Funding – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

February 7, 2025February 7, 2025

Funding: Dame Elizabeth Hill Award

Deadline: May 31, 2025

Applications are now open for PhD students or Early Career Researchers undertaking research in history, linguistics, literature, anthropology, archaeology, or related disciplines.

The Dame Elizabeth Hill Award is funded by a gift from former SSEES academic and Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, the linguist Dame Elizabeth Hill. The Scholarship honours Professor Dame Elizabeth’s work as a linguist and seeks to help prepare future expert Slavists of wider scope and horizons. This award of up to £18,000 over the course of three years is intended to support researchers who demonstrate outstanding academic promise in undertaking ambitious research projects related to a premodern Slavonic subject, including paleography in the Slavonic languages and the pre-1800 literature of the Slavs.

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowships

Deadline: March 10, 2025

The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) fellowships program.

The FRA program funds fellowships through institutions of higher education (IHEs) to faculty members to conduct research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies to improve their skill in languages and their knowledge of the culture of the people of these countries. Fellows conduct research abroad for three to 12 months. Funds support travel expenses to and from the fellow’s residence and the country or countries of research, a maintenance stipend related to the fellow’s academic year salary, and an allowance for research-related expenses, such as books and photocopying, tuition, affiliation fees, local travel, and other incidental expenses. Proposals focusing solely on Western Europe are not eligible.

IFLE expects to make 15 new awards totaling approximately $750,000 under the FY 2025 FRA competition. Applications for the FRA program must be submitted through the G5/G6 system. The application package document provides specific instructions on how to apply for an FRA fellowship. The deadline to apply is March 10, 2025.

Please refer to the official Federal Register notice for detailed information about the FY 2025 competition.

VISIT THE FRA “HOW TO APPLY” WEBSITE

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025

ASEEES Dissertation Research Grant Program

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.

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025

OVD-Info Prize for Master’s and PhD Research on Repression, Surveillance and Censorship in Contemporary Russia

Deadline: January 31, 2025

OVD-Info, in collaboration with several universities and faculty, has announced its inaugural prize competition for Master’s and PhD research on repression, surveillance, and censorship in contemporary Russia. The text of the announcement is below, and more information and the application form are available at: https://en.ovdinfo.org/competition.

December 17, 2024December 17, 2024

Funding: Humane Studies Fellowship

Deadline: Rolling

The Humane Studies Fellowship provides up to $5,000 to support students completing major research projects, presenting their work at top conferences, and publishing their work in major journals. This award is intended to foster those key projects which maximize a recipient’s research impact and career prospects. These awards give you access to other IHS opportunities including job market support, in-person and online events, and much more.

Awardees are expected to submit copies of research completed, presented, submitted for review, or published during the fellowship period when and as available. Awardees will also provide updates on significant progress made during the fellowship period.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Applicants will be notified of their award within eight weeks of submission.

December 9, 2024December 10, 2024

Funding Opportunities (American Research Institute of South Caucasus)

Deadline: December 20, 2024

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) has extended the deadlines for several funding opportunities for 2024-25! Short descriptions below. Please check our website for full eligibility and application information, as well as additional funding opportunities.

Deadlines extended!

(Additional information below)

December 20, 2024

Junior Research Fellowships – Extended!

Research and Mentoring Fellowships – Extended!

Small Grants – Extended!

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November 21, 2024November 21, 2024

Fulbright-Hays 2025 Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowships Program

Deadline: January 15, 2025

The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship program provides opportunities for doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to deepen research knowledge and increase the study of modern foreign languages, cultural engagement, and area studies not generally included in U.S. curricula.

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024

Oral History Project Grant

Deadline: June 1, 2025

Grants of up to $5,000 awarded annually.

The Oral History Office of the Hagley Library invites applications for oral history project support. The interviews generated by these projects will become part of the collection of the Hagley Library, which guarantees the permanent preservation of and access to oral histories associated with any funded project. Graduate students conducting research for their thesis or dissertation, and more advanced scholars for books or other scholarly projects may apply for this grant. Our objective is to expand our oral history collections on business and its relationship to society by supporting serious research that uses oral history as a principal source, and to encourage use of oral interviews more generally. To achieve that goal Hagley seeks to collaborate with oral history practitioners and build a robust archive for the preservation of current projects and as a foundation for future projects and the larger business history community.

November 12, 2024November 12, 2024

Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Competition

Deadline: January 21, 2025

Picture of participants abroad on a Group Projects Abroad trip

The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) program.
The GPA program provides grants to institutions and private, nonprofit education entities that organize programs for K-12 teachers, college students, and faculty to engage in short- or long-term overseas projects focused on training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies. GPA short-term projects include seminars, curriculum development, and group research or study. GPA long-term projects support advanced intensive overseas programs that focus on languages, the humanities, or social sciences.
IFLE expects to make 20 new awards totaling approximately $3.3 million under the FY 25 GPA competition. The application is now available at www.grants.gov. The deadline to apply is Jan. 21, 2025.Please refer to the official Federal Register notice for detailed information about the FY 2025 competition.

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November 8, 2024November 8, 2024

Title VIII Research and Dissertation Grants

Deadline: December 31, 2024

The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research welcomes applications to its 2025 Title VIII competitions:

The Title VIII National Research Competition (PhD holders, US citizens only) provides funding of up to $20,000 for individual projects and $40,000 for collaborative projects on issues relevant to current US foreign policy within the Title VIII eligible regions (please see www.nceeer.org for eligible countries).