Fellowships
The Middle East Center offers several internal fellowships for Penn graduate students – The Foreign Area and Language Study Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and the Janet Lee Stevens Fellowship in Arabic Studies. We have also compiled a wide array of fellowships available to graduate and undergraduate students, as well as opportunities for post-doc and research fellowships for scholars.
Internal Fellowships
Visiting Scholar Research Position with the Middle East Center and the Annenberg Center for Global Communication Studies
Information about position and application
Foreign and Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS)
Information for FLAS Applicants - Summer 2008
Information for FLAS Applicants - 2008-2009 Academic Year
Janet Lee Stevens Graduate Fellowship in Arabic Studies
http://mec.sas.upenn.edu/fellowships/stevens.html
Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
Lots of general information on research and fellowship opportunities just for undergrads
http:// www.upenn.edu/curf
External Fellowships
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (MIT & Harvard)
Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Research in Islamic Architecture
http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/
American Academy for Jewish Research
http://www.aajr.org/announcements.html#fel
American Association of University Women (AAUM)
Fellowship - awards fellowships to women seeking graduate-level degrees
http://www.aauw.org
American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan
http://www.bu.edu/acor/
- Kress Fellowship in the Art & Archeology of Jordan
- CAORC Fellowship for humanities and social sciences, pertinent to Near Eastern Studies (pre- & post- doctoral)
- CAORC Senior Fellowship for natural & social sciences, humanities, and associated disciplines pertinent to Near East (post-doctoral)>
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship
- Jennifer C. Groot Fellowship for ASOR/CAP archeological fieldwork in Jordan (for undergraduate and graduate students)>
- Harrell Family Fellowship for ACOR-approved archeological research (graduate students)
- Kenneth W. Russell Fellowship in archeology, anthropology, conservation, & related areas (Jordanian citizens only)
- Pierre & Patricia Bilkai Fellowship for archeological or research project in Jordan (graduate students)
American Institute of Iranian Studies
Research/Language Fellowship in Tehran
http://www.simorgh-aiis.org
American Institute for Maghrib Studies
Pre-Dissertation Grant Program
Tangier Summer Arabic Language Program (TSALP) Intensive Summer Arabic Program
2004-2005 Grants Program
Research Fellowships for North African Scholars
http://aimsnorthafrica.org/
American Institute for Yemeni Studies Fellowship
http://www.aiys.org/fellowships.html
American Research Center in Egypt
Pre/Post-Doctoral, various fields
http://www.arce.org
American Research Institute in Turkey
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/FellowshipPrograms.htm
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Fellows Programs (non-residential)
http://www.cceia.org
Center for International Exchange of Scholars
Fulbright Awards for Faculty and Professionals
http://www.iie.org/cies/
Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/
Cornell University - Directory of Grants & Fellowships
A mega-link page with national post-docs in the humanities (and including diss.
writing grants)
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/list.phtml?category=HUMANITIES
Council of American Overseas Research Center
Fellowship for Advanced Multi-Country Study
http://www.caorc.org
Fulbright Grants - Institute of International Education
Graduate Study/Research
http://www.iie.org
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/index.html
Getty Foundation Fellowship
http://www.getty.edu/grants/
Harvard University Society of Fellows
http://www.socfell.fas.harvard.edu/nominations.html
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Pre- and Postdoctoral
Fellowships
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/funding/student/academy
Harvard University's John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies Pre-
and Postdoctoral Fellowships in National Security
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/olin/fellowshipinformation/index.htm
Humanities Research Institute (U. Cal.)
Faculty, Post-Doc, and Graduate Fellowships
http://flatiron.sdsc.edu/projects/uchri/index.php
Institute for Turkish Studies
Grant opportunities for undergrads, grads, and post-docs
www.turkishstudies.org/grant.html
Institute of International Education, National Security Education Program
Undergraduate scholarships for study abroad, various fields, languages, and countries
http://www.iie.org/programs/nsep/default.htm
IREX
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa and more
http://www.irex.org/programs/grants.asp
Israel Studies Association
Many doctoral and post-doc fellowships in and on Israel
http://www.aisisraelstudies.org
The Joan P. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at University
of Notre Dame
Both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral level fellowships
http://kroc.nd.edu/visiting_fellows/visfell0708.shtml
Josephine De Kármán Fellowship Trust
Final year of dissertation research
http://www.dekarman.org
Middle East Studies Association of North America Grant Listing
http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Onlinenews/grants_files/grants.htm
The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
Offers doctoral dissertation fellowships and the Ephraim E. Urbach Post-Doctoral Fellowship
http://www.mfjc.org/
The National Foundation for Jewish Culture
Offers doctoral dissertation fellowships, grants-in-aid, and a dissertation publication grant
http://www.jewishculture.org/
http://www.jewishculture.org/doc_diss/jewish_scholarship_dd.html
The Open Society Institute
Offers grants, scholarships & fellowships
http://www.soros.org/grants
Palestinian American Research Center
Research fellowships, graduate, doctoral, post-doctoral
http://www.caorc.org/centers/PARC.html
Penn's Career Services funding information website:
http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/funding/funding.html
Penn Humanities Forum
Mellon Post-Doc Fellowship in the Humanities
http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu
Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
http://www.princeton.edu/~sf/index.shtml
Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship on US-Arab Relations or Islamic Studies
http://ccas.georgetown.edu/center-scholarships-qatar_f.cfm
The United States-Israel Educational Foundation, Fulbright Program
http://www.fulbright.org.il/
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/US-Israel/USIEF.html
US Department of State
Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Institutes
http://www.clscholarship.org/home.php
University of Oxford
Post-Doc Research Fellowship, Middle/Near Eastern Studies
email: jane.webber@orinst.ox.ac.uk
W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (Jerusalem) http://www.aiar.org/fellowships.html
Yale University, Whitney Humanities Center
http://www.yale.edu/whc/fellows.html
Resource Centers
Office of International Programs (Penn)
http://www.upenn.edu/oip
Social Science Research Council
http://www.ssrc.org