Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowships
The Council for European Studies invites eligible graduate students to apply for the 2012 CES Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowships. Each fellowship includes a $4,000 stipend, travel support for attending and presenting at the CES International Conference for Europeanists, and the opportunity to publish in Perspectives on Europe, a bi-yearly journal of the Council for European Studies. Specifically, the Council seeks applicants for the following:
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Mellon-CES Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowships - Twenty (20) Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowships for graduate students working on general topics in European Studies. (Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.)
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SAE-CES Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship - One (1) Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship for a graduate student working with the discipline of Anthropology on a topic in European Studies. (Funded by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.)
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Eligibility:
CES Pre-Dissertation Fellowships are intended to fund a student’s first major research project in Europe, thus, graduate students who have already engaged in extensive field work and study in Europe are not eligible. Likewise, applicants must be in the early, exploratory stage of their research; late-stage ABD students are not eligible. Also, applicants are expected to have already finished the majority of their doctoral coursework and must be currently enrolled in a doctoral program at a university that is a member of the Council for European Studies’ Academic Consortium. Students whose universities are not currently members of the CES consortium are welcome to apply, and every effort will be made to enroll the institution in the CES member consortium and, thus, establish the student's eligibility.
Deadlines:
Application period opens October 1, 2011. Applications are due (along with all supporting materials) on or before February 1, 2012.
To Apply:
Submit the CES Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Application Form and return three (3) completed Faculty Recommendation Forms. Also, you must submit a Language Competency Form for every language in which you will require functional knowledge to complete your proposed research. All materials are due into to CES by midnight February 1, 2012. A complete application will include all five of these forms.
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