Scholarships/Grants
State Department sponsored summer program for SA languages
The State Department sponsored programs to study various critical languages through the overseas research centers of CAORC are now open for application.Languages include: Bangla, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu for South Asia (AIIS, AIBS) and Arabic and Turkish for our Middle Eastern colleagues.
Please go to: http://www.caorc.org and see the bold faced announcement on the left hand side of the page. Or go directly to http://www.caorc.org/language.
Undergraduates, MA, and PhD students are all eligible as long as they are US citizens. ALL EXPENSES ARE PAID for those accepted into the programs.
Tony K. Stewart
Professor of South Asian Religions
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
Campus Box 8103
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8103 USA
ph. 919.515.6335
email tony_stewart@ncsu.edu
AISLS: dissertation planning grants for Sri Lanka
AISLS dissertation planning grants are designed to enable graduate students intending to do dissertation research in Sri Lanka to make a pre-dissertation visit to Sri Lanka to investigate the feasibility of their topic, to sharpen their research design, or to make other practical arrangements for future research. Applicants will normally be enrolled in a PhD program (or equivalent) in a US university. There are no citizenship requirements.Recipients receive $275/week, for a period of up to eight weeks, and one round-trip airfare from the U.S. Applicants should normally plan to spend at least six weeks in Sri Lanka. Applicants whose research will also require spending time in libraries or archives in a third country may request funds for up to two weeks for this purpose, beyond the time spent in Sri Lanka.
This year's competition's deadline is 3 December 2007.
Complete information, including application materials, is available at www.aisls.org
AISLS: fellowships for research in Sri Lanka
The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies offers fellowships for 2 to 9 months research in Sri Lanka. No previous experience in Sri Lanka is required. Fellows receive $2,100/month, one round-trip airfare from the U.S., and a limited research budget. Fellows must have a Ph.D. or equivalent academic degree before beginning their research. Only U.S. citizens are eligible. (Funding is provided by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, US State Department, under authorizing legislation that restricts funding to U.S. citizens.)Proposals in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, are welcome. Proposals in other areas that contribute to the understanding of Sri Lankan history, culture, or society are also invited. Research may be spread out over more than one visit to Sri Lanka, but only one airfare will be reimbursed. Fellowships must be completed by the end of August 2009.
This year's competition's deadline is 3 December 2007.
Complete information, including application materials, is available at www.aisls.org
