All applicants must register through the Yale Student Grants & Fellowships database.

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The MacMillan Center Dissertation Research Grants provide funds to Ph.D. candidates for research on their doctoral dissertations. Grants are for research generally outside the United States and are available to students who have completed all pre-dissertation work before the academic year of the award. The approved dissertation research must address international relations, history or the social sciences. Awards will contribute to the cost of travel, research, and living expenses consistent with the standard of living in the host country. Awards generally range from $2,000 to $15,000. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 22, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: The MacMillan Center, Room 306, Luce Hall, 436-4203

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 22, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: The MacMillan Center, Room 306, Luce Hall, 436-4203

The Program in Agrarian Studies has some limited funds available to foster interdisciplinary work in any field on agrarian themes. Support is available on a competitive basis. Grants are available for preliminary on-site planning of research, supplementary research, and institutional reciprocity. Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate degree program in the Yale Graduate School or a Yale professional school. For detailed information, visit the Program’s website at www.yale.edu/agrarianstudies/real/gradaid.html.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Monday, February 25, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Program in Agrarian Studies
77 Trumbull Street, 432-9833

The Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale provides summer travel grants for graduate and professional student projects involving applied research or internships overseas. Projects must focus clearly on the intersection of at least two of the following fields: international law, international business or management, or international affairs and public policy. Grants are administered by the MacMillan Center. The Coca-Cola World Fund selection committee is comprised of representatives of the MacMillan Center, the Law School, and the School of Management. Awards generally range from $500 to $6,000. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 22, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: The MacMillan Center, Room 306, Luce Hall, 436-4203

Dreyfus Fellowships are for Yale graduate and undergraduate students who are children and grandchildren of U.S. Foreign Service Officers. Preference is given to students whose studies focus on international affairs. Fellowships are provided by an endowment created from a bequest of the late Ambassador Louis G. Dreyfus, Jr. that is administered directly by the Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired (DACOR) - Bacon House Foundation. The MacMillan Center serves as an on-campus liaison. Awards range from $5,000 to $10,000.

There is no restriction as to field of study, but for graduate and professional school applicants, if there are many applicants, preference will be given to students in a field related to foreign affairs and for study toward a master's degree.

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DEADLINE: March 14, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: DACOR-Bacon House Foundation
1801 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 682-0500 x17; (800) 344-9127
www.dacorbacon.org/DBHF/Fellowships.htm

For more information call Sherry Barndollar Rock of the DACOR Bacon House Foundation
at (202) 682-0500 x.17; (800) 344-9127 or e-mail prog.coord@dacorbacon.org.

East Asian Studies Summer Language Mini-Grants support the summer language study of Japanese, Chinese and Korean. Master’s students, Ph.D. students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and graduate students in the professional schools are eligible. Grants will range from $1,500 to $6,000 and may be applied to tuition, room and board at summer language programs, as well as expenses in hiring tutors for specialized, advanced language training. Priority is given to students who must undertake summer language study to meet specific degree requirements. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 15, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Council on East Asian Studies
Room 320, Luce Hall, 432-3426

East Asian Studies Summer Travel and Research Grants support graduate student summer field research or other forms of pre-dissertation preparation in East Asia (China, Japan and Korea). Master’s students, Ph.D. students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and graduate students in the professional schools are eligible. Grants range from $1,500 to $8,000 and can be applied to travel, room and board, and other legitimate research expenses. Priority will be given to students with demonstrated long-term academic commitment to East Asia, or those who need first hand exposure to Asia to complete a course of academic study. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 15, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Council on East Asian Studies
Room 320, Luce Hall, 432-3426

East Asian Studies Dissertation Research Grants provide aid to Ph.D. students expecting to engage in research for their doctoral dissertations during the next academic year. The approved dissertation research must focus primarily on China, Japan, or Korea. The competition is open to all disciplines in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Applications will be considered from registered graduate students who have completed, or will complete, all pre-dissertation work before the next academic year. Because these grants are usually supplementary to support from the MacMillan Center or outside resources, the awards normally will not exceed $7,000. Students who have applied to other sources of funds (both within Yale and at the national level) and have been turned down will be eligible for a maximum grant of $15,000. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 15, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Council on East Asian Studies
Room 320, Luce Hall, 432-3426

