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April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

Expanded Funding for Online Language Study (Indiana University)

Deadline: May 8, 2020

To help students whose summer plans have fallen through, Indiana University is expanding its student support for online study in summer 2020.

The Title VIII graduate fellowship program now supports the online study of Russian 3-6, Azerbaijani, BCS 1-2, Estonian, Hungarian, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian 1-2, , Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek.

The AABS and BALSSI programs now support the online study of Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian 1-2 in BALSSI, the Baltic Studies Summer Institute, for undergraduates and graduates alike.

April 14, 2020April 17, 2020

Funding: Fellowships from NYU’s Jordan Center

Deadline: May 1, 2020

The NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia offers a variety of funding opportunities and residency programs to students and scholars throughout the year. Learn more about Spring 2020 deadlines below.

Note on Coronavirus: Current NYU policy prohibits university-funded foreign travel and all non-essential, in-person visits from both internationally-based and US-based individuals. We hope that this will not be the case in a few months once the situation has changed globally. Of course, our programs are all conditional upon NYU’s campus reopening in the Summer/Fall and programs such as ours being allowed to fund international travel and host international visitors. Please reach out to jordan.russia.center@nyu.edu with any questions or concerns.

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020

Funding: American Council Grants

Deadline: May 22, 2020

American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce a request for project proposals for the Central Asia University Partnerships Program (UniCEN). Funded by the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, UniCEN builds capacity for substantive international engagement between higher education institutions in the United States and Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan).

The current request for proposals for UniCEN grants will be awarded to U.S. university faculty members and administrators to establish partnerships or advance existing collaborations between U.S. and Uzbekistan higher education institutions.

March 18, 2020March 18, 2020

Fellowship for Politically-Engaged College Women

Deadline: April 27, 2020

IGNITE Fellows are changing the face of leadership in communities across America.

Every year IGNITE recruits a cohort of diverse and passionate women in communities across America and provides them with resources, training, and networks to flex their political power and mobilize women on their campuses and in their communities to become civically engaged. Fellows serve as ambassadors for IGNITE’s mission and vision and play a valuable role in our efforts to spread a national message that it is time for young women to step into political power.

Who are we looking for?

IGNITE is looking for Fellows from across the ideological spectrum who are deeply motivated, take initiative, have organizing experience on college campuses and in their communities and have a proven track record of building new initiatives and sustained programming. We are specifically looking for young women who have a history of serving their communities through volunteer activities, internships, public office, or other civic engagement activities. Strong candidates will demonstrate experience in organizing and coalition building, civic engagement and political leadership with a deep commitment to advancing equal rights for women.

March 12, 2020March 12, 2020

ASEEES Grants, Book Prizes

Deadline: April 1; April 15

NEW Call for Applications: ASEEES Summer Dissertation Writing Grants

ASEEES is delighted to announce the new Summer Dissertation Writing Grant program. We are able to offer a limited number of grants, with a maximum stipend of $6000, for graduate students at US universities for the purposes of summer dissertation writing on any aspect of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies in any discipline. The writing grant program is directed at PhD students at US universities who do not qualify for the ASEEES Dissertation Research Grant because they do not intend to conduct research in the region.

For more information and to apply see: www.aseees.org/programs/aseees-summer-dissertation

Please share the announcement with any student who may be interested in this new grant.

Application Deadline: April 15

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020

NEH Fellowships

Deadline: April 8, 2020

NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.

Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development.

https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/fellowships

March 10, 2020March 10, 2020

Einstein Fellowship

Deadline: May 15, 2020

Awarded by the Einstein Forum and the Daimler and Benz Foundation
The Einstein Forum and the Daimler and Benz Foundation are offering a fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, are also open to other, interdisciplinary approaches – following the example set by Albert Einstein.

The fellowship includes living accommodations for five to six months in the garden cottage of Einstein`s own summerhouse in Caputh, Brandenburg, only a short distance away from the universities and academic institutions of Potsdam and Berlin. The fellow will receive a stipend of EUR 10,000 and reimbursement of travel expenses.

March 4, 2020March 4, 2020

Fellowship on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

Deadline: May 15, 2020

Galina Starovoitova Fellowship on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

Please note: This fellowship is restricted to citizens of the Russian Federation who are residing in Russia at the time of application.

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/opportunity/galina-starovoitova-fellowship-human-rights-and-conflict-resolution-1?emci=858674e9-5f5d-ea11-a94c-00155d039e74&emdi=4fdf0584-705d-ea11-a94c-00155d039e74&ceid=207503

February 27, 2020February 27, 2020

Grad Program/Scholarships for Russian Language (University of Verona)

Deadline: March 31, 2020

At the University of Verona students can follow courses in English,
German, French, Spanish and RUSSIAN in an International Master’s
Degree Programme in Comparative European and non-European Languages
and Literatures.

The 2 scholarships are meant for non-EU citizens holding a foreign
academic degree and living outside the European union.

Applicants are asked to declare two languages (and their corresponding
literatures) they would like to study in Verona, and motivate their
choice.

The deadline is on March 31st, 2020.

The full call for application for pre-admission and information on the
requirements for admission and evaluation criteria are to be found at
this link:

https://www.univr.it/en/our-services/news/-/avviso-servizio/1890

February 24, 2020February 24, 2020

PhD Scholarship in Ukrainian Studies

Deadline: March 31, 2020

Location: Clayton campus, Melbourne

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: 3-year 3-month Fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: $29,000 tax-free (indexed plus allowances)

For scholarship procedures and conditions, please see: https://www.monash.edu/graduate-research/future-students/scholarships/scholarship-policy-and-procedures

The Faculty will provide the tuition fee scholarship and Single Overseas Health Cover (OSHC) for the successful international awardee.