Research Fellowships

• Advanced Russian Language and Area Studies Program
  American Councils' longest-running study abroad program provides intensive Russian-language immersion for US undergraduate and graduate students in Russia.
• African Languages Overseas Flagship Program
  The Language Flagship leads the nation in designing, supporting, and implementing a new paradigm for advanced language education. Through an innovative partnership between the federal government, education, and business, The Language Flagship seeks to graduate students who will take their place among the next generation of global professionals, commanding a superior level of fluency in one of many languages critical to U.S. competitiveness and security
• Collaborative Research Grants in the Humanities
  Overseas research and travel for U.S. post-doctoral scholars who are collaborating with scholars of Central or Eastern Europe or Eurasia on research in the humanities.
• Eurasian Regional Language Program
  Provides graduate students, advanced undergraduates, scholars, and professionals the unique opportunity to study the languages of the independent states of the former Soviet Union in an overseas, immersion setting for a summer, semester or academic year.
• Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program
  Provides full support for research and approximately ten hours per week of advanced language instruction for three to nine consecutive months in Central Asia, Russia, the South Caucasus, Moldova, and Ukraine.
• Title VIII Research Scholar Program
  Provides full support for three to nine consecutive month research trips to Central Asia, Russia, the South Caucasus, Moldova and Ukraine.
• Title VIII Southeast European Language Training Program
  This program provides fellowships for graduate students, faculty, and scholars to study language for a semester, academic year or summer in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia.
• Title VIII Southeast European Research Program
  This program provides fellowships for graduate students, faculty and scholars to conduct field research for a semester, academic year or summer in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia.
• Title VIII Special Initiatives Fellowship Program
  The Special Initiatives Research Fellowship offers post-doctoral scholars up to $35,000 for field-based, policy-relevant research in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.