The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship competition is open to graduate students who are U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents who are enrolled in or applying to a full-time program that combines modern foreign language training with international or area studies. Two types of FLAS Fellowships are available at the University of Chicago: Summer Fellowships & Academic Year Fellowships. Applications due April 18th, 2022.
The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships offer a stipend of $2,500 and tuition of up to $5,000 to undergraduate students concentrating in a modern foreign language and a program that includes international or area studies. Fellowships may be used for domestic or overseas intensive programs at the intermediate or advanced level of language study. Programs must last a minimum of six weeks. Eligible languages include Armenian, Bosnian, Croatian, Kazakh, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Turkish, Uzbek, and Yiddish. FLAS applications are ranked based on applicants' academic performance, letters of recommendation, application materials, and financial need. Applications due April 18, 2022.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges invites applications for an intensive Russian program this summer in Daugavpils, Latvia, with financial support from US Dept of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program. Tentative Dates: July 1-August 11, 2022 (approximately 5 weeks).
Apply for the PATHS/Area Studies Centers (Virtual) Public Lectureship Prize to share your global expertise with local populations. Recipients will receive a $250 stipend and logistical support for planning a virtual talk in collaboration with a Chicago-area school, public library, or other community venue. Recipients will also engage in required GRADTalk public speaking training as they prepare for their online presentations.
FLAS Fellowships are awards for graduate students concentrating on modern foreign language and international or area studies. In the 2022-2023 competition cycle, UChicago will accept applications for languages in three world areas: East Asia, East Europe, and Middle East. FLAS Fellowships provide both summer and academic year awards. The deadline to apply is February 16, 2022.
Applications for the Library Data Award Program are due on February 1, 2022. The University of Chicago Library launched the program for undergraduate and graduate students. The program funds the purchase of data for research and is open to all students at the university. If an applicant is selected, the Library will negotiate the purchase of the requested dataset, disburse the funds directly to the vendor, and host the data for campus access.
The Higher School of Economics School of Linguistics in Moscow, Russia, invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in one of the following fields: second language acquisition, computational linguistics, machine learning, corpus linguistics, Slavic languages, computational lexicography, typology, lexical semantics, construction grammar, sociolinguistics, Slavic languages, history of language. The deadline to apply is January 31, 2022.
The Davis Center will award one postdoctoral fellowship in history and one postdoctoral fellowship in literature and culture, beginning in September 2022. We welcome research proposals on topics related to the study of Eurasia. The Davis Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers comprehensive research, training, and professional development opportunities for scholars advancing their careers in history and the humanities. Fellows pursue their research with support from an interdisciplinary community of experts, and with access to world-class resources.
Deadline for Applications: January 24, 2022
The Harriman Institute invites applications for 2 two-year Mellon Teaching Fellow positions, extending over 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. Mellon Fellows are expected to concentrate on their own research and writing; to teach a course of their own design in the spring semester of each of the two years; to give a public seminar/lecture on their research and to be active participants in the Institute's scholarly community. The Institute provides opportunities to organize conferences and other public events around their particular interests.
Eligibility is restricted to those who have received the Ph.D. between January 1, 2020 and June 30, 2022 and do not hold a tenure-track position.
The Department of State's Title VIII program funds graduate students with U.S. citizenship to study the less commonly taught languages of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union at ASU’s Critical Languages Institute. For summer 2022, CLI is looking forward to returning to in-person instruction on the ASU campus and at our overseas locations. Languages include: Albanian, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), Kazakh, Macedonian, Polish, Russian (3rd year or higher), Tatar, Ukrainian, and Uzbek. The application deadline is January 24, 2022.
