The History Department at Lehigh University offers five year combinations of fellowship and TAship support for qualified incoming students in its MA/PhD program in Transnational History. Former graduates of the MA and PhD programs work in a variety of areas including colleges and universities, secondary education, public history, library services, business, and government. Beyond standard funding, graduate students from the past two years won College and Department dissertation fellowships, the Dean's summer research grant, the History Department travel and research (ETG, RTG) grants, a Gipson Institute Research Grant, a Hoben Teaching fellowship, and a Northampton Community College Teaching Fellowship. Additionally, students are encouraged to apply to international fellowships and grants such as the Mellon/ ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, among others.
Recent Award Recipients
Daniel Ramos Matos
History Ph.D. student Daniel Ramos Matos presented research at the University of Lisbon and conducted archival work at the Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo and the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino with the support of the Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Daniel also won the Dean's Summer Research award and the History Department Travel Grant.
Daniel presented at an International Conference Women and Slavery in Africa and America: A Comparative Approach. His research focuses on the African diaspora in the 18th-century Caribbean, particularly Spanish Puerto Rico and Venezuela, by taking a deeper look into Spanish colonial law about slavery and exploring the mobility and the resistance strategies of free and enslaved Africans in the 18th-century Caribbean.