The College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Graduate Student Fellowship builds hands-on, applied research fellowships for graduate students in Applied Anthropology, Applied English, Environment & Community, and Public Sociology.

CAHSS graduate students develop interdisciplinary skills to address complex social and environmental challenges. Students communicate complex concepts to public audiences, advocate for communities in decision-making circles, build more equitable systems, and celebrate the wide diversity of humans and other living beings.

As one of CSU’s newest polytechnic universities, Cal Poly Humboldt’s College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences is home to four graduate programs that have been doing applied research for decades. The programs emphasize:

- The ways that the written word can help us to understand power and bring about justice

- Culturally-appropriate practices for heritage preservation

- Humanistic inquiry about people and the environment

- Analyzing and building a society that works for all

CAHSS graduate students conduct applied research that values the expertise of and the opportunity to build reciprocal relationships with local communities.

Alumni of CAHSS graduate programs find fulfilling professional careers as analysts, community service specialists, environmental consultants, educators, organizers, outreach coordinators, writers, and more in nonprofits, tribal and state government, and educational organizations. CAHSS graduate programs also lay the intellectual foundation for alumni to go on to Ph.D. programs and become professors and professional researchers.

Your gift will help the College deliver research fellowship opportunities to graduate students. Fellowship stipends will allow graduate students to gain direct experience contributing to the topics they are passionate about. The stipends will also allow students to focus more of their time on their research toward degree completion.

With your support, we can support graduate study in the humanities and social sciences to advance work on community-based initiatives. In turn, graduate students receive training to support their professional and intellectual growth. Join us to develop future leaders in the non-profit and academic worlds!