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 late-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.
