Funding Opportunities
The Center for Italian Studies contributes to the funding of research in Italian Studies by subsidizing a number of grants and fellowships for undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and visiting researchers in Italian Studies. Click the links below to find out more.
Funding for Notre Dame Undergraduate Students to Travel to or Study in Italy
Ravarino Family Italian Scholars Summer Grant (Deadline: Feb. 4)
Rome International Scholars Program (Deadline: Nov. 1)
Sciola Grant for Undergraduate or Graduate Research in Italy (Deadline: mid-March)
Sellick Travel Grants for Research in Italy (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
Funding for Notre Dame Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars for Research in Italy
Biblioteca Ambrosiana Research Awards (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
Dante Studies Travel Grants (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
OVI Summer Grants (Deadline: mid-March)
Ravarino Family Italian Scholars Summer Grant (Deadline: Feb. 4)
Sciola Grant for Undergraduate or Graduate Research in Italy (Deadline: mid-March)
Sellick Travel Grants for Research in Italy (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
Short-Term Research Fellowship at Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
Funding for Notre Dame Faculty for Research in Italy
Biblioteca Ambrosiana Research Awards (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
D'Agostino Research Travel Grants (Deadline: Dec. 31)
Dante Studies Travel Grants (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
Sellick Travel Grants for Research in Italy (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
Short-Term Research Fellowship at Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
Funding for External Scholars to Conduct Research at Notre Dame
Biblioteca Ambrosiana Research Awards (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
Dante Studies Travel Grants (Applications accepted on a rolling basis)
The Italian Studies Library Research Award (Deadline: Dec. 12)
Funding for External Scholars to Conduct Research in Italy
D'Agostino Research Travel Grants (Deadline: Dec. 31)
Biblioteca Ambrosiana Research Awards
With the Medieval Institute, the Center co-sponsors the Biblioteca Ambrosiana Research Awards. These awards enable individual scholars or groups of scholars—including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows—to pursue projects in connection with the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and its holdings in Milan and Notre Dame. Please send a C.V., a proposal of less than 750 words that describes the project, and a detailed budget to italianstudies@nd.edu. Cost sharing is encouraged and should be included in the proposed budget. Open to researchers outside of Notre Dame and to Notre Dame faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.
Peter R. D'Agostino Research Travel Grants
With the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, the Center co-sponsors the Peter R. D'Agostino Research Travel Grants to facilitate the study of the American past from an international perspective. This competitive, annual award supports research in Roman archives for a significant publication project on U.S. Catholic history. Open to researchers outside of Notre Dame and to Notre Dame faculty.
Dante Studies Travel Grants
With the Devers Family Program in Dante Studies, the Center co-sponsors several travel grants to support research by Notre Dame faculty and graduate students in Italy, but also for faculty and graduate students from other institutions whose research would benefit from on-site access to Notre Dame's special collections on Dante, the Ambrosiana archive, or other of its Italian holdings. For more information, please contact devers@nd.edu.
OVI Summer Internships
As part of the M.A. in Italian Studies and Ph.D. in Italian at the University of Notre Dame, each summer the Center for Italian Studies offers internships to promising student-scholars, who spend one to two weeks in Florence at the OVI Institute. Interns in Florence participate in the day-to-day work of the OVI Institute where they acquire professional training in digital philology and lexicography, while refining their research skills on early Italian texts and writing entries for the TLIO dictionary. The OVI Summer Internship Program is open to current graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in Italian Studies at Notre Dame. Participants are responsible for their own travel, room, and board. Modest stipends and/or partial fellowships are offered to help pay living and travel expenses. Those interested in the OVI Summer Internships should contact Demetrio S. Yocum.
The Italian Studies Library Research Award
The Center for Italian Studies and Notre Dame International jointly administer an Italian Studies Library Research Award. This award provides grant funding for scholars to use the collections of the Hesburgh Libraries for research in Italian studies. Research awards are intended to defray the cost of travel and accommodation for research visits of one to three weeks in duration. Applications from international locations are encouraged. Click here for more information and to access the application.
Ravarino Family Italian Scholars Summer Grant
Thanks to a generous gift from the Ravarino Family, the Center sponsors travel grants for graduate and undergraduate students who are will pursue research or a formal summer language program in Italy. Click here to download the application.
Rome International Scholars Program
With Notre Dame International, the Center co-sponsors undergraduate research in Italy through the Rome International Scholars Program. Open to Notre Dame undergraduates.
The Diana M. Sciola Grant for Undergraduate or Graduate Research in Italy
The Center encourages Notre Dame undergraduates and graduate students in all Arts and Letters disciplines whose research interests address the impact of Catholic traditions upon Italian artistic culture to submit proposals to the Sciola Grant Program, which is administered by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. In order to be eligible for funding, research must take place in Italy. Open to Notre Dame undergraduate and graduate students.
Sellick Travel Grants for Research in Italy
The Jay A. and Sara L. Sellick Endowment for Excellence in Italian Studies, in memory of John A. ('53) and Juli Ann Sellick provides support for undergraduate, graduate student, and faculty research and travel to Italy and the Rome Global Gateway. Click here to download the application.
Short-Term Research Fellowship at Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway
With the College of Arts and Letters and Notre Dame International, the Center co-sponsors short-term fellowships for research in Rome by Notre Dame graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty. Click here to download the application.