Funding
All Religious Studies Ph.D. students receive five years of funding. This includes fellowship stipends or teaching assistantships, tuition, and Cardinal Care health insurance for the student. In addition, Ph.D. students receive five funded summers of support.
We do not offer funding for coterminal or Masters students.
Beyond the five years of funding, below is a list of resources for PhD students to find grants or scholarships to finish writing the dissertation. Application deadlines can be as early as the fall before, so please plan in advance to apply. Internal Stanford grants are only available to Stanford students; external grants can be from outside donors or open to students beyond Stanford. Please note that this list is not exhaustive, and we encourage research into other funding opportunities.
Stanford (internal) Funding Opportunities
| Funding Opportunity | full year funding | travel, conference, research, other grants |
|---|---|---|
| Abbasi Program research fellowships | x | |
| Buddhist Studies | x | |
| CCSRE Graduate Dissertation Fellowship | x | |
| CCSRE Graduate Fellowship (for incoming students) | x | |
| CCSRE Graduate Teaching Fellowship | x | |
| CESTA Digital Humanities Graduate Fellowship | ||
| CSA Conference Travel grants | x | |
| CSA Research & Language Fellowships (South Asia related study) | x | |
| CSA Wisch Dissertation Fellowship (South Asia related study) | x | |
| DARE Doctoral Fellowship | x | |
| Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity (DDRO) | x | |
| EDGE Doctoral Fellowship | x | |
| H&S graduate fellowships and awards | x | |
| Haas Center Community-Based Research Programs | x | |
| Humanities Center fellowships | x | |
| Other Stanford Fellowships | x | |
| Public Knowledge Fellowships | x | |
| VPGE fellowships | x |