DESCRIPTION OF FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH AWARDS

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

Awards: CILAS has been awarded three fellowships for the academic year. The award pays tuition and fees plus an $14,000 stipend. Fellowship recipients will be required to study Brazilian Portuguese or advanced Spanish as part of their curriculum during the tenure of the award.

Eligibility: All graduate students who are accepted for enrollment or are enrolled in a program that combines modern foreign language training with

• Area or international studies in Latin America,
• Research and training in the international aspects of professional and other fields of study in Latin America,
• Good academic standing, and
• Citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

Students who will complete their course of study in June of the current academic year are not eligible. Recipients must use the fellowship to pursue Latin American studies, either as part of their course work at UCSD or as field research required for their degree. Applications will be considered in the humanities and social science disciplines, as well as other professional fields which focus on Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

Procedures: See Application Requirements for basic application procedures. In the proposal, an applicant for an academic year FLAS should include: a statement about the student's proposed language course work for following academic year, a brief statement on their current research interests; and an indication whether the applicant will incur in-state or out-of-state tuition and fees.

Reporting Requirements: Awardees must complete a confidential self-evaluation form at the end of their study and return to CILAS for transmittal to the Department of Education. Awardees must notify CILAS promptly of any changes in their proposed course of study. Recipients of this fellowship are limited to two .25 Teaching Assistant appointments during the academic year in which they receive the award.

Summer Intensive Language Fellowships

Awards: UCSD CILAS, as part of the San Diego Consortium with SDSU, received funding for two (and possibly three) SILF fellowships which pay a stipend of $2,400 for living expenses and up to $3,600 for cost of tuition/fees and travel. This fellowship is for students who wish to register for formal domestic language programs of intensive language study at the beginning, intermediate, or advanced level. The fellow may study at any approved institution in the United States or abroad which offers the equivalent of an academic year of language instruction in Brazilian Portuguese or Amerindian languages during the summer. Note that it is the candidate's responsibility to register for the program and to ensure that it complies with the Title VI Intensive Summer Institute Guidelines. Title VI Intensive Summer Institute Guidelines state that for purposes of this Fellowship, "intensive summer language programs are those that offer a minimum of 120 contact hours of advanced-level language instruction and 140 contact hours of beginning- or intermediate-level instruction. In order to be considered intensive, summer language programs should generally last a minimum of 6 weeks; longer programs are preferable because they are more likely to provide the student with the equivalent of a full year of language study." Previous fellowships have been granted for Brazilian Portuguese, advanced Spanish, Maya, Nahuatl, Quetchua and Haitian Creole. The program should be affiliated with a U.S. university and must be pre-approved by CILAS and the U.S. Department of Education. Comprehensive lists of summer programs in lesser-taught Latin American languages offered in university language programs throughout the United States can be found on the CLASP website. Additional lists of schools for Latin American languages can be found on LANIC and University of Michigan LACS.

Eligibility: the same as FLAS.

Procedures: See Application Requirements for basic application procedures. In addition, please include a copy of the language program brochure, including applicable fees and an estimate of travel costs. To qualify as an intensive language program, 120 hours of supervised language instruction is required. To study outside of the U.S. you must be at an advanced level of the chosen language; for beginning and intermediate levels, study abroad is only permitted if a language program is NOT offered in the United States

Reporting Requirements: Awardees must complete a confidential self-evaluation form at the end of their study and return to CILAS for transmittal to the Department of Education.

CILAS Field Dissertation Grants

Awards: CILAS expects to make approximately five to seven awards for dissertation field research. These awards would be for field research between June 2001 and May 2002. Past recipients of CILAS field research grants are not eligible for this competition. Awards range from $500 to $2,000. The awards may be used for travel and research in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

Eligibility: All UCSD graduate students.

Procedures: See Application Requirements for basic application procedures.
In addition, the program proposal should include: an estimate of the work to be accomplished and probable future benefits of this research for the applicant and for scholarship; a plan for affiliation with a host institution and reciprocity in the field; and a proposed budget of costs.

