The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale invites applications for Academic Year 2019 – 2020 fellowships for language study. All foreign languages are eligible for funding. However, applicants interested in studying Chinese, Japanese, or Korean should first apply to the Richard U. Light Fellowship Program; and, applicants interested in studying an eligible European language should first apply to the Council on European Studies’ Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) competition. The MacMillan Center will consider applications for Chinese, Japanese, or Korean or eligible European languages only from applicants who have been waitlisted for funding in the Light Program or the FLAS competitions. Applicants may not apply for or hold Light or FLAS fellowships concurrently with a MacMillan Center language fellowship.
Eligible: first-year students, sophomores, juniors, and graduate students.
Award amount: up to $18,000 for non-Yale University tuition and fees and up to $15,000 for living expenses.
Academic year language fellowships are available to any undergraduate, graduate and professional school student whose academic program requires the study of a foreign language or whose research plans require the study of a foreign language. In the application, students are expected to demonstrate a bona fide academic need to study the language they have proposed and show a clear relationship to the applicant’s overall course of study. Only current students who are fully enrolled may apply.
Priority will be given to students applying for intermediate and advanced level language study, but beginning level study will be considered from Ph.D. students who have a research need for the language.