The Council on European Studies invites applications for up to three fellowships for Ph.D. students to support language training in a European language during the summer of 2008. Awards of up to $3,000 are available and preference will be given to Ph.D. candidates in literature departments or those pursuing area studies dissertation research. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 29, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: European Studies Council, Room 242, Luce Hall, 432-3423

The European Union Studies Program invites applications from graduate and undergraduate students whose work or research involves the European Union or some aspect of European integration. Grants are available for Ph.D. candidates who wish either to determine the feasibility of a dissertation topic or conduct research on that topic. Grants are also available to ERS and IR Master’s students at the end of their first year of study. Grants of up to $3,000 are available to undergraduates who wish to conduct research or participate in an EU internship during the summer before the junior or senior year. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 29, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: European Studies Council, Room 242, Luce Hall, 432-3423

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships are funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Higher Education Act, Title VI. Fellowships are available to graduate and professional school students whose academic work includes foreign language study and whose career plans include teaching, public service or business related to African Studies, European Studies, Middle East Studies, or Latin American Studies. The eligible languages for each competition are announced on the application. FLAS fellowships are available for the summer and for the academic year. Only U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. are eligible to apply. View past recipients.

Academic year fellowships are for intermediate or advanced language study at Yale. Academic year fellowships support full tuition and provide a stipend.

Summer fellowships are awarded for intensive language study.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 22, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: The MacMillan Center, Room 306, Luce Hall, 436-4203

Fox International Fellowship Program supports research exchanges between Yale and the Free University of Berlin, Moscow State University, Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University, The University of Tokyo Graduate School, Fudan University in Shanghai, PRC, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, El Colegio de Mexico, Jawarhalal Nehru University in Delhi, Bogazici University in Istanbul, Tel Aviv University, and Cape Town Univeristy for graduating seniors, graduate and professional school students conducting independent research on topics related to economics, political science, international relations, law, business and finance, environmental policy, or contemporary history. All fellowships provide expenses for airfare and housing, a stipend for living expenses, as well as some in-country travel related to research. Priority is for a full academic year, although single term awards are possible. View alumni.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 22, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: The MacMillan Center, Room 306, Luce Hall, 436-4203

The Ganzfried Family Travel Fellowship provides support for undergraduate and graduate students on all subjects related to communal and religious tolerance and understanding, security and cooperation, natural and economic resources, environmental, scientific and technological collaboration and development, communication, culture, gender and family in Israel or for academic work elsewhere in the field of Jewish studies. Amounts can vary up to $2,500. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Monday March 3, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Middle East Studies Council, Room 232, Luce Hall, 432-5596

Graduate Institute of International Studies/Geneva-Yale Exchange. The International Affairs Council at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale invites Masterís and PhD students to participate in an exchange with the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

Successful applicants will spend one semester at the Graduate Institute of International Studies taking classes for credit or conducting research. Highest priority will be given in the following order: (1) International Relations MA students; (2) other MA students in programs administered by the MacMillan Center; (3) PhD students. Proficiency in French is recommended, but not required.

The exchange is not funded and applicants will be expected to cover all of the costs. Successful applicants will be eligible to apply for student loans to cover the costs of this exchange.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Monday, March 3, 2008
Submit a completed application to: Fellowships Coordinator, The MacMillan Center, Room 306, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, P.O. Box 208206, New Haven, CT 06520-8206. For more information contact Larisa Satara at larisa.satara@yale.edu.

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at The MacMillan Center invites applications for the Summer 2008 Graduate Research Fellowships competition. The general purpose of the fellowships is to support research projects on slavery, resistance, abolition, or their legacies. Projects may focus on historical or contemporary issues involving the United States or international regions. Fellowships are available for research in the United States and internationally. Fellowships up to $3,000 will be awarded for relevant research expenses to current Yale graduate students at both the Masters and Doctoral levels. Applications from graduate students from the Yale professional schools will also be considered.

