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Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship

Title VI FLAS fellowships are awarded to graduate students enrolled in intensive instruction in the IU Summer Workshop in Slavic and East European Languages (SWSEEL). Awards include stipends of $2,400 plus fee scholarship. Eligible languages include all levels of Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Romanian, Azeri, Georgian, Kazakh, Pashto, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uyghur and Uzbek (first and second year Russian receive lower priority). The SWSEEL application serves as a FLAS application for this program. For more details and application information contact the Institute at reei@indiana.edu.

National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Scholarships and Fellowships

Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin American, and the Middle East. See more detailed information on our Undergraduate Funding page.

Boren Fellowships provide up to $30,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. Fellowships are available to both master's and doctoral level students representing a broad range of academic and professional disciplines. See more detailed information on one of our Graduate Funding pages.

For more information visit: www.borenawards.org

Foreign Language Enhancement Program (FLEP) scholarships

Offered through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), FLEP provides scholarships of up to $2,000 to help graduate students from CIC schools (University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana University, Northwestern University, University of Minnesota, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University and University of Wisconsin-Madison) take advantage of language offerings not available at their home university. Students from these schools may use a FLEP scholarship to take language offerings at the Summer Workshop. For eligibility and application information visit: www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/flep

ACLS Individual East European Language Training Grants

For the study of East European languages, students may apply for an ‘Individual East European Language Training Grant,’ directly through ACLS. Grants are up to $2500 each for summer study of beginning, intermediate, or advanced Albanian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Romanian. These awards are intended for people who will use these languages in academic research or teaching. The deadline is January 16th for summer 2007. The application should specify the name of the institution they wish to attend, along with a statement of the significance of this training for their career plans. These grants can be used to fund SWSEEL attendance. For eligibility and application information visit: http://www.acls.org/seguide.htm#langindividual or http://www.acls.org/.


Non-IU Instruction or Research

Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship

Title VI FLAS fellowships may be awarded to an Indiana University student for summer language instruction at another institution in a language or level of language study not available at IU SWSEEL. The award includes a stipend and fee scholarship, plus travel. Applicants for the summer FLAS for a non-SWSEEL program should fill out the academic year FLAS application and submit it to REEI by February 1.

Foreign Language Enhancement Program (FLEP) scholarships

Offered through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), FLEP provides scholarships of up to $2,000 to help graduate students from CIC schools (University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana University, Northwestern University, University of Minnesota, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University and University of Wisconsin-Madison) take advantage of language offerings not available at their home university. Students from these schools (including Indiana University) may use a FLEP scholarship to take language offerings at other programs . For eligibility and application information visit: www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/flep

ACLS Individual East European Language Training Grants

For the study of East European languages, students may apply for an ‘Individual East European Language Training Grant,’ directly through ACLS. Grants are up to $2500 each for summer study of beginning, intermediate, or advanced Albanian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, or Romanian. These awards are intended for people who will use these languages in academic research or teaching. The deadline is January 16th for summer 2007. The application should specify the name of the institution they wish to attend, along with a statement of the significance of this training for their career plans. For eligibility and application information visit: http://www.acls.org/seguide.htm#langindividual or http://www.acls.org/.

Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Fellowships

SSRC fellowship and grant programs provide support and professional recognition to innovators within fields, and especially to younger researchers whose work and ideas will have longer-term impact on society and scholarship. These programs often target the spaces between disciplines, where new perspectives emerge and struggle for acceptance, thus ensuring the production of knowledge and expertise on key topics, regions, and social challenges. They promote the diversification of knowledge production, strengthening research by ensuring that it remains open to (and challenged by) a range of perspectives, backgrounds, and nationalities.

Most support from the Council goes to predissertation, dissertation, and postdoctoral fellowships, offered through annual, peer-reviewed competitions. Some programs offer summer institutes, advanced research grants, and grants for professionals and practitioners to conduct research. Although SSRC fellowship and grant programs take a variety of forms, they share the goals of supporting innovative knowledge production and of building research capacity in areas of critical social importance.

If you are interested in applying for SSRC grants for summer research or language institutes not at IU you must apply directly through the SSRC.

EU Center Pre-dissertation Summer Grant

The European Union Center of Excellence will award one pre-dissertation summer grant for 2007.

The purpose of the grant is to support research-related travel for preliminary dissertation field activities such as exploring potential research sites, archives, and other research resources; establishing institutional affiliations; and identifying and meeting with local scholars, archivists and professional contacts. It is primarily intended for doctoral students who will apply in the next academic year for external funding to conduct their dissertation research abroad. Students who have reached the ABD stage and formally begun dissertation research are not eligible for funding under this program. The EU Center pre-dissertation summer grant is limited to €2000 paid as travel reimbursement.

The grant recipient will be selected in a competitive process by a committee of five faculty members who represent key departments and schools, as well as different geographic areas. Applications will be judged on the academic quality of the project, likeliness of completion in a timely manner, and the relevance of the project for scholars and professionals. Topics for primary consideration include policy issues of special relevance and timeliness, such as EU enlargement; the transatlantic relationship; law and comparative constitutional development; business, finance, and economics; agro-environmental policies; immigration; minorities; civil society; gender; and others.

The deadline for submission of all application materials is 12 February 2007.

For application visit the EU Center website.


Internship Travel

REEI Mellon Endowment

Small grants are available to help graduate students who require modest support (up to $700/year) for research-related travel (domestic or international), travel for participation in a structured internship program, or travel for advanced language study. Grants may also be used for expenses related to publication of completed research. Students applying under this program may also be eligible for support under Office of International Programs, International Enhancement Grants (see page 8). Please discuss your plans with the REEI staff before submitting an application.

Deadlines: January 15, April 1 (if funds available), October 1

Application Materials Needed:

  • One REEI/Mellon Endowment graduate student application form (available at REEI, Ballantine Hall 565 and online.
  • One letter of recommendation (preferably from the student's academic advisor) addressing the quality of the student's work generally.
  • Itemized budget of expected expenditures.
  • Current IU transcript (unofficial transcript sufficient) and CV or list of academic honors.
  • For conference travel: an abstract of the paper and a copy of the conference program (or notification of the acceptance of the paper).
  • For research: a statement of 1,000 words or less describing educational goals, career interests and plans; the statement should describe the project and the specific purposes for which aid is sought; it should address this activity will further the participant's academic progress and ultimately help achieve career goals.

Hutton Honors College International Experiences Program (for Undergraduates Only)

The Hutton Honors College provides many ways for students to enlarge their horizons, but central to the concept of gaining broader moral and cultural perspectives is foreign study. Edward L. Hutton International Experiences Program Grants help students to experience the ways of other peoples and the sights and tastes of other cultures.

International experiences can be shaped in many ways:

  • a study abroad program for a summer, semester or year, with travel outside the borders of the host city
  • an international research, creative, or vocational project or internship
  • a service project in a foreign country
  • student teaching outside the United States
The deadline for summer grants is the last friday before Spring Break. For more information click here.

 


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