Fellowships and Grants in East European Studies

[Olga Bukhina]

Fellowships and Grants in East European Studies 

Support is once again available from Title VIII for language study and
research related to all East European countries: 
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo/a, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro,
Poland,  Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

U.S. graduate students and scholars studying any of these countries are
welcome to apply.

Funding is provided by the U.S. Department of State under the Research
and Training for Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former
Soviet Union Act of 1983, as amended (Title VIII).

Dissertation fellowships:  For graduate students at U.S. universities
who have completed all requirements for the PhD except the dissertation
(ABDs)
*	research fellowships for use in Eastern Europe
*	writing fellowships for writing the dissertation in the United
States after research is complete.

Early-career postdoctoral fellowships:  For scholars before tenure,
including independent scholars. 

Language grants to institutions:  For U.S. institutions of higher
education to conduct intensive summer language courses at the beginning,
intermediate, and advanced-mastery levels. 

Language grants to individuals:  For attendance at intensive summer
language courses (priority given to graduate students seeking language
acquisition as a basic research tool).

Travel grants:  For travel to conferences to present research papers
(all academic ranks).

Conference grants:  To support conferences for presentation of
significant new research in East European Studies.
 
Request for proposals for research on heritage speakers:  Individuals or
collaborative teams are invited to propose socio-linguistic research on
communities of heritage speakers of an East European language in the
United States.  The project should culminate in an analytical paper and
a syllabus for an advanced-mastery course for heritage speakers. 

Further information (including deadlines) is available at
http://www.acls.org/programs/eesp. 

Olga Bukhina
American Council of Learned Societies
633 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017-6795
Tel.: (212) 6971505 x 130 
Fax: (212) 9498058 
E-mail: obukhina at acls.org 
www.acls.org 

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