Scholarship to study Indonesian language and culture

The Darmasiswa Indonesian Scholarship program offers a one-year full ride scholarship to study Indonesian language (Bahasa Indonesia) and culture (art, music, traditional medicine, culinary, tourism) at an Indonesian university. The scholarship pays your tuition and living expenses.

This is an amazing opportunity for someone planning to apply to graduate school in anthropology because it would give you a linguistic and cultural experience and social networks in an area that has long been of deep interest in anthropology.

The application is complicated (requires health certificate, academic transcript, resume, photos) and must be completed and sent to the Indonesian consulate in Chicago by Feb. 28, so if you are interested I strongly urge you to stop by the department in 120 Upham to pick up an application and discuss the opportunity!

Scholarship: Archaeology

Historically Underrepresented Groups Scholarship (HUGS)

The Society for American Archaeology is pleased to announce the first cycle of applications and awards for the Historically Underrepresented Groups Scholarship (HUGS). The SAA HUGS provides funding for minority archaeology students to attend archaeological field schools and thus prepare for careers in archaeology and heritage management.

Few college financial aid packages cover summer lab or field training, making this an out-of-pocket expense. SAA is committed to assisting individuals realize their goals of entering careers in archaeology by offering two types of field school scholarships.

1. HUGS Award: up to $5000 to cover program costs and other expenses incurred through participation in archaeological field training. This scholarship cannot be applied to a field school run by the Institute for Field Research (IFR). See the HUGS-IFR Award below.

2. HUGS-IFR Award: This scholarship is provided by the Institute of Field Research (IFR) and SAA.

The IFR will cover the tuition up to $5000 for attending an IFR field school. Because SAA recognizes the challenges of additional costs associated with attending a field school (airfare, basic field supplies, etc.), it will provide up to $3000 for such expenses incurred to attending the IFR field school.

Eligibility

1. Members of historically underrepresented minorities in archaeology, including but not restricted to African American, Hispanic/Latino, Asian American, and other non-European minorities.*
2. Citizens or legal residents of the U.S. or Canada.
3. Enrolled in a regionally accredited university in the United States or Canada, or if outside the United States and Canada, a university with equivalent accreditation.

* Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders are encouraged to apply to the Native American Scholarships program for parallel funding opportunities.

The HUGS scholarship selection is overseen by SAA’s Minority Scholarships Committee.
Applications can be downloaded from the SAA HUGS Webpage.

Application Deadline: Complete applications, including letters of support, must be received by March 15, 2015.

Scholarship for Summer Field School

Off the Beaten Track, a summer field school program that we have featured before, has announced a scholarship for their summer 2015 summer field school in Malta:

 

10th Edition of the Field School for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Gozo (Malta), Europe
June 10, 2015 – June 29
July 4, 2015 – July 23
July 28, 2015 – August 16

CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP PROPOSALS

This call is aimed at budding researchers with a creative and open mind towards the challenges of applied research. We offer a unique learning opportunity in a multidisciplinary research project on the isle of Gozo, Malta. Expeditions and the University of Leuven hand out eight scholarships that cover part or all of the tuition fee for the 2015 Malta Summer School. Scholarships are granted on a competitive basis, based on a research proposal.

More information on the project can be find on: www.anthropologyfieldschool.org

Eligible candidates

· Undergraduate and graduate students
· PhD students
· Everyone with a genuine interest in anthropology
· Previous participants of the project

Selection is NOT based on academic merit, originality or complexity. We aim for enthusiasm, dedication and creativity. In the past years even students who were not enrolled in an anthropology program got scholarships for the project.

Selection Procedure

Candidates are invited to propose two or more creative research concepts that can be performed during the summer school. So the research topic has to relate to something on which you can do fieldwork on Malta, and preferably Gozo.

From these proposals, the academic board of Expeditions will select 15 different candidates to work out a more detailed research plan within a deadline of two months (February/March). The three best research proposals will be granted a full scholarship. The next five runners-up will be granted a scholarship of 1,700.00? (about 60% of the total tuition) which will be deducted from their tuition fee.

In the first stage:
· All submissions will compete equally. You are allowed to send in as much research ideas as you like.
· Concepts should be rudimentarily explained.
· Applicants are asked to focus on creativity and an initial-stage argumentation on why the research is valuable.

After initial acceptance:
· Applicants will develop further one selected proposal under assistance of our tutors (via e-mail or skype).
· Elaboration on feasibility, methodology and research layouts should fleshed out in this stage only
· Final research proposals to be submitted within two months after initial acceptance

How to apply?

· Send us 2 or more research concepts (but at least two!).
· 150-250 words per research concept.
· Submitting can only be done through the form on our website.
· The deadline for submissions is January 25th, 2015.

Please note that the number of students accepted in the program is limited. Scholarships will be granted only after the completion of the selection procedure, while registration is open to non-scholarship participants. In case you wish to join the project even if you don’t get the scholarship, we advise to register through the regular procedure as early as possible since non-scholarship slots are usually filled by the end of December.

Official certificate when completing.
Leading professor: Marc Vanlangendonck
Marc.Vanlangendonck@wet.kuleuven.be
University of Leuven and IMMRC

Boren Scholarships

Ever feel like Study Abroad only goes to select places around the world? Check out this scholarship and fellowship program:

https://borenawards.org/boren_scholarship/

“Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are excluded.

Boren Scholars represent a variety of academic backgrounds, but all are interested in studying less commonly taught languages, including but not limited to Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili.

Boren Scholarships are funded by the National Security Education Program (NSEP), which focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to U.S. national security. Applicants should identify how their study abroad program, as well as their future academic and career goals, will contribute to U.S. national security, broadly defined.  NSEP draws on a broad definition of national security, recognizing that the scope of national security has expanded to include not only the traditional concerns of protecting and promoting American well-being, but also the challenges of global society, including sustainable development, environmental degradation, global disease and hunger, population growth and migration, and economic competitiveness.”

Critical Language Scholarship Program

The Critical Language Scholarship Program offers scholarships for intensive language training:

http://www.clscholarship.org/about

“The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a fully-funded overseas language and cultural immersion program for American undergraduate and graduate students. With the goal of broadening the base of Americans studying and mastering critical languages and building relationships between the people of the United States and other countries, CLS provides study opportunities to a diverse range of students from across the United States at every level of language learning.

Most languages offered by the CLS Program do not require applicants to have any experience studying critical languages. The CLS Program seeks participants with diverse interests, and from a wide range of fields of study and career paths, with the purpose of representing the full diversity of professional, regional, cultural and academic backgrounds in the United States. Participants are selected based on their commitment to language learning and plans to apply their language skills to their future academic or professional pursuits.

The CLS Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It is part of a U.S. government interagency effort to dramatically expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages.”