ACLS EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES Fellowships & Language Training Grants Competitions

[Natalia Haimson]

ACLS East European Studies Fellowships & Language Training Grants
Competitions
Pending confirmation of funding, ACLS announces the following Fellowships
and Grants in East European Studies for scholars in the humanities and
social sciences pursuing research related to Albania, Bulgaria, Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, or
the successor states of the former Yugoslavia.  Proposals dealing with
Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, or the former Yugoslavia are particularly
encouraged.  All programs require US citizenship or permanent residence. For
more information about eligibility and selection criteria, please see:
http://www.acls.org/eeguide.htm <http://www.acls.org/eeguide.htm>
Applications concerned primarily with the Russian empire, the Soviet Union,
or its successor states should be directed to the Social Science Research
Council (810 Seventh Ave., N.Y., NY 10019) not to ACLS.
Professors are requested to alert their students to the availability of
these grants, especially the individual grants for summer language training.
Fellowships deadline: November 3, 2003.
Postdoctoral Research fellowships: Up to $25,000 for at least 6 consecutive
months research and writing on Eastern Europe, to be conducted in the US
except for brief visits to the area.  Fellowships are to be used between
July 1, 2004, and September 1, 2005.  Applicants must hold the Ph.D. degree
by the application deadline.  Grants are intended primarily as salary
replacement to provide time free for research and writing.
Dissertation fellowships: one-year grants, with a stipend of up to $17,000,
for dissertations on topics related to Eastern Europe. These fellowships are
intended to support dissertation writing in the US after research is
complete, although short visits to Eastern Europe may be proposed.
Fellowships are to be used beginning June 2004.
Language Training Grants deadline: January15, 2004.
East European Language Training Grants to Institutions: Grants of up to
$10,000 will be available to US institutions to support intensive summer
2005 instruction at the beginning or intermediate level in Albanian,
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, or Slovene.
Funding also will be available for courses to be held in summer 2004 in
Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian.
East European Language Training Grants to Individuals: Language training
grants up to $2,500 will be made to individuals for beginning or
intermediate study at intensive summer 2004 courses in East European
languages (Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian,
Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, or
Slovene.)
Applications for fellowships must be submitted through the ACLS Online
Fellowship Application system (OFA). OFA is accessible at
http://ofa.acls.org <http://ofa.acls.org>  or through the Fellowship and
Grant Programs section of the ACLS Web site at http://www.acls.org
<http://www.acls.org>
Individual Language Training Grant application forms are available on the
ACLS Web site. (If you are unable to print the application from our Web
site, paper application forms may be requested by mail: Office of
Fellowships and Grants, ACLS, 633 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017-6795.)
Institutional Grant guidelines are available by request from Natalia Haimson
<nhaimson at acls.org>


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