Funding – Page 2 – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

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).

November 1, 2024November 1, 2024

American Research Institute of the South Caucasus Grants and Fellowships

Deadlines: (Varies) November, 29, December 6, January 17

ARISC Grants and Fellowships

Note: Applicants may apply to more than one funding opportunity, if eligible. If awarded more than one fellowship, the awardee will be asked to select one.

ARISC Faculty Exchange Fellowship Program – Deadline for Stage One: November 29, 2024

ARISC Graduate/Postdoctoral Fellowships – Deadline: December 6, 2024

ARISC Small Grants – Deadline: December 6, 2024

ARISC Junior Research Fellowship – Deadline: December 6, 2024

ARISC Research and Mentoring Fellowship – Deadline: December 6, 2024

October 24, 2024October 24, 2024

Critical Languages Scholarships

Priority funding deadline: January 31, 2025

Critical Languages Institute (CLI) including study abroad programs in Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Macedonia, Poland, and Uzbekistan!

For the Summer 2025 Cycle, CLI is offering its first year and some second-year programs online – Persian, Turkish, and Russian. Online programs with a study abroad option in Albanian, Armenian, BCS, Polish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Russian, and Macedonian. Finally, 2^nd-Year and advanced programs in Albanian, Armenian, BCS, Polish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, and Russian are available with the newest addition of Daugavpils, Latvia for 3^rd-6^th Year Russian applicants.

CLI’s range of programs are supported by scholarships available for every type of learner.

For more information, please visit our website, attend a virtual CLI Application Assistance session, or email cli@asu.edu.

September 20, 2024September 20, 2024

Funding: Critical Languages Scholarship

Deadline: November 19, 2024

The application for the U. S. Department of State’s 2025 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program and CLS Spark virtual initiative will open in early October! We welcome your students to apply this year to learn a critical language on a funded overseas or virtual summer program.

Through the CLS Program, U.S. undergraduate and graduate students spend eight to ten weeks over the summer studying one of a dozen critical languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. The program is designed to promote rapid language gains through intensive language instruction, host community engagement, and structured cultural activities in a cohort-based setting.

September 16, 2024September 16, 2024

Fellowships: Scaling the Transnational: Entangled Political Imaginaries and Practices in East and West Europe

Deadline: October 21, 2024

Fellowships:
The programme addresses doctoral students and young postdocs from the humanities and social sciences whose research topics match with the questions addressed by STEPPE.

The fellows will be associated with one of the institutions that constitute the project network (Democracy Institute at the Central European University (Budapest / Hungary), New Europe College (Bucharest / Romania), Universität Leipzig (Leipzig/ Germany), and Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin / Germany)). They will be actively involved in all activities of the STEPPE research network. The fellowship programme provides funding for travel to the partner institutes for research and training purposes.

September 13, 2024September 13, 2024

Graduate Student Research Fellowships: Harry Ransom Center (UT Austin)

Deadline: November 4, 2024

The Harry Ransom Center will award 50 Research Fellowships for it’s 2025-2026 Humanities program. These fellowships are open to graduate students (including doctoral candidates), academic faculty at any career stage, and independent researchers such as journalists and artists who require substantial on-site archival research. Application deadline is November 4, 2024 by 5:00 pm CST. Three types of fellowships are available:

One-to-Two-Month Fellowships ($3,500 per month): for projects that require extensive use of the Center’s collections.
Travel Stipends ($2,000) are available for those requiring significant on-site research and cannot be combined with other Ransom Center fellowships
Dissertation Fellowships ($2,000) are available for graduate students whose doctoral dissertation require use of the Center’s collections.

September 13, 2024September 13, 2024

NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline: October 3, 2024

The NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship offers $27,500 to support the writing phase of a dissertation, with funds distributed over one academic year. Fellows also attend two professional development retreats and select a mentor for ongoing guidance. Apply by October 3, 2024, by 5:00 pm ET. For more details, visit NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship website.

September 6, 2024September 6, 2024

Donna Tussing Orwin Essay Competition on Tolstoy

Deadline: September 13, 2024

We’re approaching the deadline for essay submissions to the first annual Donna Tussing Orwin Essay Competition for early career scholars writing on Tolstoy. Please submit or circulate among those who might be interested!

Eligible scholars (undergraduate, graduate students, pre-tenure scholars) are encouraged to submit essays (approximately 8,000 words) on any topic related to Tolstoy. Please send submissions to tgershko@andrew.cmu.edu. They will be evaluated by the editors as well as a panel of judges, and the winning essay will receive a cash prize and publication in Tolstoy Studies Journal. The deadline for submission is the second Friday in September (9/13/2024). The winner will be announced in early November, and the selected essay will be published in our next issue in early 2025.

May 17, 2024May 17, 2024

Call for Applications: Seed Money Fellowships “Transformations and Eastern Europe” (Universität Wien)

Deadline: June 15, 2024

The Research Platform “Transformations and Eastern Europe” brings together researchers from different fields of history, cultural studies, social sciences and legal studies and it is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of transformation processes in Eastern Europe in the past and present. Together with the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), the research platform represents a space for innovative, interdisciplinary and international scientific thinking about transformation processes at the University of Vienna.

May 10, 2024May 10, 2024

Bobby R. Inman Award for Student Scholarship on Intelligence (UT Austin)

Deadline: June 30, 2024

Austin, Texas – The Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project of The University of Texas at Austin announces the 10th annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security. The winner of the “Inman Award” will receive a cash prize of $5,000, with two semifinalists each receiving a cash prize of $2,500. This competition is open to unpublished work by undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in degree programs at accredited U.S. higher education institutions during the 2023-24 academic year. The deadline for submitting papers is June 30, 2024.