Financial Support

Financial support

A variety of funding sources are available to support graduate students. All Ph.D. students are awarded a five-year support package in the form of Associate Instructor (AI) and Graduate Assistant (GA) positions that offer stipends, tuition remission, and health insurance. M.A. students may also be funded through AI or GA positions.

College of Arts + Sciences funding

Ph.D. students accepted to the program are offered a support package for up to five years in the form of Associate Instructor (AI) and Graduate Assistant (GA) positions. AIs may work as teaching assistants with faculty in large survey courses, or they may be the instructor of record for certain lower-division courses; GAs assist with grading and aspects of course administration. Both AI and GA positions offer a yearly stipend of $23,000.00, tuition remission for up to 30 credits per academic year, health insurance, and coverage of mandatory fees. Awards and fellowships external to the university extend a student’s support package.

Departmental funding

Graduate students are eligible for departmental funds earmarked for student research and conference travel. These include the Louis Hawes Fellowship Fund, Diether Thimme Memorial Scholarship, Theodore R. Bowie Graduate Fellowship, Tanner-Opperman Graduate Student Fellowship, and the Friends of Art Fund for Art History.

Students who are earning an M.L.S. and specializing in art librarianship are eligible for the B. J. Kish Irvine Graduate Scholarship in Art Librarianship, administered by the Department of Information & Library Science, IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering.