Primary Source of Financial Support for Doctoral Students in the Humanities, 1998–2012

A largely unacknowledged form of support for the humanities enterprise comes in the form of students subsidizing a portion of their education. In 2012, 64% of Ph.D. recipients reported a teaching or research assistantship, employer subsidy, or their own resources as their primary form of financial support during doctoral training. The share of students not relying on grants or fellowships declined throughout the first decade of the 21st century, but then rose slightly from 2009 to 2012.