FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH SUPPORT

THE COUNCIL ON EAST ASIAN STUDIES AT YALE UNIVERSITY (CEAS)

Each year the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University awards Summer Language Mini-Grants of up to $6,000 to help offset the costs of advanced language training in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, enabling Yale students to conduct research using primary source materials or to meet specific language requirements. The Council also offers Summer Travel & Research Grants of between $1,500 and $8,000, given primarily to support field research, or other forms of pre-dissertational preparation with a focus on China, Japan or Korea. For Yale students who need funds for a research year abroad, the Council offers Dissertation Research Grants which are designed to match the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale (MacMillan Center) Dissertation Research Fellowship. Yale University undergraduate and graduate students are also eligible to apply for the Charles Kao Fund Research Grants for summer research projects relating to East and Southeast Asia that focus primarily on technology transfer processes between and among East and Southeast Asian and Western countries.

The deadline for all 2012-2013 Council on East Asian Studies administered grants is Friday, February 8, 2013. All applications must be submitted ON-LINE through the Yale Student Grants & Fellowships Database.

The Council on East Asian Studies also receives and makes available information about internships and fellowships from non-Yale and foreign organizations. The Council posts such announcements on bulletin boards located outside its office on the third floor of Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue. Aside from research fellowship information, the Council also posts details of numerous language study and study abroad programs which are usually open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Students who wish to go abroad for the coming summer should arrange their travel plans well in advance, since competition for the limited funding that is available for these programs can be tough and most of these applications are due as early as February each year.

For more information on grant and fellowship opportunities at Yale University, please visit the Grants & Fellowships Website at http://studentgrants.yale.edu.