Scholarships & Funding
Anthropology majors can earn department awards for study abroad and original research. Explore your options, then apply through ScholarshipUniverse.
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The Department of Anthropology offers two awards for undergraduate majors: the Frederic Hicks International Travel Award, which supports credit-bearing study abroad, and the Peteet Award for Excellence in Anthropological Scholarship, which recognizes research and fieldwork. Selection is based on academic performance (GPA), research participation or promise, and, for the Hicks Award, financial need. Full award criteria and applications are in ScholarshipUniverse.
The Frederic Hicks International Travel Award
Eligibility
The Hicks Award is given to anthropology majors who show excellence in their coursework as demonstrated by their GPA, who show promise of continuing their education in anthropology or a related field, who can explain how the proposed international experience advances their education, and who demonstrate financial need.
Dr. Frederic Hicks was a professor in our department for many years. Until his retirement in 1996, he taught Mesoamerican ethnohistory and Latin American anthropology. This award is his legacy to the Anthropology Department. It is hoped that students will gain fresh insights and understanding through their travel, study, and research in new cultural settings. In the past few years, our majors have used this award for study in - among other places - Peru, Morocco, Portugal, Costa Rica, and Australia.
These funds can only be used to support participation in appropriate travel/study abroad programs which offer academic credit. Preference is given to students of junior or senior standing.
The Peteet Award for Excellence in Anthropological Scholarship
Eligibility
This award honors the career of Anthropology faculty member and former department chair Julie Peteet, who helped build and shape the department from 1991 to 2021. Professor Peteet’s dedication to impactful research can be seen in her many publications and academic honors, her commitment to supporting scholarship about Palestinian experiences, and her long-term work to grow the Department of Anthropology and the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program at the University of Louisville. Initiated in 2021, this annual award recognizes the research and scholarship activities of exceptional undergraduate Anthropology majors.
The award is given based upon evidence of primary research participation and/or future research promise within any of the sub-disciplines of anthropology. Evidence of research participation may include participation in fieldwork or primary data collection within a faculty-led project; creation of independent research for a course, thesis, or otherwise; presentation of findings at an academic conference; participation in the writing of academic research articles; or other related scholarly activities.