Graduate Resources

Academic Resources

General Information

• Academic Calendar
• Graduate School Key Dates

Degree Requirements

• Graduate Student Handbook (2024-2025)
• Graduate Student Handbook (2023-2024)
• Graduate Student Handbook (2022-2023)
• Graduate Student Handbook (2021-2022)
• Graduate Student Handbook (2020-2021)
• Graduate Student Handbook (2019-2020)
• Graduate Student Handbook (2018-2019)

Milestones and Professional Development

AADS doctoral students are required to participate in professional development activities. Students must:

• submit one article to a scholarly journal
• attend two job talks
• participate in a minimum of two (2) AADS/WCAAAS/IUPRA activities each year
• present papers at two professional conferences
• submit two fellowship and/or grant applications

Commonly Used Forms

• AFR 396: Conference Course Form
• Qualifying Exam, pt. I
• Prospectus Defense Form (aka Qualifying Exam, pt. II)
• Request for Change in Doctoral Committee

Employment Resources

Although AADS TA appointments are typically assigned to AADS Ph.D. students, from time to time TA openings for AADS courses will become available. Email afr@austin.utexas.edu for information about possible TA opportunities.

• Graduate Student Employment
• Finding a Student Job with the University
• Insurance and Benefits for Student Employees
• Student Non-Academic Employment
• Guidelines for Summer Employment for Graduate Student Employees 
• TA Info Packet

Funding

• Financial Aid
• Externally Funded Fellowships, here and here
• Graduate School Continuing Fellowships
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships

Health and Wellness Resources

• University Health Services
• Urgent Care Clinic
• Nurse Advice Line
• Student Health Insurance
• Recreational Sports

Mental Health

• Counseling and Mental Health Center
• Crisis Line
• Behavior Concerns Advice Line (BCAL)
• Voices Against Violence

Tutoring and Writing Assistance

Sanger Learning Center. Provides tutoring and academic support. 

University Writing Center. Offers writing support to graduate students in the form of individual consultations, writing groups, and writing retreats.

AADS Faculty Recommendations

• On: Writing
• On: Reading
• On: Course Participation

Research Resources

• The Harry Ransom Center. Collections in European literature, history, religion, and science.

• The Benson Latin American Collection. A specialized research library focusing on materials from and about Latin America, and on materials relating to Latinos in the United States.

• The Perry-Castaneda Library. The University's main research library. It embraces all subject fields, with the strongest holdings in the humanities, social sciences, business, and education. It is the ninth largest research library in the United States.

• The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. One of thirteen presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Record Administration. The Library houses forty-five million pages of historical documents, including papers from the entire public career of Lyndon Baines Johnson, and from those of his close associates.

• The Briscoe Center for American History. A history research center that collects, preserves and makes available documentary and material culture evidence encompassing key themes in Texas and U.S. history.

• The Tarlton Law Library. The fifth-largest academic law library in the U.S. The library houses documents on state, U.S., foreign, and international law.
   
• The Black Queer Studies Collection. A virtual gathering of works created through a unique collaboration between former Professor Matt Richardson and the UT Libraries, The Collection is the first of its kind and indicates the importance of critical library interventions as scholarly tools.