Awardees of the fellowship are expected to submit a one- to two-page report of their research by October 1, 2008. In addition, awardees may be asked to offer a seminar or presentation of their research results upon their return to the Yale campus. Any publication or public presentations resulting from the awardees' projects should acknowledge support of the Gilder Lehrman Center. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Monday, February 25, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Room 332, Luce Hall, 432-3339

International Relations Summer Travel Grants are available to students in the MA program in International Relations. Grants of up to $3,500 are available to support unpaid internships. Priority will be given to unpaid internships abroad (but not in the recipient's home country). Summer research projects involving international travel may also be supported. For more information or an application, contact Felicia Spencer or Cheryl Doss. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: To be determined
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: International Affairs Council
Room 210, Luce Hall, 432-6253

The Charles Kao Fund supports grants to students of Yale College (including graduating seniors), graduate students in M.A. and Ph.D. programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and graduate students in the professional schools for summer research in East and Southeast Asia. In general, applications from international students proposing research projects in their country or origin are ineligible.

Research should focus on the impact of technology transfer processes between Asia and the West and/or among East and Southeast Asia, and the social, cultural, and political transformations in these regions. Grant requests of up to $5,000 to support field research, summer internships or other creative projects in Asia will be entertained. Priority will be given to students with demonstrated long-term academic commitment to and professional preparation for work in East or Southeast Asia, who have already acquired the necessary level of language proficiency to complete their proposed research work, or who need substantial first-hand exposure to Asia to complete a course of academic study. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: To be determined
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Council on East Asian Studies
Room 320, Luce Hall, 432-3426

The European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center invites applications for the 2008 Keggi-Berzins Fellowships for Baltic Studies. Prizes of up to $1,500 will be awarded to current Yale undergraduates and graduate students for research or language study in or about a Baltic country in the summer of 2008.

Pre-dissertation and dissertation grants are available for PhD candidates who wish either to determine the feasibility of a dissertation topic or conduct research on that topic. Grants are also available to ES and IR Master's students at the end of their first year of study. Students in the professional schools are also eligible to apply. Grants are available to undergraduates who wish to conduct research or work in an internship related to Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania during the summer before the junior or senior year. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00 PM on Friday, February 29, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Council on European Studies
Room 242, Luce Hall, 432-3423

The Latin American and Iberian Studies Travel Grant is open to Junior undergraduates and graduate students who plan to conduct research or study abroad in Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal or Spain.  Not applicable for language training, internships or service projects. Awards are typically $500-$750, and are intended to help defray travel costs only.  Because of very limited funding available, applicants are encouraged to seek additional funding or matching grants. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 15, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies
Room 342, Luce Hall, 432-3422

The Georg Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy invites applications from graduate and undergraduate students whose work focuses on international political economy. Dissertation funds are available for Ph.D. candidates for research on approved dissertation topics. Funds are also available for senior essay support for undergraduates whose essays will focus on some aspect of comparative or international political economy, and for travel fellowships for undergraduates at any level to explore some aspect of the field. The latter may be used to support an internship or a research project. Grants range from $500 to $3000. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00 PM on Monday, February 25, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Leitner Program Administrator, Room 311, Luce Hall, 432-3431

Richard U. Light Fellowship Program provides fellowships for the study of Chinese, Korean or Japanese languages at selected sites in East Asia for all registered Yale students including undergraduates, graduating seniors, graduate and professional students. Fellowships provide full funding for travel, tuition, room and board, and health insurance for a single term, a full year, a summer program, or a combination of those periods. Preference is given for the academic year or terms of study longer than summer. Annual spring/fall competitions, generally January and October. View past recipients.

DEADLINEs: To be determined
(for Fall, Summer, or Academic Year)
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Office of International Education and Fellowship Programs
55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd Floor, 432-8675

Lindsay Fellowship for Research in Africa supports grants to graduate and professional students for summer research in order to increase understanding of Africa among Yale students and faculty. Highest priority will be given in the following order: (1) graduate and professional school students; (2) junior faculty. Only those returning to Yale in the semester following the award are eligible to receive an award. One or more fellowships of up to $3,000 will be awarded for summer travel and field work expenses in Africa for relevant research, study projects, internships or conferences (paper presentation at conference required). For more information and an application, please visit the web at www.yale.edu/macmillan/african. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Thursday, February 28, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: African Studies Council
Room 142, Luce Hall, 432-3436

