Wodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars

East European Studies

EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS

NOTE: An individual may apply for only one category of support per fiscal year.

JUNIOR SCHOLARS TRAINING SEMINAR

East European Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Committee on East European Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies are soliciting applications for the sixteenth annual training seminar for junior scholars in East European studies, to be held August 8-11, 2003, at the historic Wye Conference Center on the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland.
These scholarships are available only to American citizens or permanent residents. All domestic transportation, accommodation, and meal costs will be covered by the sponsors. Graduate students enrolled in a doctoral program at an American university who have completed all requirements and research for the Ph.D. except the dissertation (and scholars who received their Ph.D.s in 1999 or later) in any field of East European or Baltic studies are eligible to apply.  Russia and the Soviet successor states are excluded.
Participants will present their research, discuss the works of other junior scholars, and exchange impressions of the state of the field with a group of senior scholars.

The application must include: a completed application form (which may be downloaded from www.wilsoncenter.org/ees); a curriculum vitae (which must include social security number, institution where degree is expected or was received, title of doctoral dissertation, and name and department of doctoral advisor); a single page, single spaced statement of the work you wish to discuss, either the dissertation or another project; and one letter of recommendation from Ph.D. advisor

Completed applications must be received by April 15, 2003.

SHORT TERM GRANTS
(one month duration)

With funding provided by Title VIII (Soviet and East European Research and Training Act), East European Studies offers short term grants to scholars having particular need for the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C. area. This program is limited to American citizens (or permanent residents) at the advanced graduate and postdoctoral level and to an equivalent degree of professional achievement for those from other fields. Short term grants provide a stipend of $100 per day for one month (for a maximum of $3,000). This program requires visiting scholars to remain in the Washington, D.C. area and to forego other academic and professional obligations for the duration of the grant. No office space, however, is provided.

Topic of research in social sciences or the humanities is limited to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (including the Baltic states and the former Yugoslav nations, but excluding the countries of Russia, Ukraine, the NIS states or Germany except in a strictly comparative format).

The applicant must submit a concise description of his/her research project, a curriculum vita, a statement on preferred and alternate dates of residence in Washington, D.C., and two letters specifically in support of the research to be conducted at the Center. Members of the East European Academic Council review applications at regular intervals throughout the year. Closing dates are December 1, March 1, June 1, and September 1. Applicants are notified approximately four weeks after the closing date.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Please direct all inquiries to East European Studies.

East European Studies
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Tel: 202-691-4000

E-mail: ees@wwic.si.edu
Website: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/ees/