Fellowships for Dissertation Research/Writing in Southeast European Studies
Currently enrolled doctoral students who will have completed all requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation by June may apply for one-year support to complete the dissertation. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States.
Pending confirmation of funding, the American Council of Learned Societies will offer support for writing dissertations in East European studies in all disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences.
Funding is offered for two types of support:
- Research Fellowships for use in Eastern Europe to conduct fieldwork or archival investigations.
- Writing Fellowships for use in the United States, after all research is complete, to write the dissertation.
Applications must include the following:
- Completed application form
- Proposal (no more than five pages, double spaced, in Times New Roman 11-point font)
- Up to two additional pages of images, musical scores, or other similar supporting non-text materials [optional]
- Bibliography (no more than two pages)
- Publications list (no more than two pages) [optional]
- Three reference letters
- Institutional statement
- Language evaluation form(s)
As a condition of the award, the applicant's home university will be required (consistent with its policies and regulations) to provide or to waive normal academic year tuition payments or to provide alternative cost-sharing support.
Applications should be for work on Eastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo/a, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Applicants may propose comparative work considering more than one country of Eastern Europe or relating East European societies of those of other parts of the world.