Jointly established by the Provost's Office, the Graduate College, the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and the College of Fine & Applied Arts, the Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities and Arts recruits exceptional students of any nationality or citizenship who wish to pursue the doctoral degree. Sixteen fellowships, each with three years of support, are awarded in each competition cycle; departments nominate applicants. A selection of past winners from SLCL is here below.

2019-20

♦ Christopher Delzell, Comparative and World Literature

♦ Britni Moore, Linguistics 

♦ Jianfeng Guo, East Asian Languages and Cultures

♦ Walther Glodstaf , Linguistics

♦ Joseph Baronovic , Classics

2018-19

♦ Sarah Chitwood, Comparative and World Literature

♦ Sofya Styrina, Linguistics

♦ Allison Casar, Linguistics

♦ Demetry Ogolstev, Slavic Languages and Literatures

♦ Jiani Lin, East Asian Languages and Cultures

♦ Jonathan Gonzalez, French and Italian

♦ Aylin Coskun, Linguistics

♦ Cristina Gonzalez Martin, Spanish and Portuguese (deferred 1st year)