SOUTH ASIA STUDIES

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships:

The South Asia Center offers a limited number of FLAS fellowships both for the academic year and summer. Please see:
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships

Please note: An additional opportunity to win a Summer FLAS award may be had through the South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI). All Title 6 South Asia Centers have collaborated to offer SASLI at University of Wisconsin -Madison. Those interested should apply directly to SASLI for these fellowships. For more information, click here.

The Briton Martin Fellowship

The Briton Martin Fellowship covers stipend and fees for an ABD student in any graduate group at Penn who is within three years of their Ph.D. exams, to support the completion of a dissertation on South Asia. Additional research funds may be made available by the Dean to Briton Martin Fellows. Applications are due by March 26. The award will be made on April 15. Applicants should send the following material in hard copy to the SARS Graduate Chair, Jamal J.Elias, at 820 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104/6305:

1. A detailed description of the program for the grant period.
2. Complete information on the state of the dissertation (including draft chapters).
3. Three recommendations from faculty closely involved in the project.

A recommendation for the award will be made by the SARS graduate committee to the SARS graduate faculty, which will make the final decision.

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for Graduate Study for New Americans

Who is eligible to become a Fellow? A New American is an individual who has applied for naturalization or has been naturalized as a U.S. citizen or the child of two parents who are both naturalized citizens. The applicant must either have a bachelor's degree or be in her/his final year of undergraduate study. Those who have a bachelor's degree may already be pursuing graduate study and may receive Fellowship support to continue that study. To be eligible you must be at least twenty and not older than twenty-eight years of age as of Monday, March 30, 1998.

The purpose of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields and to partake of the American dream.

The Fellowships are grants for up to two years of graduate study in the United States, with a third year of study considered. The recipients are chosen on a national competitive basis. In the spring of 1998, a pilot group of ten Fellows will be selected. thereafter, thirty Fellowships will be awarded each year.

Each year the fellow receives a maintenance grant of $20,000 (paid in three installments) and a tuition grant of one-half the tuition cost of the U.S. graduate program attended by the Fellow. For more information see the website: http://www.pdsoros.org/