Funding For Students
Looking for funding for travel or research? Many of SGS'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.
| Title | Region | Purpose | Student Type | Deadline (approx.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies - Student grantsTwo 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. |
Other | Language Study, Research | Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students | March |
African Studies - Cape Town Summer FellowshipCape 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) |
Africa | Summer Fellowship | Undergraduate Students | May |
African Studies - FellowshipsTwo partial fellowships to incoming M.A. students |
Stanford | Academic Year Fellowship | Graduate Students | February |
African Studies - Language FellowshipAfrican Language Fellowship provides up to $5,000 for study in the U.S. or abroad. |
Other | Language Study | Graduate Students | March |
African Studies - Research in AfricaGraduate Student Research Fellowships of up to $5,000 will be awarded for expenses related to summer research in Africa. |
Africa | Research, Summer Fellowship | Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students | March |
African Studies - Susan Ford Dorsey FellowshipThe Susan Ford Dorsey Fellowship provides financial support for Ph.D. candidates to undertake field research in Africa in support of their dissertation projects. |
Africa | Research, Summer Fellowship | Graduate Students | May |
CREEES - Academic Year FLAS FellowshipFLAS fellowships provide full tuition for one year plus a stipend to students undergoing advanced training in a designated foreign language. |
Stanford | Language Study | Graduate Students | February |
CREEES - Summer FLAS FellowshipsSummer FLAS Fellowships providing tuition plus $2,500 stipends to students enrolled in intensive summer language programs in the US or abroad |
Other | Language Study | Graduate Students | February |
CREEES - Summer Travel/Research GrantsSummer travel/research grants provide up to $2,000 in support for research travel in the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. |
Russia & Eastern Europe | Research | Graduate Students | February |
East Asian Studies - Academic Year FellowshipUS 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. |
Stanford | Academic Year Fellowship | Undergraduate Students | February |
East Asian Studies - CEAS-Only FLAS FellowshipsFor CEAS MA Students only: Tuition-only fellowships, or in some cases tuition plus small stipend for up to three quarters |
Stanford | Academic Year Fellowship | Graduate Students | April |
East Asian Studies - Continuing Student FellowshipCEAS 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. |
Stanford | Academic Year Fellowship | Graduate Students | April |
East Asian Studies - Fellowship for Study of Women in AsiaAcademic-Year 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. |
Stanford | Academic Year Fellowship | Graduate Students | February |
East Asian Studies - FLAS Graduate StudentsAcademic-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. |
Stanford | Academic Year Fellowship | Graduate Students | February |
East Asian Studies - Korean Studies Prize for WritingThe Korean Studies Program Prize for Writing in Korean 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. |
Stanford | Essay, Other Award | Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students | May |
East Asian Studies - Overseas Language Study FellowshipUndergraduate Overseas Language Study Fellowships provide partial funding to support Stanford undergraduates who study Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. |
East Asia, Other | Academic Year Fellowship, Summer Fellowship | Undergraduate Students | February |
East Asian Studies - Research TravelCEAS MA Students only: Travel abroad for research |
Other | Research | Graduate Students | March |
East Asian Studies - Summer GrantsCEAS M.A. Student Travel Grants to support continuing CEAS M.A. students’ travel abroad for research in conjunction with their M.A. thesis project. |
Other | Research | Graduate Students | February |
East Asian Studies - Summer InternshipsCEAS 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. |
Other | Internship | Graduate Students | February |
East Asian Studies - Supp. Grants for Fieldwork in East AsiaSupplemental Grants for Undergraduate Fieldwork in East Asia for students who receive UAR grants. |
Other | Research | Undergraduate Students | Until funds are depleted |
Europe Center - Anna Lindh FellowshipAnna 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 |
Stanford | Research | Graduate Students | Ongoing |
Europe Center - Austria Visitor ProgramSupport for Stanford graduate students enrolled in a doctoral program in one of Stanford's seven schools, with special emphasis on the Social Sciences and Humanities. The scholarships are especially appropriate for graduate students who have reached the advanced stages of their doctoral research. |
Europe | Research | Graduate Students | Until funds are depleted |
Europe Center - Graduate Student Grant CompetitionFunds are available for Ph.D. candidates across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to prepare for dissertation research and to conduct research on approved dissertation projects. The Europe Center also supports early graduate students who wish to determine the feasibility of a dissertation topic or acquire training relevant for that topic. |
Europe | Internship, Research | Graduate Students | Fall |
Europe Center - Internship ProgramSummer internships with leading European think tanks and international organizations provide Stanford’s undergraduate student community with the chance to develop a deep understanding of contemporary European society and affairs. |
Europe | Internship | Undergraduate Students | |
France-Stanford - Graduate Student Researcher FellowshipsVisiting 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. |
Europe, Stanford | Research | Graduate Students | March |
France-Stanford - Undergraduate FellowshipFunding for Stanford undergrads interested in undertaking research or pursuing an internship at a French institution (public and private universities, public technical universities, institutes of technologies and autonomous scientific higher education institutes, grandes écoles, government agencies and organizations, non-governmental organizations, public and private companies). |
Europe | Internship, Research | Undergraduate Students | February |
