahoma history, Native American history (as it pertains to Oklahoma), Western Frontier in American history, Latin American history, history of the U.S. Southwest.
Townsend/Minnie DeWitt Scholarship
The purpose of this scholarship is to recognize achievement by historically underrepresented students in the study of history at OSU. Applicants who plan to teach American history in some fashion during their professional years.
Townsend Memorial Award for Outstanding Graduate Papers in American History Prior to 1914
The paper must use both primary and secondary sources and have been written by a graduate student in history for a history course. Applicants who intend to pursue a career teaching American history will be preferred.
Townsend Dissertation Fellowship
To qualify for this fellowship, a student must (1) be ABD (all but dissertation), and (2) be working on a dissertation on American history prior to 1915. Applicants who intend to pursue a teaching career in American history will be preferred.
Mahnken Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Public History
This fellowship is designed to provide financial assistance to students completing an internship as required for the Public History option for the M.A. (Plan II) and the public history field in the Ph.D. program. Recipients must be enrolled either in the public history M.A. option or be a Ph.D. student with a field in Public History; they should have a GPA of at least 3.0 and no more than nine hours of incomplete coursework. All other factors being equal, preference will be given to students having the fewest incompletes.
Gary Younger Research Paper Award
The recipient of this award, created to honor the memory of Gary Younger, will be awarded to the best paper written by a full-time graduate student in the department of history at OSU. Preference will be given to papers on American history after World War I. The paper must use both primary and secondary sources and use the Chicago Manual of Style.