Fellowships

Source: https://english.fas.harvard.edu/fellowships Parent: https://english.fas.harvard.edu/undergraduate

Fellowship Application Information

Your application must be complete at the time of submission (i.e., ALL materials, including letters, must be submitted by the specified deadline).
For all of the fellowships, all of your materials will be submitted directly to GSAS through CARAT,with the exception of a separate PDF of your two draft chapters for the DCF, to be submitted to the department only.(See details below.)
Please be sure to give your recommenders plenty of time to prepare the letters before the deadline.
Recommenders will upload their letters directly into CARAT; if they have difficulty with the uploading process, they should be in touch with the Graduate Program Assistant.
When applying for internal Harvard fellowships, students do not need to submit an official transcript from the Registrar’s Office. Instead, they may submit a copy of their grade report available online from http://my.harvard.edu. From Student Home, navigate to the Gradestab. Click View Unofficial Transcripts. IF transcripts are requested from previous graduate programs, the Fellowships Office asks that you please scan/photograph copies of your [PREVIOUS GRAD PROGRAM] transcripts to include in your application. They do need transcripts from all graduate programs.
Note: G1 students may submit their grade reports when they become available, which might be after the fellowship deadline. When submitting after the application deadline, do so directly to the GSAS Fellowships Office, rather than to the department.

Graduate Society Fellowships/Term Time Awards for Dissertation Research, Harvard Merit Fellowships

Fellowship Description and Application Instructions from GSAS\ Deadline for submission to the department: 5:00 PM on Monday, November 17, 2025

Students who are recipients of Presidential funding are not allowed to apply for the Merit during their graduate career at Harvard.

ALL materials (including the letter of recommendation) must be submitted directly to GSAS via CARAT by theNovember 17th departmental deadline.
Students wishing to be considered for departmental (e.g., Dexter) term-time fellowships must apply for the GSAS term-time awards. The department will select recipients from among those candidates who were nominated for, but did not receive, a GSAS term-time fellowship. No additional application materials are required.
Please note: the department requires that term-time applicants have an approved prospectus on file by the time of application.

Harvard Research and Travel Fellowships

Fellowship Description and Application Instructions from GSAS\ Deadline for submission to the department: 5:00 PM on Monday, November 17, 2025

ALL materials (including letters of recommendation) must be submitted directly to GSAS via CARAT by theNovember 17th departmental deadline.

CARAT online application login

Dissertation Completion Fellowships

Fellowship Description and Application Instructions from GSAS\ Deadline for submission of Chapters PDF to the dept.:5:00 PM on Monday, February 2, 2026\ Deadline for submission of application to GSAS: 11:59 PM on Friday, February 13, 2026

Please submit to the Graduate Program Assistant (at sbalakrishnan@fas.harvard.edu) your two draft chapters in a single PDF (with each chapter clearly marked) by the departmental deadline of February 2, 2026 deadline.
Please label your PDF as “(YOUR LAST NAME)_DCF_DISSERTATION CHAPTERS”
ALL materials (except the departmental Chapters PDF) must be submitted directly to GSAS via CARAT by the deadline of February 13, 2026.
Please also note: Mahindra Humanities Center Mellon Interdisciplinary Completion Fellowships

FACULTY CONFIRMATION FORM

CARAT online application login

Graduate Society Predissertation Summer Fellowships

Fellowship Description and Application Instructions from GSAS\ Deadline for submission to the department: 5:00 PM on Wednesday, February 18, 2026

ALL materials (including the faculty signature form) must be submitted directly to GSAS via CARAT by the February 18th departmental deadline.

CARAT online application login

GSAS Summer School Tuition Waiver Fellowships

Fellowship Description and Application Instructions from GSAS\ Deadline for submission to GSAS: 12:00 PM on Thursday, March 5, 2026

ALL materials must be submitted directly to GSAS via CARAT by theMarch 5th deadline.
Also see:Jens Aubrey Westengard Fund for Summer Language Study. Applications for this funding should be sent directly to GSAS. Deadline: TBD

CARAT online application login

Questions?

Students with questions about finding fellowship support should email gsas-fellowships@fas.harvard.edu, while students looking for help with writing a fellowship proposal should visit the Fellowships & Writing Center. In addition, the Fellowships & Writing Center provides feedback on fellowship essays by submitting them to this intake form and holds workshops on the Merit/Beeuwkes and Traveling fellowships in early October (see our newsletter, On Grants and Prose,for more details). Samples of winning fellowship proposals and further advice on proposal writing are available in a publication, Scholarly Pursuits, available on the GSAS Fellowships & Writing Center website.