Title VIII Fellowships
Competitively awarded Title VIII Fellowships will be available through SWSEEL to U.S. graduate students, established scholars, and area professionals to pursue their language and culture studies in Workshop languages including Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I & II, Czech, Dari I & II, Georgian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Mongolian, Pashto I & II, Polish, Romanian, Russian (Level 5 and higher), Tatar, Uyghur I & II, and Uzbek I & II.
Title VIII Fellowships provide up to $6,100 per SWSEEL student enrolled in a 10-credit course and up to $5,000 per SWSEEL student enrolled in a 6-credit course.
To be eligible, applicants must be U.S. citizens.
Applicants in Russian must have completed at least two years of formal study of the language; those in the languages of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus need no prior study to be eligible.
Graduate students must demonstrate they are in good academic standing.
All applicants must demonstrate commitment to continued study of or work related to the region of the language studied.
The application deadline for Fellowships is March 1. Decisions on Title VIII fellowships are made in early-April.
PLEASE NOTE: to minimize paperwork, only recipients of fellowships and alternates will receive formal notification. Fellowship assistance is available only to students in the 8-week session.
If you wish to apply for a Title VIII fellowship, you must check the appropriate box on the application.
Portable Title VIII Fellowships
Portable Title VIII Fellowships of up to $6000 are available for graduate students and scholars (who are US citizens) to pursue intermediate or advanced language study of Azerbaijani, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Dari, Georgian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Mongolian, Pashto, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Tajik, Tatar, Ukrainian, Uyghur, and Uzbek abroad in summer 2012.
Students are only eligible for language study at a level higher than that offered in SWSEEL this summer.
To apply, applicants should send an email to swseel@indiana.edu with the subject line, "Portable Title VIII Application." The application should contain 1) a description of the proposed study abroad program, the applicant’s previous language training and need for additional language study; 2) the name and, whenever possible, a link to the proposed program's website; 3) information about other funding for which the student has applied to support their overseas study on this program; and 4) a budget for the proposed study abroad. Two letters of reference should be sent separately to swseel@indiana.edu.
Applications are due by March 1, 2012 and decisions will be made by mid-March.
