Awards and Funding Opportunities

FLAS Fellowships

European Studies: http://europe.unc.edu/research/foreign-language-and-area-studies-fellowship/

Duke: https://middleeaststudies.duke.edu/foreign-language-and-area-studies-fellowships

UNC: http://mideast.unc.edu/students/flas/

• The AATT-ARIT Fellowship for Advanced Turkish at Boğaziçi University. This is a Department of Education sponsored fellowship award for intensive advanced Turkish study during the summer. Application deadlines are usually in early February.

• The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. In 2006, its inaugural year, the CLS Program offered intensive overseas study in the critical need foreign languages of Arabic, Bangla, Hindi, Punjabi, Turkish and Urdu.

• David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations.

• The Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship is a scholarship for American undergraduates to study abroad. The scholarship provides grants for students with limited financial means to pursue international study. It is funded by the International Academic Opportunity Act, passed in 2000, and sponsored by the US State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over 10,000 alumni of the program have studied in more than 120 countries around the world.