The Office of Postsecondary Education has released the applications and guidelines for the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program and the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) Fellowship Program today. The deadline to enter for both programs is December 1, 2009.
Here is a quick overview of each program:
DDRA:
The Fulbright-Hays Fellowship program provides opportunities for doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States.
Project Focus
Selected Fellows will complete a research project that focuses on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, East Central Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories).
*Note: applications that propose projects focused on Western Europe are not eligible.
Program Priorities
The Office of Postsecondary Education places an emphasis on research projects that focus on any of the 78 languages deemed critical on the U.S. Department of Education’s list of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs).
The languages are:
Akan (Twi-Fante), Albanian, Amharic, Arabic (all dialects), Armenian, Azeri (Azerbaijani), Balochi, Bamanakan (Bamana, Bambara, Mandikan, Mandingo, Maninka, Dyula), Belarusian, Bengali (Bangla), Berber (all languages), Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cebuano (Visayan), Chechen, Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Gan), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Min), Chinese (Wu), Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Georgian, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew (Modern), Hindi, Igbo, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Khmer (Cambodian), Kirghiz, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kurdish (Sorani), Lao, Malay (Bahasa Melayu or Malaysian), Malayalam, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Oromo, Panjabi, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese (all varieties), Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala (Sinhalese), Somali, Swahili, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrigna, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur/Uigur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu.
Funding
Estimated Range of Fellowship Awards: $15,000–$60,000.
Estimated Average Size of Fellowship Awards: $40,000.
Estimated Number of Fellowship Awards: 142.
Project Dates
The institutional project period is 18 months beginning July 1, 2010. Students may request funding for a period of no less than three months and no more than twelve months.
Application
To obtain an application, you can contact Carla White at the following:
Carla White, International Education Programs Service, U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K Street, NW, room 6000, Washington, DC 20006–8521. Telephone: (202) 502–7700 or by e-mail: carla.white@ed.gov.
Application Requirements
-The student applicant narrative must be no more than 10 pages and the bibliography to no more than two pages long.
-Double space, 12-inch font, 1-inch margins
Applicants may single space all text in charts, tables, figures, graphs, titles, headings, footnotes, endnotes, quotations, bibliography, and captions and use 10-point font.
*Note: However, these items are considered part of the narrative and counted within the 10-page limit.
-The page limits only apply to the application narrative and bibliography. The page limits do not apply to the Application for Federal Assistance face sheet (SF 424); the supplemental information form required by the Department of Education; and the assurances and certification. However, student applicants must include their complete responses to the selection criteria in the application narrative.
-Those selecting applications will reject a student if the narrative exceeds the page limits.
FRA:
The Fulbright- Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program provides opportunities to faculty of institutions of higher education (IHEs) to engage in research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies.
Project Focus
The research project that focuses on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, East Central Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories). Applications that propose projects focused on Western Europe are not eligible.
Projects should also focus on any of the seventy-eight (78) languages deemed critical on the U.S. Department of Education’s list of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) See list above.
The Office of Postsecondary Education also places an emphasis on applicants researching on one of the following fields or topics: Environmental Science, Ecology, Climate Studies, Development Studies, Economics, Public Health, Education, or Political Science.
Funding
Estimated Range of Fellowship Awards: $25,000–$115,000.
Estimated Average Size of Fellowship Awards: $70,000.
Estimated Number of Fellowship Awards: 20.
Program Dates
The project period is 18 months beginning July 1, 2010. Faculty may request funding for a period of no less than three months and no more than twelve months.
Application
See information regarding obtaining an application for the DDRA program.
Links
To see the full text of each program included in the Federal Register follow these links:
DDRA: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-23897.pdf
FRA: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-23898.pdf