France-Stanford - Visiting Junior Scholar FellowshipFellowships are available to (1) Scholars who have completed a PhD no more than three years from the date of applying for the fellowship and who hold a tenure-track/permanent (rather than post-doctoral) position at a French institution and who are interested in pursuing a course of research at Stanford; (2) Postdoctoral students affiliated with a French institution and who are interested in pursuing a course of research at Stanford; (3) Stanford postdocs interested in undertaking research or pursuing an internship at a French institution; (4) Stanford PhD students with Terminal Graduate Re |
Other | Academic Year Fellowship, Internship, Research | Graduate Students | March |
Global Studies InternshipsSummer internship positions worldwide available in business, non-profit, media, educational, medical, technology and government activities. |
Other | Internship | Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students | February |
International Policy Studies - FellowshipsSelect 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. |
Stanford | Academic Year Fellowship, Research | Graduate Students | N/A |
International Relations - Summer Research CollegeSummer Research College pays IR students for research with a faculty member. Contact sheldon1@stanford.edu. |
Stanford | Research, Summer Fellowship | Undergraduate Students | April |
Jewish StudiesThe 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. |
Stanford | Other Award, Research | Undergraduate Students | January |
Jewish StudiesKoret Summer Fellowship in the Jewish Community (in collaboration with the Haas Center for Public Service) supports up to three fellows with a base stipend of $4,000 during their nine-week summer experience on projects addressing a social welfare, cultural, educational or environmental need in partnership with a Jewish communal organization. |
Other | Community Service, Summer Fellowship | Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students | February |
Jewish Studies - Donald and Robin Kennedy Undergraduate AwardThe 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. |
Stanford | Essay | Undergraduate Students | May |
Jewish Studies - Graduate Student FundingGraduate students admitted to the program receive funding according to the degree program, plus opportunities for additional funding for language, research, or conferences. |
Other | Academic Year Fellowship, Conference Travel, Language Study, Research | Graduate Students | N/A |
Jewish Studies - Koret AwardThe Koret Award will be given to the best essay written in Hebrew by an undergraduate at Stanford, and offers a prize of $250. |
Stanford | Essay | Undergraduate Students | May |
Jewish Studies - Nelee Langmuir AwardThe 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. |
Stanford | Language Study, Other Award | Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students | May |
Latin American StudiesSummer 2015 FLAS Fellowship for a FLAS-approved intensive language course to be taken in the US (preferred) or abroad |
Latin America, Other, United States | Language Study | Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students | February |
Latin American StudiesThe Monica Miller Walsh summer internship grants award up to $4,000 to Stanford undergraduate students interested in completing an independent internship in Latin America. |
Latin America | Internship | Undergraduate Students | February |
Latin American StudiesFLAS Fellowship for intensive language study at Stanford during the academic year |
Stanford | Academic Year Fellowship | Undergraduate Students | February |
Latin American Studies - Academic Year FLAS FellowshipAcademic Year FLAS Fellowship for advanced training in designated foreign languages |
Stanford | Language Study | Graduate Students | February |
Latin American Studies - Ayacucho Fund FellowshipThe Ayacucho Fund provides a full fellowship to Latin American graduate students at Stanford University covering tuition plus stipend for one academic year |
Stanford | Academic Year Fellowship | Graduate Students | First day of classes of winter quarter in preceding academic year |
Latin American Studies - Conference Travel GrantsConference travel grants of up to $400. |
Latin America, Other | Conference Travel | Graduate Students | Until funds are depleted |
Latin American Studies - Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation AwardGrants through the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Foundation of up to $6,000 for student-led research in Venezuela. |
Latin America | Research | Graduate Students | Until funds are depleted |
Latin American Studies - Working Group AwardWorking group awards of up to $3,000 per group to organize lectures, symposia, etc. |
Other | Other Award | Graduate Students | October |
Russian, East European and Eurasian StudiesFLAS 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 |
Europe, Russia & Eastern Europe, United States | Language Study | Undergraduate Students | April |
Russian, East European and Eurasian StudiesFLAS fellowship providing $10,000 in tuition support and a $5,000 stipend for one academic year of advanced training in designated foreign languages |
Russia & Eastern Europe | Academic Year Fellowship | Undergraduate Students | April |
Russian, East European and Eurasian StudiesGlobalizing Eurasia Grant for multi-country summer research in two or more countries in Russia, Central and East Europe, the Caucasus, or Central Asia or in this region and another. Projects might involve, for example, travel in Russia and China, the Caucasus and Turkey, or some other combination of countries. Up to $7,000 in funding. |
Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Russia & Eastern Europe | Research | Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students | April |
SGS Global Perspectives Fund for Graduate StudentsFunding up to $6,500 to support summer internships, research abroad, language training or other activities that help graduate students address global and international concerns in their research. |
Other | Internship, Language Study, Research | Graduate Students | See award information |
South Asia - Graduate Language Fellowship (US or abroad)South Asia Graduate Language Fellowship for study in the U.S. or abroad. Fellowships up to $3,000 will be awarded. |
Other | Language Study | Graduate Students | April |
South Asia Community Service FellowshipCommunity Service Fellowship awards of up to $3,000 for community service in South Asia. |
South Asia | Community Service | Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students | April |
