Funding & Fellowships Yale University offers its students many options when it comes to funding their research. Some of these are intended primarily for Archaeology students, including the two below. The Josef Albers Traveling Fellowships [doc file]      Josef Albers was a well known modernist painter and theorist who was chair of the Yale Department of Design from 1950-1958. The Josef Albers Foundation established the Albers Traveling Fellowship to be used for awards to Yale students (graduate and undergraduate), post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty for travel and research expenses in connection with scholarly research involving pre-Columbian art and artifacts of Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America. The Coe Fieldwork Fund [doc file]      Michael D. Coe is the Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus at Yale. Renowned for his decades of research, especially that on the Maya and Olmec civilizations, Coe retired in 1994. The Coe Fieldwork Fund was established primarily for undergraduate Archaeological Studies majors seeking to fulfill their summer fieldwork requirement, though others, including M.A. and Ph.D. students, may be considered. See the description for application requirements. The Augusta Hazard Fund [doc file]       The Augusta Hazard Fund is a research fellowhip available to Ph.D. graduate students who plan foreign travel for archaeological research during the summer. Grants, which are intended to help defray travel expenses, ordinarily range from $1000-$1500.