Stavros Niarchos Language Study Fellowships. The Hellenic Studies Program of the European Studies Council invites applications for modern Greek language study fellowships in approved programs at institutions in Greece (the list of approved sites is available at the European Studies Council, contact George Syrimis). The fellowships will provide full funding including round trip transportation, tuition, room and board, a book allowance and incidentals for Yale students of exceptional promise to study the modern Greek language. Fellowships may be for a summer and semester combination or for a full year. Undergraduates as well as graduate and professional students are eligible to apply. These grants are made possible by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation which supports the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 29, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: European Studies Council, Room 242, Luce Hall, 432-3423

Stavros Niarchos Research Fellowship. Niarchos Research Fellowship Competition. Graduate, professional and undergraduate students whose work focuses on Post-Antiquity Greece or Post-Antiquity Greece and its larger interactions with its neighbors in the European and Balkan regions and beyond are welcome to apply. Pre-dissertation funds are available for Ph.D. candidates to prepare for dissertation research and dissertation funds are also available. Funds are also available for undergraduates at any level to apply for summer support for a research project to explore some aspect of Post-Antiquity Greece. Graduate student grants ranging from $4-8,000 each may be for summer or longer terms. Undergraduate grants averaging $4,000 are designated for summer only.View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 29, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: European Studies Council, Room 242, Luce Hall, 432-3423

Stavros Niarchos Student Research Grant at the Gennadeios Library. The Hellenic Studies Program of the European Studies Council invites applications to the 2008-2009 Stavros Niarchos Student Research Grant at the Gennadeios Library. Graduate, professional and undergraduate students from Yale University, whose work focuses on post-Antiquity or modern Greece and its larger interactions with its neighbors in the European and Balkan regions and beyond, are welcome to apply. The research project must make use of the Gennadeios Library holdings and commit to a period of six weeks. The fellowship will provide funding for round trip transportation, room and board, a book allowance and incidentals for Yale students of exceptional promise. The grant is made possible by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, which supports the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale. View past recipients.

For more information about the Gennadeios Library please visit www.ascsa.edu.gr/gennadius/

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, February 29, 2008
INFORMATION/APPLICATION: European Studies Council, Room 242, Luce Hall, 432-3423

Henry Hart Rice Foreign Residence Fellowships provide support for Yale students in the humanities and social sciences to conduct individual study and research for 9 to 12 months while in residence in a foreign country that is experiencing strained relations with the United States. At present, eligible are countries of Africa, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe that are not members of the EU, Russia, Latin America, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia as well as the People’s Republic of China. Excluded are most of the traditional friends and allies of the U.S., including Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and countries that are members of the EU. Eligible are undergraduates who have completed at least two years of course work, including graduating seniors; graduate and professional students who have permission from their Director of Graduate Studies to take a year’s leave of absence for this purpose; and graduate students at the conclusion of a terminal master’s program. The fellowship stipend may cover most or all travel and living expenses in the host country; generally one award is made.

DEADLINE: 12:00 Noon, Friday, February 8, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Office of International Education and Fellowship Programs
55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd Floor, 432-8685

Rustgi Fellowships. The South Asian Studies Council offers Rustgi fellowships for summer research grants to students with a demonstrated commitment to the field of South Asian studies.  The fellowship is made possible through  a gift from Anil Rustgi (Yale ’80), Vinod Rustgi (Yale ’75) and his wife, Eileen Boyle Rustgi (Yale ’77) in honor of their parents, Moti Lal and Kamla Rustgi.  The general purpose of these grants is to increase understanding of the region among Yale students. Although graduate students may apply, preference will be given to undergraduates. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Friday, March 7, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: South Asian Studies Council, Room 309, Luce Hall, 432-5596

Southeast Asia Studies offers a limited number of research-related grants to students with a demonstrated commitment to the field of Southeast Asia studies. Grants support language training, masters thesis summer research, pre-dissertation field research, and small supplements that may be required to bring a research project to fruition. Any graduate or undergraduate student currently enrolled at Yale may apply. Awards up to $3,000. For additional information see www.yale.edu/seas/studentgrants.htm. View past recipients.

DEADLINE: 4:00pm, Monday, February 25, 2008
APPLICATION/INFORMATION: Southeast Asia Studies Council
Room 311, Luce Hall, 432-3431