Below you will find a list of fellowships and grants.

See your state and language-specific organization's webpages for more grants and scholarships.
See also our Study Abroad Language Scholarships list.
If you are interested in Grants or Scholarships for your students, see our Student section below.

FOR INSTITUTIONS

The Language Flagship programs of the National Security Education Program (NSEP) have been announced. See the Critical Languages page for details.

The Japan Foundation has announced its grants for 2009 - 2010. See the Critical Languages page for details. 

FOR TEACHERS

The Silk Roads: Early Globalizations and Chinese Cultural Identities 

The East-West Center is excited to offer is a 5-week Summer Residential Institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and hosted by the Asian Studies Development Program, a partnership between the East-West Center and University of Hawai’i.

This Institute will make use of the rich history and imaginaire of the Silk Roads as a way of examining how global interconnectedness shapes and is shaped by culture, focusing in particular on how China’s complex relationships with other cultures—mediated by both overland and oceanic “silk roads”—has been crucial to the emergence of distinctively Chinese cultures over the last two millennia.

• Program dates: May 24-June 25, 2010 in Honolulu, HI
  
• Application Deadline: March 2, 2010 (post-mark)
  
• NEH Stipend: Participants will receive a total stipend of $3900 to help meet costs associated with attending the Institute, including travel, housing (East-WestCenter guest house), meals, and required Institute texts.
  

Full program information and application procedures can be found on the website at http://eastwestcenter.org/?id=1268 

Global Exploration for Educators Organization summer travel programs

Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO) is a 501c3 non-profit organization that helps and encourages educators to travel abroad. GEEO hopes to make America more outward-looking by helping teachers travel and then giving them an effective way to share these experiences in their classrooms.

GEEO is now taking reservations for summer travel programs to India, Peru, Tunisia, Southern Africa (South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe) and China.

Educators can earn graduate school credit and professional development credit while seeing the world.  The trips are designed for teachers and include activities such as school visits and homestays that give participants authentic exposure to local culture. The trips are deeply discounted so as to be affordable to teachers.  GEEO also helps teachers find funding to subsidize the cost of the trips.

Detailed information about each trip, including itineraries, costs, travel dates, and more can be found at www.geeo.org. GEEO can also be reached 7 days a week, toll free at 1-877-600-0105 between 9AM-10PM EST. To sign-up for GEEO's listserv, please send an email to listserv@geeo.org with the subject line "subscribe."

Fulbright Teacher Exchange Opportunity 2010-2011

The Academy for Educational Development, the U.S. State Department, and iEARN-USA are offering two exciting opportunities for educators interested in spending a semester or a year abroad: the 2010-2011 Fulbright Teacher Classroom Exchange and the Distinguished Awards in Teaching programs.

The Fulbright Teacher Exchange program provides opportunities for K-12 teachers to partipate in direct one-to-one classroom exchanges with peers from other countries for a semester or an academic year. This year's participating countries include: Czech Republic, France, Ghana, Hungary, India, Mexico, Slovak REpublic, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Exchange teachers provide students with new perspectives while gaining an understanding for different cultures and educational models. Deadline for applying to the Fulbright Teacher Classroom Exchange program is October 15, 2009.

The Distinguished Awards program offers fellowships to highly accomplished U.S. and international teachers to receive a grant to study at a university, conduct research, teach classes and workshops, and develop a capstone project pertaining to their field of educational inquiry during a semester overseas. This year's participating countries include: Argentina, Finland, India, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, and the United States. Deadline for applying to the Distinguished Awards program is January 15, 2010. *Additional countries may be added prior to the January 15th deadline.

For application forms and more information on both programs, please visit www.fulbrightteacherexchange.org.