Reporting Requirements: Within a month after the end of the fieldwork, all grantees will submit a two-page report to CILAS and to the host-country affiliate. Graduate students will also file a copy with their advisor. These reports should outline the activities during the field experience, the results of the research, and the likely future development of that line of inquiry. In addition, all beneficiaries are expected to acknowledge the assistance from CILAS in any thesis, publication, or other product resulting from CILAS-supported research.

Tinker Field Research Grants

Awards:CILAS expects to make approximately 15 awards from a budget of $20,000. Awards range from $800 to $2,000. The awards are restricted to direct travel expenses only, such as airfare and local travel. Incidental expenses and per diem are not allowed. These awards would be for brief periods of pre-dissertation field research for travel outside the United States (i.e. to Spain, Portugal, Brazil or Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, between June and December of the calendar year of the competition. The intent of the award is to provide graduate students with their first experience in developing independent research projects and conducting hands-on field research in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. The focus of the field research is to reflect the Tinker Foundation's broad areas of interest, i.e., economic policy and governance, environmental policy and those targeted social science disciplines having strong public policy implications.

Eligibility: All pre-dissertational UCSD graduate students.

Procedures: See Application Requirements for basic application procedures.
In addition, the program proposal should include: an estimate of the work to be accomplished and probable future benefits of this research for the applicant and for scholarship; a plan for affiliation with a host institution and reciprocity in the field; and a proposed budget of costs.

Reporting Requirements: Within a month after the end of the fieldwork, all grantees will submit a two-page report to CILAS and to the host-country affiliate. Graduate students will also file a copy with their advisor. These reports should outline the activities during the field experience, the results of the research, and the likely future development of that line of inquiry. The copy furnished to CILAS must be accompanied by all receipts and other documentation of travel expenditures in order for CILAS to reconcile the travel award with the UCSD Travel Accounting. In addition, all beneficiaries are expected to acknowledge the assistance from the Tinker Foundation in any thesis, publication, or other product resulting from Tinker-supported research.

REQUIREMENTS OF ALL GRANT RECIPIENTS

If the project involves any contact with humans, through the acquisition of private data or interviews, the applicant must fill out a Human Subjects Committee Application Form prior to receiving an award. To obtain approval or resolve any doubts on this issue, contact the Human Subjects Office, Medical School, 0052, University Center Bldg. 202, 858-534-4520. If you do not comply, you may not be able to utilize the research findings in your thesis.

EVALUATION OF APPLICANTS

An interdisciplinary committee composed of faculty will evaluate the fellowship proposals. Faculty committee members are representative of the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and other professional schools which focus on Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

FLAS and SILF FELLOWSHIPS: Priority is given to less commonly taught languages of Latin America. Students should show potential for high academic achievement based on such indices as GPA and technical competence.

CILAS DISSERTATION AWARDS: Applications will be on the basis of scholarly achievement and technical competence of the applicant, originality and importance of the project, and a plan for affiliation or cooperation with an appropriate institution in the proposed host country. Such plans should be initiated but need not be completed prior to the submission of the application. There are no specific thematic priorities. Candidates may present proposals on any subject in any field.

TINKER RESEARCH AWARDS: Applications will be on the basis of scholarly achievement and technical competence of the applicant, originality and importance of the project, and a plan for affiliation or cooperation with an appropriate institution in the proposed host country. Such plans should be initiated but need not be completed prior to the submission of the application. Proposals must be pre-dissertational: others will be screened out.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

All graduate student applications for grants and fellowships from CILAS must include 1) the cover sheet of the application, 2) one-page outline of a budget, and a timetable or itinerary, 3) three-to-five page project or program proposal 4) a curriculum vitae, 5) list of awards and fellowships received, and awards and fellowships applied for in the last six months, 6) transcripts, and 7) two letters of recommendation from UCSD faculty.

DEADLINE
All these materials must be received in the Office of Latin American Studies by 4:00pm on the due date. Fellowship recipients will be notified in early May.

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