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The Center for African & African American Studies offers award, fellowship, and scholarship opportunities for faculty and graduate students conducting research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and/or African diaspora studies.

Graduate Student Award and Fellowship Funding Opportunities 

• The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Fellowship Program: The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Fellowship Program (aka the “CAAAS Grad Fellows Program”) provides support and scholarly community for University of Colorado Boulder graduate students conducting research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and African diaspora studies. CAAAS Grad Fellows receive a stipend and are eligible for CAAAS Grad Student Awards, the CAAAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, the CAAAS's Alice Cleora Reeves Dissertation Award, and the CAAAS’s Jessica Bertram Womanist Innovation Award. CAAAS Grad Student Fellows participate in, and contribute to, several interdisciplinary and intersectional research “Lunch & Learn” events (at least two each semester) co-sponsored by the Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS) and CU Libraries. Currently only grad students who have received CAAAS Grad Student Summer Fellowships are eligible for the CAAAS Grad Fellows Program. For more information on the CAAAS Grad Student Summer Fellowship Program, see here.
• The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Summer Fellowships: The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Summer Fellowships (aka the “CAAAS Grad Student Summer Fellowships”) are for University of Colorado Boulder graduate students conducting research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and African diaspora studies who do not already receive university-sponsored or external funding (in any amount) during the summer months. The $7,500 stipend will be paid out in $2,500 payments in June, July, and August. All CU Boulder graduate students with demonstrable research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and/or African diaspora studies are eligible to apply.
• The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Research & Creative Work Awards: The purpose of the CAAAS Graduate Student Research & Creative Work Awards (aka “CAAAS Grad Student Awards”) are to assist University of Colorado Boulder graduate students with their research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and African diaspora studies. CAAAS Grad Student Awards provide modest funding for a variety of projects. For example, CAAAS Grad Student Awards can be used for research materials, creative work assistance, travel for research and creative work purposes, conference presentations, exhibitions, performances, etc. Partial funding is possible, and most awards are between $1,500 and $2,500. The CAAAS will consider funding up to $3,500 for international travel based on airfare and lodging costs. There may also be instances when domestic research travel requiring a longer stay than a traditional conference may also be funded for a higher amount (but no greater than $3,000).
• The Center for African and African American Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship: The Center for African & African American Studies (CAAAS) Dissertation Completion Fellowship provides one semester of full funding during either the Fall or Spring semester. Support will consist of a stipend equal to a 50% GPTI appointment paid out in monthly increments. Up to five dissertation hours of tuition, mandatory fees, and coverage under the student gold health plan are also included. All CU Boulder doctoral students with demonstrable research and creative work in African studies, African American studies, and/or African diaspora studies are eligible to apply.
• The Center for African and African American Studies’ Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Award: The Center for African & African American Studies’ Alice Cleora Reeves Endowed Dissertation Award is for doctoral candidates from any campus-wide program, department, or college who are active participants in the Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) at the University of Colorado Boulder. Expenditures from the Reeves Dissertation Award can be used for, but are not limited to, stipends, support for research, creative work, and other activities that support students’ doctoral dissertation development, and other costs related to students’ dissertation completion.
• Jessica Bertram Womanist Innovation and Pioneer Award: This award is established in 2024 by S. N. Nyeck, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Economy and Africana Studies at CU Bouler in honor of Jessica Bertram from the Department of Dance at CU Boulder for her womanist MFA thesis and performance entitled "Homecoming: Returning to Love (Of the Self and Of the Folk).