Study Abroad Language Scholarships

National Security Education Program: Boren Scholarships
http://www.iie.org/programs/nsep/default.htm

Austrian American Educational Commission Teaching Assistantship
http://www.fullbright.at

French Ministry of Education Teaching Assistantship
http://www.frenchculture.org/a_assistantship-program_195.cfm

Princeton in Asia Teaching Fellows
http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~pia/main/index.php?option=com_frontpage

Spanish Ministry of Education and Science North American Language and Culture Assistants
http://www.mec.es/exterior/usa/en/programs/us_assistants/default.shtml

Gilman International Scholarship Program
http://www.iie.org//programs/gilman/index.html

Freeman-Asia Program
http://www.iie.org/programs/Freeman-ASIA/

Bridging Scholarships for Study in Japan
http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/Bridging/scholarships.html

Morgan Stanley Scholarships for Study in Japan
http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/Bridging/Morgan.html

German Academic Exchange Service
http://www.daad.org/

National Security Internship
www.nationalsecurityinternship.com.

Search by country or field of study
www.studyabroadfunding.org

The Advanced Study of Khmer Study Abroad Program - funding from the US Dept. of Education, Fulbright-Hays and Group Projects
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/ask

The Belgian American Educational Foundation
http://www.baef.be/documents/fellowships-for-us-citizens/study-res-fellow.-for-us-citizen-.xml?lang=en

Global Studies Foundation
http://www.globalstudiesfoundation.org

Back to top

FOR STUDENTS

2010 US/Costa Rica: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Disability Rights Leadership Exchange Program
http://www.miusa.org/exchange/leadership/costarica10

Mobility International USA (MIUSA) is excited to offer a 16-day exchange program to Costa Rica with a focus on youth leadership and cultural perspectives on disability rights. Young adults with disabilities of diverse backgrounds from New York City, especially those who are first-time international travelers, are encouraged to apply.

The program takes place from June 16 to July 1, 2010 in San Jose, Costa Rica. The deadline to apply is March 21, 2010. More information, as well as the application can be found on the MIUSA website.

• Program dates: June 16 to July 1, 2010 in San Jose, Costa Rica
  
• Application Deadline: March 21, 2010

Critical Languages Research Analyst Program

The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has several unclassified open source analysis units in the Washington, DC area to conduct research related to national security issues and is looking for undergraduate and graduate student summer research analysts who can conduct native language research on the internet, apply social science research methods to identify social and political trends, and critically analyze and present information.

Students majoring in the following areas are encouraged to apply: Middle Eastern Studies, Persian Studies, South Asian Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Intelligence Studies, National Security Studies, Economics, Political Economy, Cultural Anthropology, Comparative Sociology, Demography, Defense Studies, Social Psychology, Public Policy, History, Political Islam, Nuclear Engineering/Physics, Computer Science/Engineering, Political Geography, Library Science, Geographic Information Systems and other science and technology fields.

Email: Doris Johnson for details.

• Application Deadline: February 19, 2010
  

Smithsonian Studies Abroad for High School Students to Italy, Spain and China 2010
http://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/studies_abroad/

Smithsonian's NEW summer sessions offer High School students, who have completed grade 9 or higher, an extraordinary opportunity to travel and learn in Italy, Spain or China! Students will participate in an enriching three week program that combines intensive language instruction with cultural studies and visits to top sites in the company of experts.

The Fulbright Program

Today, Fulbright is the most widely recognized and prestigious international exchange program in the world, supported for more than half a century by the American people through an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress and by the people of partner nations. The program—working with universities, schools, binational Fulbright commissions, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations and the private sector—actively seeks out individuals of achievement and potential who represent the full diversity of their respective societies and selects nominees through open, merit-based competitions.

http://fulbright.state.gov/

The Department of Education is now accepting applicants interested in graduate school study for the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program. Click here for more information.

The Spencer Foundation is now accepting doctoral candidate applicants for the 2010 Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education. Click here for more information.

The National Academy of Education (NAEd) is now accepting applicants for the 2010-2011 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for early-career scholars working in critical areas of educational scholarship. Click here for more information.

The Center for Applied Linguistics G. Richard Tucker Fellowship application for masters and doctoral students in language-related fields is now available.Deadline: April 14, 2010. Click here for more information.

• Deadlines vary with program and location

Back to top