The History Department supports a limited number of Public History students through graduate assistantships. These can be teaching assistantships or professional assistantships. Assistantships, whether teaching or professional, usually require a commitment of 15-20 hours/week and in 2020-21 paid a stipend of $7625/semester for MA students and $8625/semester for those enrolled in the PhD program. Students who hold assistantships automatically qualify for the in-state rate of graduate tuition and receive a tuition abatement. The financial assistance situation varies from year to year, as does the number of available assistantships.
Recently students have been placed in professional assistantships at the following institutions:
- Historic Columbia Foundation
- South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office
- Norfolk Southern Railroad grant project
- Pinckney-Horry Papers Documentary Editing Project
In addition, some units on the University of South Carolina campus contact us requesting names of graduate students who might want to have a graduate assistantship:
- McKissick Museum
- South Carolina Political Collections
- University Archives
- Thomas Cooper Library