Funding: 2022 JDC Archives Fellowships

Deadline: January 28, 2022

The JDC Archives is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for its 2022 fellowship program. In 2022, 6-7 fellowships will be awarded to senior scholars, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and independent researchers to conduct research in the JDC Archives, either in New York or in Jerusalem. Research topics in the fields of twentieth century Jewish history, modern history, social welfare, migration, and humanitarian assistance will be considered, as well as other areas of academic research covered in the JDC archival collections. For more information, and to apply, visit http://archives.jdc.org/about-us/fellowships-and-grants-general-information/ 

The fellowship awards are $2,500. The deadline to submit applications is January 28, 2022.

The JDC Archive’s online database with documents and photographs  is available at http://search.archives.jdc.org/

Finding aids can be accessed at http://archives.jdc.org/explore-the-archives/finding-aids/

Funding: Pitt Project GO Russian Programs for ROTC Students, Summer 2022

Deadline: January 12, 2022

The University of Pittsburgh invites Army, Navy/Marine, and Air Force ROTC students from any US college or university to apply for a Pitt Project GO (Global Officers) scholarship for intensive study of 1st-4th year Russian in Summer 2022. Project GO is an initiative sponsored by the Defense Language and National Security Education Office (DLNSEO) and administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE).

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Funding: Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program

Deadline: December 28, 2021

The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program provides U.S. educators in the arts, social sciences and humanities with opportunities to participate in short-term seminars abroad to improve their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. In 2022, summer seminars will be offered in the Philippines, Hungary, Norway, and Germany.  

Each thematic seminar features educational lectures and interactive, cultural activities specifically designed for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary educators, including visits to local schools and organizations and meetings with education administrators, government officials, policymakers, teachers, and students. Participants draw on their experiences during the program to create new or to enhance existing cross-cultural curricula for use in their U.S. classrooms and school systems. Sixteen educators participate in each seminar. The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program covers airfare, room and board, and program costs. Teacher participants are responsible for a cost-share of $650.

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Funding: Visegrad Scholarship at the Blinken Open Society Archives (Central European University)

Deadline: November 15th, 2021

For a deeper understanding of the interdependent recent history of (the center of) Europe, the International Visegrad Fund offers research fellowship grants at the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at Central European University (CEU), Budapest, on a competitive basis, to support scholars who wish to conduct research in the holdings of the Blinken OSA.

The OSA collections offer a rich documentary base for those interested in: Cold War informational struggles (the research papers of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty), dissident networks and oppositionist productions (samizdat, Western lobbying, letters to the West), political violence, genocide and abuses since the Cold War to the Yugoslav wars in the 90s, post-socialist transformations within the former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe (collapse of the USSR, informal post-Soviet press, human rights activism in the 90s, rise and fall of democracy), everyday life and identity issues during Communism and after (amateur photo collections, files of “women”, “youth”, “minorities”), ethnic minorities under communism and beyond (Jewish national movement in the USSR, refuseniks, rise of nationalism during perestroika), people’s perceptions of communism (socialist and American interviewing projects).

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Teach English/Maymester/Study Russian in Vladimir, Russia (The American Home)

Deadlines: Multiple, See Below

1) American English Program Teaching Positions – Application Deadline March 1, 2022 (http://www.ah33.ru/teach-english/

The American English Program has been helping Vladimir residents to learn English since 1992 and currently has more than 600 students each semester who are taught by a group of American and Russian teachers. 

PROGRAM BENEFITS: monthly stipend, room and board, three hours per week of one-to-one Russian lessons with faculty trained to teach Russian as a foreign language, thorough teacher orientation and ongoing teaching support from 2 full-time teacher trainers, textbooks customized specifically for our program, a pleasant and well-equipped teaching environment, full Russian visa application support, complete on-site administrative support from an excellent Russian staff, and much more. 

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Funding: Texas Intelligence Academy

Deadline: November 30, 2021

Application Deadline: November 30, 2021

Information Session: October 28, 2021 at 5:30PM in FAC 430

The University of Texas at Austin’s Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) announces the 2022 Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA), an intensive academic program focused on intelligence and national security from May 22 to June 1, 2022 in Washington, D.C. The TIA will offer a competitively-chosen group of UT-System undergraduates the opportunity to learn about U.S. intelligence through lectures by distinguished scholars and practitioners, moderated discussions, simulation exercises, and visits to intelligence-related sites and facilities in the Washington, D.C. area. 

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Acad. Job: Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor (Univ. of Alberta)

Deadline: December 1, 2021

STUART RAMSAY TOMPKINS VISITING PROFESSORSHIP

Applications are invited for the position of Stuart Ramsay Tompkins Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  The Stuart Ramsay Tompkins endowment provides for the University to invite scholars from the successor states of the Soviet Union to visit the Departments of History, Classics, and Religion and Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, so that “the body of the University and Canadians generally shall have the benefit of scholarship” from this region.

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Internship: USDIA 2022 Louis Stokes Educational Scholarship Program

Deadline: October 14, 2021

DIA’s 2022 Louis Stokes Educational Scholarship Program is open for applications until October 14, 2021! This is a wonderful opportunity for anyone interested in the Human Intelligence (HUMINT) Career field. Upon successful completion of the Stokes Fellowships program, graduates are guaranteed placement with the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).Posting: https://DIAjobs.dia.mil (search for Stokes)

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Critical Languages Scholarship

Deadline: November 6, 2021

The application for the 2022 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is now open! We welcome your students to apply now to study Russian, Persian, Turkish, or Azerbaijani next summer on a fully-funded study abroad program.

The application is now live and available online at:  https://www.clscholarship.org/apply

The CLS Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. Students spend eight to ten weeks abroad studying one of 15 critical languages. The program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. Most languages offered by the CLS Program (9 of 15) do not require applicants to have any experience studying critical languages.

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Funding: PASIFIC Postdoctoral Fellowships

Deadline: December 30, 2021

We are delighted to inform you that Call-2 for the PASIFIC Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme was opened on 15 September 2021. The PASIFIC Programme is coordinated by the Polish Academy of Sciences and co-financed by the European Union under the MSCA COFUND scheme (Horizon 2020). In the second call, 15 researchers of any nationality and representing all research disciplines will be offered a possibility to pursue their research for two years at one of the Polish Academy of Sciences institutes and the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology.  The deadline for applications is 30 December 2021. 

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