Henry Hart Rice Foreign Residence Fellowship Applications Due

Event time: 
Monday, February 25, 2019 - 1:00pm
Event description: 

The Henry Hart Rice Foreign Residence Fellowships, made possible by a generous gift from Mr. Rice, are designed to support students planning projects that would involve them deeply immersing in a foreign culture. Students in the humanities and social sciences planning work, research, or independent study in a country that has strained relations with the United States. Projects should involve a stay of 9-12 months and must be for purposes other than Yale academic credit.

Sophomores, juniors, seniors, and graduate students are eligible for this fellowship, administered by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.  

In his original gift letter, Mr. Rice expressed his intentions regarding these awards: “There are many worthy causes but none can prosper unless we can avoid nuclear war. Peace is therefore the overriding priority. In the firm belief that knowledge will bring understanding, I therefore propose to make it possible for the next generation of leadership to live and study in those countries where relations with the United States are tense and strained…”  In pursuit of this larger goal, the fund enables opportunities for life-changing experiences that result from immersion in a foreign culture. Students in the humanities, including the social sciences, are the preferred recipients. Projects with purposes beyond purely academic study are encouraged but the fund also recognizes that links to an institution of higher education may be necessary for access or support in some countries or areas. Students whose purpose is solely language study would typically not qualify for this support, except where language study is an integral part of their immersion in a foreign culture and instrumental to their projects. 

Eligible are countries of Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe that are not members of the European Union (EU), Turkey, the Caucasus, Russia, Latin America, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia as well as the People’s Republic of China. Excluded are most of the traditional friends and allies of the U.S., including Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and countries that are members of the EU. The fellowship stipend will cover travel and living expenses in the host country at modest levels.