Funding for Students
Looking for funding for travel or research? Many of ICA's programs and centers offer fellowships, internships, scholarships and other funding to students at Stanford. Following are brief descriptions of the opportunities available; for more details click on the program or center name.
| Center or Program | Degree | Description | Deadline (approx.) |
| Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies | Undergraduate & Graduate | Two types of projects are supported for projects pertaining to Islam and Muslim societies: Graduate student fieldwork and research projects; and intensive language study abroad or in the United States. Up to $4,000. | March |
| African Studies | Graduate | Two partial fellowships to incoming M.A. students | February |
| African Studies | Undergraduate & Graduate | African Service Fellowships provide a base stipend of $4,000 to support travel and living expenses during the summer | February |
| African Studies | Graduate | Graduate Student Research Fellowships of up to $5,000 will be awarded for expenses related to summer research in Africa. | March |
| African Studies | Graduate | African Language Fellowship provides up to $5,000 for study in the U.S. or abroad. | March |
| African Studies | Undergraduate | Cape Town Summer Fellowship Program awards a limited number of summer fellowships up to $4,500 to students who participate in the BOSP Cape Town program (Winter and/or Spring Quarters) | May |
| African Studies | Graduate | The Susan Ford Dorsey Fellowship provides financial support for Ph.D. candidates to undertake field research in Africa in support of their dissertation projects. | May |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | Grants for Stanford graduate students to present papers at major academic or professional conferences. Awards of up to $500 after completion of travel. | Until funds are depleted |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | Fellowship for the Study of Women in Asia provides $10,000 in stipend plus three quarters TGR tuition for one academic year, to support dissertation research or write-up on topics related to women in Asia. | February |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | CEAS Summer Grants provide funding for continuing Stanford M.A. and Ph.D. students formal language training, required coursework, field work, dissertation research, or dissertation write-up. | February |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | Summer East Asia FLAS Fellowships for Graduate Students provide tuition and stipend for continuing registered Stanford students in M.A. or Ph.D. programs to undertake intensive advanced language study in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean during the summer quarter. | February |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | Academic-Year East Asia FLAS Fellowships for Graduate Students provide tuition and stipend for students in M.A. or Ph.D. programs who plan to undertake intensive advanced language study in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. | February |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | CEAS M.A. Student Summer Internships provides limited funding to support summer internships in Asia for continuing M.A. students. Awards will provide $3,500-$6,000 in stipend support for unpaid internships with private companies, government agencies, and NGOs in Asia for a period of 6-12 weeks. | February |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | CEAS M.A. Student Research Travel Grants to support continuing CEAS M.A. students’ travel abroad for research in conjunction with their M.A. thesis project. | March |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | CEAS M.A. Continuing Student Academic-Year Fellowships allocates a small amount of funding for continuing M.A. students in the form of tuition-only fellowships, or in some cases tuition plus small stipend for up to three quarters. | April |
| East Asian Studies | Undergraduate & Graduate | The Korean Studies Program Prize for Writing
recognizes outstanding examples of writing in an essay, term paper, or
thesis produced during the current academic year in any discipline
within the area of Korean Studies. The first place winner will receive $1,000 and the winning essay will be published in the Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs. | June |
| East Asian Studies | Undergraduate | Supplemental Grants for Undergraduate Fieldwork in East Asia for students who receive UAR grants. | Until funds are depleted |
| East Asian Studies | Undergraduate | Undergraduate Overseas Language Study Fellowships provide partial funding to support Stanford undergraduates who study Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. | February |
| East Asian Studies | Undergraduate | US Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide $10,000 in tuition and a $5,000 stipend for undergraduate students in any discipline for intensive language study at Stanford during the academic year. | June |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | For CEAS MA Students only: Summer internships in Asia | February |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | For CEAS MA Students only: Tuition-only fellowships, or in some cases tuition plus small stipend for up to three quarters | April |
| East Asian Studies | Graduate | CEAS MA Students only: Travel abroad for research | March |
| East Asia Internships | Undergraduate & Graduate | Summer internship positions in China, Japan and Korea available in business, non-profit, media, educational, medical, technology and government activities. | February |
| Europe Center | Graduate | Anna Lindh Fellowship is designed to bring fellows from Sweden, Scandinavia and the Baltic region and those scholars working on subjects of importance to the region to Stanford University | Ongoing |
| France-Stanford Center | Graduate | Visiting Graduate Student Researcher Fellowships available to (1) French students interested in research at Stanford, and (2) to Stanford students interested in research or an internship at a French institution. Awards of up to $7,000. | January |
| France-Stanford Center | Graduate | Visiting Postdoc Fellowships available to (1) French postdoctoral scholars interested in research at Stanford, and (2) to Stanford post-docs interested in research or pursuing an internship at a French institution. Maximum funding $7,000. | January |
| International Policy Studies | Graduate | Select number of fellowships (8-10 per year) are given to first year students. Students are notified of fellowship offers in their letters of acceptance. Teaching and research assistantships are available to second year students | n/a |
| International Relations | Undergraduate | Summer Research College pays IR students for research with a faculty member. Contact sarab1@stanford.edu. | April |
| International Relations | Undergraduate | Small ad hoc grants to IR Honors students; Contact sarab1@stanford.edu. | n/a |
| Jewish Studies | Undergraduate | The Kaufman Award will be given to an undergraduate student engaged in research on Jews in modernity, with a preference for research focusing on contemporary Jewish life. | January |
| Jewish Studies | Undergraduate | The Donald and Robin Kennedy Undergraduate Award honors the best essay written by an undergraduate at Stanford on a Jewish theme, and offers a prize of $500. | May |
| Jewish Studies | Undergraduate | The Koret Award will be given to the best essay written in Hebrew by an undergraduate at Stanford, and offers a prize of $250. | May |
| Jewish Studies | Undergraduate & Graduate | The Nelee Langmuir Award will be given to a student working in Modern European History with a preference given to work on the Holocaust, and offers a prize of $500. In alternate years, the award will be given to an undergraduate student who shows excellence and commitment to studying French. | May |
| Jewish Studies | Graduate | Graduate students admitted to the program receive funding according to the degree program, plus opportunities for additional funding for language, research, or conferences. | n/a |
| Latin American Studies | Undergraduate | FLAS Fellowship for intensive language study at Stanford during the academic year | May |
| Latin American Studies | Undergraduate | The Monica Miller Walsh summer internship grants award up to $4,000to Stanford undergraduate students interested in completing an independent internship in Latin America. | April |
| Latin American Studies | Graduate & Undergraduate | Summer 2013 FLAS Fellowship for a FLAS-approved intensive language course to be taken in the US (preferred) or abroad | February |
| Latin American Studies | Graduate | Academic Year FLAS Fellowship for advanced training in designated foreign languages | February |
| Latin American Studies | Graduate | The Ayacucho Fund provides a full fellowship to Latin American graduate students at Stanford University covering tuition plus stipend for one academic year | First day of classes of winter quarter in preceding academic year |
| Latin American Studies | Graduate | Grants through the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation of up to $6,000 for student-led research in Venezuela | Until funds are depleted |
| Latin American Studies | Graduate | Working group awards of up to $3,000 per group to organize lectures, symposia, etc. | October |
| Latin American Studies | Graduate | Conference travel grants of up to $400 | Until funds are depleted |
| Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies | Undergraduate | FLAS fellowship providing $10,000 in tuition support and a $5,000 stipend for one academic year of advanced training in designated foreign languages | March |
| Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies | Undergraduate | FLAS fellowship for summer language study in an accredited intensive language program in the US, Russia, Ukraine, Albania, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, Romania, or Central Asia | March |
| Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies | Graduate | FLAS fellowships provide full tuition for one year plus a stipend to students undergoing advanced training in a designated foreign language. | February |
| Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies | Graduate | Summer FLAS Fellowships providing tuition plus $2,500 stipends to students enrolled in intensive summer language programs in the US or abroad | February |
| Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies | Graduate | Summer travel/research grants provide up to $2,000 in support for research travel in the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. | March |
| South Asia | Graduate | Graduate student research fellowship open to Stanford University doctoral students (and exceptional postdoctoral candidates). Six fellowships of up to $5,000 for expenses related to summer research in South Asia. | April |
| South Asia | Graduate or Undergraduate | Community Service Fellowshipawards of up to $3,000 for community service in South Asia. | April |
| South Asia | Graduate | Graduate Language Fellowship for study in the U.S. or abroad. Fellowships up to $3,000 will be awarded. | April |
