Information About Grants & Fellowships

The EUCE/ESC offers various grant and fellowship programs for students and faculty.  Links to application procedures and deadlines are provided below.

For Undergraduate Students

Harris Miller Scholarships for Participation in Integrated Field Trips Abroad
Kessler Fellowship

go to undergraduate students opportunities web page

For Graduate Students

European Union Center of Excellence – Dissertation and Pre­Dissertation Fellowships
FLAS - Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships – Summer and Academic Year

go to graduate students funding opportunities web page

For Faculty

EUCE Faculty Research Grant Competition
Faculty European Grant Competition
Grant Program for Faculty Research or Teaching in Germany
EUCE/ESC Small Grants Program
UCIS – EUCE Faculty Fellowship

go to faculty funding opportunities web page


Recent Awardees

European Union Center of Excellence – Dissertation Fellowships

Ali Ashraf – GSPIA, “Global Counterterrorism Cooperation:  U.S. Counterterrorism Policy and Responses from the European Union and the Islamic World”
Hande Sozar – Anthropology, “Unchanging Border, Shifting and Fragmented Frontiers:  Bulgarian Turks’ Movements across Political and Symbolic Borders”
Basak Ural - Political Science, “Public Opinion towards Immigration:  A Heterogeneous Approach”
Galina Zapryanova - Political Science, “Looks Can Be Deceiving:  Explaining Euroscepticism in Central and East Europe”

European Union Center of Excellence – Pre-Dissertation Fellowships

Ali Ashraf – GSPIA, “Global Counterterrorism Cooperation: U.S. Counterterrorism Policy and Responses from the European Union and the Islamic World”
Gunes Erton – GSPIA, “Understanding Limits and Capacities of NGOs as Agents of Europeanization: The Case of Turkey’
Brian Shaev – History, “Role of the French Socialist Party in European Integration”
Basak Ural - Political Science, “Public Opinion towards Immigration:  A Heterogeneous Approach”
Galina Zapryanova - Political Science, “Looks Can Be Deceiving:  Explaining Euroscepticism in Central and East Europe”

EUCE Faculty Research Grant Competition

Despina Alexandrou - Political Science, “The Janus Face of the EU”
Carolyn Ban - GSPIA, “Values and Motivation of European Union Staff”
Michael Brenner - GSPIA, “Diplomacy of Presidential Transition”
Vivian Curran - Law, “History of Person of Jewish or Partially Jewish Ancestry in the Nazi Period in Germany and its Effects in Subsequent Generation”
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran - GSPIA, “Regulation Induced Cross-Media Substitution”
Julia Gray - Political Science, “EU Leverage in the Developing World – The Mercosur and the Andean Community” and “Book Workshop – The Company You Keep”
Isao Kamata - GSPIA, “Regional Trade Impacts of European Integration and Expansion: A Firm-Level Approach”
Ron Linden - Political Science, Turkish Language Study
Martin Staniland - GSPIA, “Transatlantic Dialog about Emissions and Climate Change: Contrasting EU and U.S. Approaches and Prospects for a Global Regime”

Faculty European Grant Competition

Paula Kane - Religious Studies, “Devotions Written in Blood: The Emergence of a Catholic International“
Irina Livezeanu - History, “Romania's New Generation and the Avant-Garde: Ideas, Art and Politics, 1914-1947”
Todd Reeser - French, “Translating the French Nation in the Renaissance”
Adam Shear - Religious Studies, “The Formation of a Canon of Medieval Jewish Thought as an Early Modern Process”
Alison Stones - History of Art & Architecture, “Editing Medart”
Bruce Vernarde - History, “The Rule of St. Benedict: The Carolingian Version”
Brett Wells - French, “Le Francais en Salle de musculation”

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

Erin Alpert - Slavic Languages and Literatures—Polish
Mert Ertunga - French & Italian Languages and Literatures—Italian
Hethba Fatnassi - Political Science—Arabic
Richard Kyle - Law—German
Kathleen Moriarty - French & Italian Languages and Literatures—German
Evgeny Postnikov - GSPIA—German
Jonathan Sherry - History—Spanish

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships – Summer

William Daniel - Political Science, Middlebury College, Williston, VT—German
Julia Finch - History of Art & Architecture, Alliance Francais, Paris, France—French
Benjamin Friedline - Linguistics, Arabic Language Institute, Fez, Morocco—Arabic
Izabel Galleria - History of Art & Architecture, The Decebren School, Budapest, Hungary—Hungarian

Grant Program for Faculty Research or Teaching in Germany

Susan Andrade - English, "Africa in America", teaching at Universitat Augsburg
Jonathan Arac - English, "Masterpieces of American Fiction", teaching at Universitat Augsburg
Randall Halle - German, “Kompaktseminar in Visual Alterity”, teaching at Universitat Augsburg
Adam Shear - Religious Studies, “The Cultural Transition in Renaissance Italy: The Sermons of Judah ben Joseph Moscato”

Harris Miller Scholarships for Participation in Integrated Field Trips Abroad

Elizabeth Steele
Sara Balitski
Dominique Hensley
Kristy Hoskins
Lara Pytlik

All of the above participated in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Science IFTA to Dublin and Belfast, May 2009

Kessler Fellowship

Noah Willumsen - German, History of Art & Architecture, and Philosophy

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