FUNDING GRADUATE STUDY

Foreign Language Grants

Foreign Language study is critical to successful completion of the MA in Comparative Religion at the UW.

All applicants to our MA program - both those without previous foreign language training and those with it - should immediately consider grants for language study available from Foreign Language (FLAS). The application is easily accessible. Deadline is January of each year. Apply early! The FLAS is also open to current graduate students.

Also consider applying to the US State Department's Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes (US Department of State and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers) for intensive summer workshops
Check out the news from the Critical Language Scholarship Program offered through the US State Department by cliicking here.

University of Washington Funding

• Teaching Assistantships 
• UW Operating Fee Waiver/Appointments: http://www.washington.edu/students/reg/residency.html#apply
• UW Office of Financial Aid http://www.washington.edu/students/osfa/
• Work Study Student Financial Aid http://www.washington.edu/students/osfa/gradaid/
• Fosseen Endowed Scholarship
• Mitsui (USA) Scholarship
• Domoto Webb Fellowship http://jsis.washington.edu/religion/scholarships.shtml/
• JSIS Fellowships and Support  http://jsis.washington.edu/advise/graduate/fin_aid.shtml
• The Webb Scholarship http://jsis.washington.edu/religion/scholarships.shtml
• Other awards http://jsis.washington.edu/advise/graduate/fin_aid.shtml
• Resources for Graduate Students http://www.grad.washington.edu/area/area_stud.htm#money
• NELC fellowship page http://depts.washington.edu/nelc/funding.html
• The Frank F. Conlon Endowed Fellowship in South Asian Studies
  For application guidelines see: http://jsis.washington.edu/
  soasia/studentsupport.shtml#conlon

Travel Funding

• Ronald E. McNair Program http://depts.washington.edu/uwmcnair/description.htm
• Jack Shand Research Awards www.sssrweb.org/awards.cfm
• Jewish Studies Travel Grants http://jsis.washington.edu/jewish/scholarships.shtml

Outside Funding

• Critical Language Scholarships  http://www.clscholarship.org/
• Fulbright Fellowship http://us.fulbrightonline.org/
• Grants offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies Grants.gov. http://www.grants.gov/applicants/find_grant_opportunities.jsp
• Jack Kent Cooke http://www.jkcf.org/scholarships/graduate-scholarships/

MAURICE AND LOIS SCHWARTZ FELLOWSHIP
Deadline: Jan. 15
http://depts.washington.edu/nelc/nelc_fellowships.html
Amounts from $1500 (for one quarter), though under exceptional
circumstances two-quarter $3000 fellowships have been awarded. Application: application form, a transcript (unofficial), current CV, 1-2 page description of proposed study or research abroad (include description of the nature of the study, country, location(s), anticipated dates of stay, how a Schwartz fellowship would be used, and three letters of recommendation. Send all materials to: Maurice & Lois Schwartz Award Committee, c/o Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization; 229 Denny Hall, Box 353120, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3120.