The Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program is a prestigious and competitive federal award from the U.S. Department of Education that allows select Pitt undergraduate and graduate students to devote full time attention to their chosen modern foreign language and area studies specialty. There are separate competitions for the Academic Year FLAS Fellowship and the Summer FLAS Fellowship. Advanced doctoral students conducting field or archival research in a supported world language may also be eligible.

Fellowships available to support study of Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Chinese, Czech, Farsi, French*, Irish (Gaelic), German*, Greek (Modern), Haitian Creole, Hebrew (Modern), Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Russian, Slovak, Spanish*, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and more!

* only available for graduate students studying at the advanced level

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Andrei Muraru was appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to the United States on July 7, 2021. Ambassador Muraru has held positions at the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER); the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Romania and was also personal advisor to the General Director of the National Archives of Romania (CNSAS). Ambassaro Muraru was a member of the Administrative Board of the Romanian Television. He was Senior Advisor to the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, at the Presidential Administration, serving as the head of the Department of Relationship with Public Authorities and Civil Society. Ambassador Muraru was awarded the ”Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” by the President of the Italian Republic, H.E. Sergio Mattarella.

Ambassador Muraru holds a PhD in History from the University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” in Iași. He was an Erasmus-Socrates student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, as well as a Doctoral Fellow at New Europe College and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He received a postdoctoral fellowship at Yad Vashem - The International Institute for Holocaust Research. Ambassador Muraru is the author of the volume “Vișinescu, the Forgotten Torturer: the Prison, the Crimes, the Trial.”

Una conversación con David Altman (Universidad Católica de Chile) sobre Democracy Report 2023, el último informe de V-Dem, con énfasis en la situación de América Latina y el Caribe.

Beginner Swahili students are invited to join this weekly conversation hour to practice the language outside of the classroom.

Come meet international students, make friends, practice conversational English, and have fun together, during these weekly discussion groups coordinated by the English Language Institute. Feel free to bring your lunch :)

Join German Club at Pitt’s weekly meetings during Fall 2023 to converse in German and learn German culture!