Grants & Stipends

How do I find grants?
☑Look at the websites of professional organizations (The American Association of Teachers or French or The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, for example) for grants
☑ Look at scholarly organizations for your period, author, century or theme. Can you get a research grant from an area (Caribbean, French, Latin-American, etc.) studies association or a even a travel grant to go to a conference in your field?
☑Use the Career Center's resources
☑ Look for "people like you" (teachers, people from your state or country, people with the same research interests, etc.) who have received grants. Who does what you want to do? Who helped them do it? Examine your “role models’ ” cv or the acknowledgments page in their books for the organizations that helped fund their work.

The key is to think about what you want. What subject interests you? What do you need money to do? Do you need to travel? do archival research? read documents or rare books? read a lot of different things? work? study a language?

You can find grants that will pay for graduate study in the area of your choice.

International Development and International Relations are areas in which you can find dozens of grants and stipends for study, research, and travel that will use your foreign language skills.

But don’t neglect the large number of Major Scholarships and Fellowships that will also provide you with funds for almost any area of study you can think of.

A comprehensive list of grants and fellowships can be found on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate college website:
Fellowship Office, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Of course, depending on the country you would like to visit or work in, there are specific grants, often provided by that country’s government or through a U.S. government program.

The following grants and stipends are provided through the French embassy in the United States. Most are for U.S. citizens only.

✴Teaching Assistantships in France
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs employs 1500 American students to teach English in France every academic year. Appointments are for 12 hours a week.
Applicants must be between 20 and 30 years of age, American citizens, and have or be pursuing a college education.
The appointments vary in length. Students are paid about 750 Euros a month.

✴Internships in France
Applicants must be between 18 and 30 years of age and enrolled in an American university. The internship service will look for an internship that corresponds to the student's specific qualifications. The student must have a basic proficiency in French.

✴ Stages Pédagogiques de Courte Durée (SPCD)
Short-Term Teaching Internships
About 60 grants are offered every year to teachers of French or instructors of teachers of French. It gives the scholar the opportunity to follow a course on a specific teaching-related topic, to develop interpersonal, cultural and linguistic skills and to spend several weeks in France.
You must:
- Be a teacher or professor of French;
- Be an American citizen or permanent US resident;
- Not have received a similar grant in the last 3 years.
It is a 3-week training during July. The training is paid in full and the personal expenses (housing, meals, leisure…) are also partially covered.
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Grants and fellowships for graduate students in the humanities include:

✴The Newberry Library
This Chicago library, located in the Gold Coast neighborhood, offers short-term and long-term scholarships for graduate students, teachers, and independent scholars doing research on a variety of subjects related to the library’s collection.

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress offers the
✴Kislak Fellowship.
from their website:
The Kislak Fellows Program supports scholarly research that contributes significantly to a greater understanding of the cultures and history of the Americas. It provides an opportunity for a period of up to four months of concentrated use of materials from the Kislak Collection and other collections of the Library of Congress, through full-time residency at the Library. The program supports research projects in the disciplines of archaeology, history, cartography, epigraphy, linguistics, ethno-history, ethnography, bibliography and sociology, with particular emphasis on Florida, the circum-Caribbean region and Mesoamerica. We encourage interdisciplinary projects that combine disciplines in novel and productive ways.

Also note:
Many research libraries, both in the U.S. and abroad, offer fellowships and stipends for those who use their collections. This is also true of archives, museums, and some private collections (historic homes, etc.). You can best find these fellowships by deciding what you would like to study, then investigating which organizations offer funding for that kind of work.

For example,

✴The John Carter Brown Library
from their website: THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY will award approximately thirty Research Fellowships for the year June 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008. Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown Library is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement.

✴The Huntington Library
offers a variety of fellowships, some of them supporting research on the Americas.

✴The Clements DeGolyer Library Research Travel Grants
support research concerning the Southwest and borderlands.

✴The Folger Shakespeare Library
offers fellowships for scholars working on early modern topics.

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Search The Chronicle of Higher Education ‘s job section for academic and non-academic jobs, as well as fellowships.

Search the American Department of Foreign Language’s Job List (job postings for positions in the foreign languages at institutions of higher education).

Grants & Stipends in the Foreign Languages