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Anthropology
Department Funding Guide
Anthropology Department Financial Support
The Anthropology Department provides a variety of financial support opportunities to enrolled graduate students in the department.
Graduate Assistantships
Research/Project Assistantships
Endowments
Travel Funding
There are two types of assistantships offered in the department each year for enrolled students: Graduate assistant positions, and teaching positions.
Fellowships for admissions: Approximately eight Graduate Assistantship fellowships are offered to high-ranking applicants each year. There is no need to apply for this assistantship.
Graduate Assistantships for enrolled students: All graduate students in good standing with the department are eligible to receive at least a one-year Graduate assistantship, however as these are cycled through the student body, it may be several years before the assistantship may become available. Students must apply in the spring to be considered.
Teaching positions: Students with a Master’s degree or advanced to doctoral candidacy and in good standing in the department may be eligible for various teaching positions, both within anthropology and in other departments. Because these opportunities come from a different funding source the pay and benefits are usually not as appealing as the Graduate Assistantship. However, these positions do not reduce eligibility for receipt of a Graduate Assistantship and they do provide experience and training for graduate students.
Research/Project Assistantships
Research and Project assistantships are offered occasionally by various faculty in the department.
The Department has six endowments:
Endowed Lectureships:
Endowed Lectureships Present honoraria to students chosen to give a public lecture in the Maxwell Museum:
Frieda Butler Award
Ruth Kennedy Award
Endowment Scholarships:
Subfield committees nominate a candidate for each award and submit their nominee to the Department Graduate Committee in charge of the award process.
Schwerin Graduate Fellowship award: Ethnology Doctoral student with no previous funding; priority given for scholastic ability and research potential.
Folklore Prize: To a graduate or undergraduate student with research completed on an area related to New Mexico folklore
Frank J. Broilo, Harry W. and Margaret Basehart Memorial Endowment Scholarship: A cash award of $500 given to deserving graduate students who are pursuing a course of study in archaeology and ethnology. The scholarship is awarded annually by the Department of Anthropology to honor the memory of Frank J. Broilo, the first director of UNM’s Office of Contract Archaeology until his death in 1979; Professor Harry W. Basehart, professor emeritus of anthropology until his death in 1988 and editor of the Department’s Journal of Anthropological Research from 1962 to 1974 and 1981 to 1982; and his wife Margaret Basehart, who died in 1992. The scholarship is a cash award of $500 given to deserving graduate students who are pursuing a course of study in archaeology and ethnology. The scholarship alternates annually between archaeology and ethnology graduate students, and this academic year has been awarded to four archaeologists.
Krisztina Kosse Memorial Scholarship:A cash award of $200 given to an outstanding undergraduate senior concentrating in archaeology, preferably with a special interest in or focus on Old World complex societies. The scholarship awarded annually by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology to honor the memory of Dr. Krisztina Kosse, an archaeological scholar of the European Iron Age and for many years the Curator of Collections at the museum until her death in 1995. The scholarship is a cash award of $200 given to an outstanding senior concentrating in archaeology, preferably with a special interest in or focus on Old World complex societies.
The Barbara MacCaulley Endowment Scholarship:A variable cash award between $400 and $500 given to an outstanding undergraduate with a concentration in archaeology who is a full-time student entering their senior year with high motivation to pursue a career in archaeology.The scholarship is awarded annually by the Department of Anthropology to honor the memory of Barbara MacCaulley, who graduated from the university in 1951 and then pursued a career in the Foreign Service until her death in 1984. The scholarship is a variable cash award between $400 and $500 given to an outstanding undergraduate with a concentration in archaeology who is a full-time student entering their senior year with high motivation to pursue a career in archaeology.
Each Fall Anthropology Graduate Students may apply for department travel funds. Typically the Department Chair will call for student travel/research funding requests for the entire academic year. The award is nominal but widely distributed among anthropology graduate students Note: Please see travel funding from GPSA and Graduate Studies in “Other Financial Support” section below
More detailed information about funding within the Department and at UNM is
described in the Funding Guide.
Anthropology
Department Funding Guide >>
The Office of Graduate Studies offers various awards, which frequently may be held concurrently with other forms of aid. Contact: The Office of Graduate Studies, Humanities Building Room 107 (505) /277-2711.
Latin American and Iberian Institute
(LAII)Financial Aid
Anthropology students with Latin American research
interests have frequently qualified for fellowships provided by LAII. Contact:
LAII, Located at 801 Yale NE (505) 277-2961
The Student Research Allocations Committee (SRAC) provides money for student research projects and for travel expenses to conferences/workshops directly related to the student's degree program. Contact: GPSA, Graduate Professional Student Association at (505/277-3803).
UNM Student Financial Aid
The University administers National Direct/Perkins
Loans and Guaranteed Student Loans and cooperates in the administration of
a number of other such funds, as well as work-study and student employment
programs
Office of Research Services Funding Opportunities
Postdoctoral
Opportunities in Anthropology
National
Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
School of American Research (SAR)
UNM Scholarship Office
In State Resident Tuition
It is possible to be eligible for resident tuition
after one year. In addition, in some cases it is possible for first year students
to take a reduced load of six credit hours making them eligible for a resident
rate of tuition. Note: International students are not eligible for resident
tuition.
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