Deadline: March 20, 2025
Thanks to the generosity of donors and members, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies is offering research grants with a stipend of maximum $6,000, for the purposes of conducting doctoral dissertation research in Eastern Europe and Eurasia in any aspect of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies in any discipline. Students may only receive ONE ASEEES Dissertation Research Grant over the course of their graduate studies.
Eligibility
- Applicant may be a graduate student of any citizenship, in any discipline currently enrolled in a PhD program in the United States, and for the Bailey Dissertation Research Grant, in the US and Canada
- Applicant must have successfully achieved PhD candidacy (ABD status) by the start of the proposed research travel
- Applicant must have requisite language proficiency to conduct the proposed research
- Applicant must be a student member of ASEEES at the time of application
- Applicant must plan to conduct research in one or more of countries within the region covered by ASEEES, including: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
- For 2024, considering Russia’s war in Ukraine, research in Russia or Ukraine may be difficult. Applications to conduct research in Russia or Ukraine are accepted, but we also encourage you to apply to conduct research in another country listed above.
- Applicant must plan to start the research travel by no later than January 31 of the subsequent year (Ex: Upon notification of the fellowship in the summer of 2025, the grant recipient must start his/her research travel no later than January 31, 2026)
- Applicant must not be current or past recipient of the ASEEES Dissertation Summer Writing Grant
- Applicant must not have held or hold the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays DDRA, Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, or other similarly fully-funded fellowships for the same research project. The Dissertation Research Grant may be held concurrently with other partial funding sources, but the purpose of the grant is to support students whose projects have not yet been fully supported.