Manila in the Jaws of Hatred
February 9, 2018
As he kept talking, the golden glow of the late afternoon gave way to the blood red Manila sunset. Suddenly, everything looked strange and unfamiliar. Have I been away from
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
Competition for Summer 2024 and Academic Year 2024-25 awards opens November 1st! New: The summer stipend has increased to $3,500 (previously $2,500)! The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship...
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Studying museology to understand a political Russia
January 31, 2018
Thanks to a Jackson-Fosdick Memorial Scholarship, Teofila Cruz-Uribe, in the third and final year of her concurrent master’s degrees in Museology and International Studies at the Jackson School Ellison Center
Summer at the State Department: refugees and more
January 23, 2018
Thanks to a Leslianne Shedd Internship Scholarship in International Studies and Public Health, Alexander Kuehl, a second-year M.A. in International Studies student, spent summer 2017 interning at U.S. Department of
FLAS Fellow and Future JAG Darius Izad On His Path to Chinese and the U.S. Air Force
January 10, 2018
Darius Izad’s first college class was Chinese, and after 9 years of university-level study, Chinese will very likely be his last college class. Darius is a third-year JD candidate at
Québécois, Nationalism and Refugee Law: Notes from two Canada FLAS fellows
January 3, 2018
“Many people in Québec City do not speak English so I was forced out of my comfort zone by speaking French in daily life, as well as in the classroom.
Ph.D. Candidate Clint Work talks operational control of South Korea’s military | The Diplomat
November 14, 2017
Ph.D. Candidate Clint Work, recently added as a policy writer for The Diplomat magazine, discusses the revival of the debate concerning wartime operational control of the Republic of Korea (ROK) military in his
2017-18 Middle East FLAS Fellow Profiles
November 13, 2017
The Middle East Center (MEC) has published profiles of the 2017-18 MEC FLAS fellows. Read about them on the MEC website through the link below. FLAS Fellows FLAS Fellowships are
Ph.D. Candidate Clint Work becomes policy writer on Korea for The Diplomat
November 1, 2017
Ph.D. Candidate Clint Work, whose doctoral research focuses on U.S.-Korean relations under President Jimmy Carter and Carter’s abortive withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from South Korea, was recently added as an
Mandirs, Holy Water and the Family Shrine: FLAS Fellow Maya Martin on Religious Diversity in Jaipur
October 19, 2017
“…it is nearly impossible to escape the influence of religion in India in everything, and even in my limited time in the state of Rajasthan I was able to experience
Students of Portuguese Discuss the FLAS Fellowship
October 11, 2017
“Going to grad school was a big stress for my family and for me because I wanted to do it without taking out more loans, because I already have all