Summer Travel & Research Awards

FLAS Awards
Applications for the 2010 Summer FLAS Award are due by February 5, 2010.
Summer FLAS 2010 Award Application (.pdf)
  
The Simon Collier Travel Award
Applications for the Simon Collier Travel Award are due by February 5, 2010. 
Simon Collier Travel Award Application (.pdf)

Tinker Field Research Grant
Applications for Tinker Summer Research Grant are due February 5, 2010. 
Tinker Field Research Grants Application (.pdf)



Latin American Visiting Resource Professorship
The Latin American Visiting Resource Professorship is funded by a Vanderbilt Enhancing Graduate Education grant. This program will fund two distinguished Latin American scholars, politicians, or writers per year to come to Vanderbilt for approximately four weeks to participate in a graduate seminar, offer a non-credit special topic seminar, and to interact more widely with graduate students.  

Expressions of interest in the program should be directed to Ted Fischer or Avery Dickins de Girón by 15 December 2008. The application deadline will then be in early Spring 2009.

Visiting Resource Professorship Application 2009.

K'iche' Immersion Program
The University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies, in partnership with Vanderbilt University’s Center for Latin American Studies, will offer a new summer intensive immersion language program in K'iche' Maya on site in Nahualá, Guatemala. The program will be offered from June 23-August 1, 2008. This is a FLAS-approved summer language program. Full program details and application instructions may be found at http://clas.uchicago.edu/kiche_summer.shtml. A poster with details is attached. Please direct all inquiries to Josh Beck, Associate Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Chicago, jpbeck@uchicago.edu
or (773) 702-8420.
 
  
     

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS): Academic Year Fellowships

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the Center five Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for Portuguese or a Latin American Indigenous Language in the amount of $670,000 for 2006-2010.  These fellowships offer an academic year stipend of $15,000 and a tuition award of $12,000.