Awards & Grants
Awards and Grants
Departmental
Throughout the year, calls for applications will be sent out to eligible students in the Department of Anthropology. Additional scholarships, awards, and funding opportunities for graduate students can be found on the Graduate School website, linked below.
Simon Beckett Student Paper Prize
The Simon Beckett Student Paper Prize awards $1,000 for the best paper (podium or poster) at an Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. The presentation must be submitted to the Forensic Anthropology Center (FAC) one month before the meeting. The FAC faculty will judge the papers and the award will be announced shortly after the annual meeting. Open to all graduate students in the Department of Anthropology.
Kneberg/Lewis Scholarship
The Kneberg/Lewis Scholarships consist of two $1,500 scholarships to anthropology doctoral candidates to defray expenses during the dissertation write-up period, including costs incurred by research and travel. Open to all PhD Candidates in the Department of Anthropology.
Applications are due on February 15 each year.
William M. Bass Endowment Fund
The William M. Bass Endowment Fund disburses funds to forensic anthropology graduate students. Funds may be used to defray research expenses, especially thesis or dissertation research, for travel to professional meetings, and occasionally for research equipment purchases. These requests are considered on a case-by-case basis by the forensic anthropology faculty. Open to all graduate students in the Department of Anthropology who are conducting forensics research.
Charles H. Faulkner Travel Award
Each Fall and Spring semester, up to two $500 awards are distributed to anthropology graduate students presenting papers or posters, preferably at national and/or international meetings. Open to all graduate students in the Department of Anthropology, with the limitation that the same student can only receive this award every other year.
The Fall deadline is September 15 each year, and the Spring deadline is February 15 each year.
Patricia Black Archaeological Research Award
The Patricia Black Archaeological Research Award is available to support outstanding archaeology students’ research projects. Funds are disbursed on a case-by-case basis decided by the archaeology faculty. Open to all graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Anthropology who are conducting archaeological research.
Applications are due on October 15 each year.
University of Tennessee
Graduate Student Senate (GSS) Travel Awards
Graduate students who will be presenting research on behalf of UT at in-person or virtual professional conferences may receive support to help with travel costs. Only students who are presenting as first authors will be funded through this mechanism.
The Department of Anthropology will match up to $200 for travel awards provided by the Graduate
School.
Center for Global Engagement (CGE) W.K. McClure Scholarship
The W.K. McClure Scholarship Program offers UT students financial awards up to $5,000 to support research and creative projects abroad aimed at enhancing and promoting education for world responsibility.
The scholarship can be applied to any project which offers the potential for the development of knowledge relative to significant issues or problems associated with world affairs and the reduction of international conflict, principally through legal, cultural, political, economic, social, and scientific studies.
The McClure Scholarship application typically opens ate fall semester with a deadline at the end of February or beginning of March. Decision letters are sent out the first week in April.
Graduate School, Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA)
Grants up to $5,000 are awarded to the selected students to help support their research, scholarship, and creative activity; give students experience writing grants; and foster the mentoring relationship between faculty and graduate students.
GSRAs are announced and awarded in the fall and spring semesters each academic year.
UT Libraries Data Archiving & Sharing Fund
This fund assists UT Knoxville researchers in openly archiving and preserving data sets in the data repository Dryad, an international open-access repository of research data.
The Data Archiving & Sharing Fund is open to anyone at UT Knoxville with originally-created research data. The funding maximum per project is $250, which will cover up to 70 gigabytes of data in Dryad.
Graduate students may seek funding for thesis and dissection data, and should apply in conjunction with a professor; the fund does not support archiving of data related to class assignments or projects.
Applicants are asked to defer application until their data is ready to be archived.
Additional Grants & Fellowships
Through UT Graduate School