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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.

April 26, 2024April 26, 2024

MA in Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Kansas (Invitation for Graduate Students from Ukraine)

Deadline: May 24, 2024

The Department of Slavic, German, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas invites graduate students from Ukraine to apply for the two-year MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures, with the possibility of focusing either on Slavic linguistics and literatures/cultures, or on Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies. Within the latter broad area studies degree, students may choose to focus on a particular country (for ex., Ukraine) and/or a particular area of interest, such as history, political science, literature and culture, or global and international studies.

April 26, 2024April 26, 2024

Bracewell Travelling Scholarship Open for 2024-25

Deadline: May 31, 2024

For current PhD students from eastern, central or southeastern Europe who wish to spend a term at UCL-SSEES.

The Bracewell Travelling Scholarship is funded by a gift from SSEES Emeritus Professor of History Wendy Bracewell, whose research examines South Slav history, and travel writing in and about eastern Europe. The Scholarship honours the long tradition of mutual curiosity between the UK and eastern, central and southeastern Europe by supporting PhD students from the SSEES region (excluding Germany and Russia) who wish to spend up to a term at UCL working with SSEES academics, pursuing their own research and contributing as appropriate to the intellectual life of the School. The award will cover tuition fee costs for one term, at either EU or international fee rates, plus a living cost stipend of £5,000.

April 19, 2024April 19, 2024

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Essay Prize Competition (Midwest Slavic Association, ASEEES)

Deadline: May 1, 2024

2024 Midwest Slavic Association Student Essay Prize Competition

The Midwest Slavic Association, with support from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), is now accepting submissions for its annual essay prize competition for undergraduate and graduate students. Students can submit a paper on any topic related to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies to the Midwest Slavic Association for consideration. The best undergraduate paper received will win a one-year membership to ASEEES, and the graduate winner will receive a one-year membership to ASEEES, as well as then being considered for the ASEEES Graduate Student Essay Prize national level competition. The graduate winner of the ASEEES Student Essay Prize at the national level wins travel, lodging, and registration for the Annual ASEEES Convention and membership for the following year. The prize is presented during the awards presentation at the Annual Convention.