09/20/2023
$28K Graduate Assistantships for Fall 2024 French Studies PhD enrollees (LSU)
The PhD program of the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University is accepting applicants for Fall semester 2024. The application deadline is February 15, 2024. Official applications must be submitted to the LSU Graduate School: https://lsu.edu/graduateschool/admissions/apply.php. Department requirements can be found here: https://www.lsu.edu/hss/french/graduate_program/apply.php. For further information, and to obtain an application fee waiver if needed, contact John Protevi, Director of Graduate Studies, at [email protected].
We offer graduate assistant stipends up to $28,000 for superior applicants, with our baseline offer being $23,000 per academic year (a 9-month appointment). These all include a waiver of tuition fees, the non-resident fee, and the Student Excellence fee. Some university-imposed fees remain, totaling @ $2000 per academic year. There are plans to remove them for Fall 2024 but they have not yet been finalized. Gold-standard health insurance is available for $700 per year (obligatory for international students). Graduate assistantships are guaranteed for four years, provided the student remains in good standing, which means maintaining a minimum 3.0 GPA (an average grade of B in courses completed) and making good progress toward completion of the PhD. We commonly extend assistantships for a fifth year, since we recognize that students need to be funded while completing their dissertation.
Our department enjoys a large private endowment which enables us to provide substantial monetary awards to our graduate students. For example, we awarded all of our graduate assistants a $5000 bonus award this fall. We are also fortunate to be able to fund special opportunities for our graduate students. For example, this summer we fully funded a graduate student to attend the Caribbean Philosophical Association Summer School at the University of Rochester, June 25-July 2. We also fully funded a graduate student to attend the advanced French immersion program at Middlebury College. Also, we always send two of our graduate students (fully funded) to the Dartmouth French Cultural Studies Summer School, a prestigious month-long program held every other summer. (It will be held in Summer 2024.) We encourage our graduate students to seek out special summer opportunities relevant to their studies. In addition, we provide $1500 annually for each graduate student's travel to conferences, etc. (the same amount that is provided to faculty members).
Faculty interests and graduate student profiles can be found here under the “people” tab: https://www.lsu.edu/hss/french/index.php. We intend to hire an advanced associate professor who will join our faculty in Fall 2024, with specializations in Francophone Sub-Saharan African Literature and Music, Contemporary Immigration, African Diaspora, and
20th and 21st century France. Current graduate students come from Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Benin, Vietnam, Iran, and the United States. Past students have been from Canada, France, Côte d'Ivoire, India, and still other countries.
Our department houses LSU's Center for French and Francophone Studies, designated as a Center of Excellence by the French Embassy in New York. For information on the CFFS (including upcoming events), please click on this link: https://www.lsu.edu/cffs/index.php
The mission of the Center for French and Francophone Studies at LSU is to promote interdisciplinary research on the cultural practices, languages, and literatures of Louisiana and the Francophone world.
