aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] FW: Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant Competition (fwd)

[M T Znayenko <znayenko@andromeda.rutgers.edu>]

From: Kennan Email [mailto:Kennan@wilsoncenter.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:42 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant Competition

DEAR ALL,

The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
in Washington, D.C. would like to encourage prospective candidates to apply
for the Institute's Short-Term Grant. More detailed information about the
process, requirements, and deadlines can be found below. We look forward to
receiving your applications. Also, please feel free to forward this to
anyone you think might be appropriate.


KENNAN INSTITUTE SHORT-TERM GRANTS (up to one month's duration)

The Kennan Institute offers Short-Term Grants to scholars whose research in
the social sciences or humanities focuses on the former Soviet Union
(excluding the Baltic States), and who demonstrate a particular need to
utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the
Washington, D.C. area. Policy-relevant research is preferred. Academic
participants must either possess a doctoral degree or be doctoral candidates
who have nearly completed their dissertations. For non-academics, an
equivalent degree of professional achievement is expected.

Short-term Grants provide a stipend of $100 per day. The Kennan Institute
cannot provide office space for Short-Term scholars. Travel and
accommodation expenses are not directly covered by this grant. There is no
official application form for Short-Term Grants. The applicant is requested
to submit a concise description (700-800 words) of his or her research
project, a curriculum vitae, a statement on preferred dates of residence in
Washington, D.C., and two letters of recommendation specifically in support
of the research to be conducted at the Institute. All of these materials may
be submitted via e-mail except for the letters of recommendation. The
letters should be sent, with signature, either by fax or post. Applicants
should also note their citizenship or permanent residency status in their
materials. Applications should be submitted in clear dark type, printed on
one side only, without staples.

Grant recipients are required to be in residence in Washington, D.C., for
the duration of their grant. Four rounds of competitive selection for
Short-Term Grants are held each year. Closing dates are December 1, March 1,
June 1, and September 1. Applicants are notified of the competition results
roughly seven weeks after the closing date. U.S. citizens, permanent
residents, and non-Americans are eligible for Short-Term Grants, although
funding for non-American applicants is limited. Approximately one in three
American applicants and one in six non-American applicants are awarded
Short-Term Grants in each of the four competition rounds.

The Short-Term Grant Program is supported by the Program for Research and
Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the former Soviet
Union (Title VIII) of the U.S. Department of State and the Kennan Institute
endowment. Continuation of the Short-Term Grant Program in 2007-2008 is
contingent on future funding.

Non-U.S. citizen Short-Term grant winners must be outside of the U.S. before
coming to Washington, D.C. to accept the grant in order to be issued a J-1
Visa. J-1 Visas cannot be issued to individuals in the U.S. on a different
visa.

Please send all application materials to: The Kennan Institute, One Woodrow
Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004-3027. For
more information, please e-mail edita.krunkaityte@wilsoncenter.org , call
(202) 691-4100, or fax (202) 691-4247. More information on this grant
program can be found at www.wilsoncenter.org/kennan .





Kennan Institute

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

One Woodrow Wilson Plaza

1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20004-3027



202-691-4132

202-691-4247 (fax)