FLAS Fellowships -- Deadline: Jan. 18, 2011

FLAS Fellowships are administered by the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies Centers and are awarded competitively through an annual competition. Students from all departments and professional schools are encouraged to apply. Priority is given to the study of less commonly taught languages and each Center has specific priorities. See the links above for more information about the process. All applications are due on January 18th, 2011.

FLAS Fellowships support graduate and undergraduate study in modern foreign languages in combination with area studies, international studies, or international or area aspects of professional studies. The following languages, classified by Center, are approved by the U.S. Department of Education for FLAS fellowships at UW. Note: undergraduates cannot apply to study French, German, or Spanish.

If you have any questions, contact flas@jsis.washington.edu.

FLAS Languages and Other Fellowships

Canada Center: French or Other (Canadian First Nations, Métis, or Inuit languages - special approval needed)

East Asia Center: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Gordon C. Culp and China Recruitment Fellowships, Japan Studies Fellowships, Sochon Fellowship (Korean), Korean Exchange Grant, and George W. Long Fellowships (Korean)

Center for Global Studies: Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian/Malay, Kazakh, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Vietnamese

Middle East Center: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish

Russia, East Europe, Central Asia (Ellison Center): Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Tajik, Uyghur (Uighur), Uzbek, Titus Ellison Fellowship, Gordon C. Culp Fellowship, and Stewart Parker Endowed Fellowships

South Asia Center: Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Persian, and Frank F. Conlon Fellowship

Southeast Asia Center: Burmese, Filipino/Tagalog, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai, Vietnamese,

Center for West European Studies: Danish, Estonian, Finnish , French, German, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish