Yale offers many opportunities for funding and support. Thanks to many years of generous alumni donations, the department is able to offer continuing graduate students funding for conference travel and other professional activities. Other, less tangible resources include our Certificates and Exchanges, as detailed below.
Certificates
The department encourages graduate students to take part in Yale’s various certificate and qualification programs. These include Archaia, a program for the study of global antiquity and pre-modernity which offers a graduate qualification, and the Graduate Certificate in Material Histories of the Human Record offered by COSMOS, the MacMillan group pursuing collaborative study of materials and objects.
Learn more about the Archaia program
Learn more about the Poorvu Center’s Certificate of College Teaching Preparation
Financial
Yale University works hard to support graduate students throughout their Ph.D. programs. For doctoral students in the humanities, Yale offers a full funding package for all incoming Classics Ph.D. students for six years.
The basic package includes full tuition and a generous annual stipend. Throughout the unique program of study crafted by a graduate student and their faculty advisers, the university’s goal is to provide support that allows students to focus on their scholarship, successfully complete their education, and find rewarding careers.
For more detailed information on funding support, please reference:
External Affiliations
Under the terms of the Exchange Scholar Program, graduate students may spend a term or full academic year at a number of other institutions, including Berkeley, Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, and Stanford, and certain overseas universities.
The department is affiliated with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and the American Academy in Rome. The Classics department also participates in exchange programs with UCL and the Scuola Normale Superiore (“SNS”), Pisa, both of which allow doctoral students to spend a period of time conducting research under the supervision of faculty at those institutions. We are also members of the Yale’s Baden-Württemberg exchange. We also sponsor an annual research/professional development exchange event with Cambridge, aka Yalebridge.
Mentoring
We have several overlapping and flexible mentoring processes in place for graduate students.
- Each entering graduate student receives a faculty mentor for their first two years, with whom they can discuss especially career plans and course choice.
- The current graduate students run a mentoring system to look out for new students (who subsequently take over the job of mentoring as they advance in the program); this is well-funded by the department so that students can enjoy discussions over coffee or drinks.
- The graduate students elect an annual liaison to the faculty, who reports on areas of discontent and suggestions for improvement at each faculty meeting. There is also a regular graduate member of the GSA.
- Finally, all grad students in residence meet in person twice a year with the DGS; these meetings can also take place over Zoom for students studying elsewhere.