The Department awards a number of graduate and teaching assistantships each year. For 2005-2006, the total combined number of departmentally granted awards is 22. A few of the GAs each year are allocated to incoming students. Some of the awards to continuing students were for one semester only. All of the awards carry full tuition scholarships for the term of the award. Students are advised to consult the Procedures for Annual Allocations of TA/GA support to Graduate Students link.

In addition to these departmental awards, the University holds an annual competition for Clark Fellowships, which are awarded to qualified underrepresented minority applicants from any graduate program in the University. Candidates must be nominated by the Department for these fellowships. In 2004-2005, there were five (5) Clark Fellows in Anthropology.

Exclusive of the above, the Archaeological Analytical Research Facility (AARF) and the Institute for Development Anthropology (IDA) offer occasional research assistantships for qualified applicants. These research assistantships, and others that are occasionally available through faculty grants, also carry tuition scholarships (at the New York State resident tuition rate).

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Part-time employment positions are available to graduate students throughout the year at the Public Archaeology Facility. Several anthropology graduate students each year qualify for library assistantships, student internships in administrative offices, computer center assistantships, most of which offer tuition scholarships or partial tuition scholarships. Federal Work-Study graduate assistantships average $2,000 per year, plus a full tuition scholarship. These are available to graduate students demonstrating financial need according to the criteria of this federally funded program. To be eligible, a student must be registered on at least a half-time basis (for a G1 student - a student who has completed fewer than 24 credits - this would require enrollment for six credit hours). Completed financial aid forms should be submitted to the College Scholarship Service. New York State residents must also apply to TAP.

New York State residents may apply for the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP). For information and application forms, write to: New York State Higher Education Services Corporation, P.O. Box 15116, Albany, NY 12212.

Advanced graduate students in anthropology have been quite successful in obtaining outside research funding from such sources as the Social Science Research Council, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Program, Rockefeller Foundation, American Schools of Oriental Research, Sigma Xi, and the Inter-American Foundation. In recent years, graduate students in the Department have obtained funding from Fulbright-Hays Fellowships, National Institutes of Health Summer Internships, National Science Foundation Grants, Population Council Fellowships, Social Science Research Council Fellowships, Wenner-Gren Foundation Grants-in-Aid, the World Bank Margaret McNamara Memorial Fellowships, and a variety of other sources.