Graduate Students
Engagement with the welcoming Kellogg community, coupled with a variety of research support, makes all the difference to the doctoral students affiliated with the Institute. Drawn to work with renowned Notre Dame faculty, they become an integral part of the Institute’s intellectual life.
Fellowship Opportunities
Our objectives for graduate students parallel our overall aspirations for building intellectual community: attract the best, assemble a community of scholars, and promote research excellence, especially related to our research themes of democracy and human development. Generous research funding compliments excellent professors and the supportive Kellogg community.
Phd Fellowships
Our support of graduate students starts before they decide to come to Notre Dame and continues throughout their training.
Dissertation Year Fellowships
Dissertation Year Fellowships in International Studies fund advanced Notre Dame graduate students in the social sciences, history, theology, and international human rights law.
Grant Opportunities
With the intention of fostering new and promising research into issues that run parallel with our core themes, the Kellogg Institute offers multiple grants for research, professional training, and conference travel for our graduate students.
Graduate Research Grants
The purpose of this grant is to support Notre Dame Ph.D. or JSD students involved in overseas research.
Professionalization Grants
Financial support for professional training to help graduate students become better prepared to enter the academic workplace.
Conference Travel Grants
To support travel to academic conferences where graduate students will present papers.
The Bokhari Fund: This Fund provides grants of up to $4000 for the study of Islamic societies and culture, and can be devoted to research or conference travel. Please note in the first paragraph of your proposal that you are requesting support from the Bokhari Fund. Use Bokhari grants as a sole source of funding for a project, or combine them with other grants offered by the Kellogg Institute or the University of Notre Dame.
Legacy Project Internal Grants: The Legacy Project Grants aim to support Notre Dame faculty, researchers and graduate students with grants of up to $2,500, that use, and intend to maximize, the transmedia files of the Colombian Truth Commission towards peace, conflict, and democracy research at the University of Notre Dame.
