Funding
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Grants, fellowships, scholarships, and other funding opportunities geared toward or applicable to Southeast Asia studies.
For a full list of Southeast-Asia related scholarships and fellowships, including UHM-specific funding, see our Scholarships page.
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship | Deadline: January 31, 2025
For U.S. citizen or permanent resident graduate or undergraduate students at UHM who combine modern Southeast Asian language training at the second-year level or above with a Southeast Asia area studies focus. FLAS recipients must be full-time, classified, degree-seeking undergraduate or graduate students at UHM at the time of the award.
Summer 2024 Benefits for both Undergraduate and Graduate Students: $2,500 stipend and up to $5,000 for tuition for undergraduate and graduate students for summer language classes.
Graduate Student Benefits: $20,000 stipend and up to $18,000 for tuition for up to 9 credits per semester for one academic year.
Undergraduate Student Benefits: $5,000 stipend and up to $10,000 for tuition for up to 12 credits per semester for one academic year.
For details on language and coursework requirements, see our dedicated FLAS page at: https://www.cseashawaii.org/students/scholarships/flas/
Award Notification: Friday, March 15, 2025
Eligible Applicants: Undergraduate & Graduate Students
Click HERE to access the form.
Term of Award: Summer 2025 OR All Year 2025-2026
Call for Applications: Equitable Futures Fellowship: Deadline: April 14, 2024
Many of the world’s biggest problems today stem from systemic imbalances of wealth, access, and power. Solving them requires new approaches to leadership and capabilities to put forth transformative actions and policies that reimagine concepts of power and governance.
In answer to this need, the Equitable Futures Fellowship is a new program from the Doris Duke Foundation and the East-West Center for leaders from a broad range of cultures and backgrounds. Fellows will explore techniques to empower previously unheard voices and resolve inequity in its many forms, including gaps in income, health care, and education; impacts of the climate crisis; and challenges to societal pluralism.
Selected participants will include leaders and creative thinkers across government, communities, advocacy groups, media and technology, artists and entrepreneurs. This expanded view of who can create policies and positive change will ensure an array of unique experiences and ideas.
Through a combination of in-person sessions in Hawai‘i and Aotearoa (New Zealand), plus regular virtual meetings, fellows will hear from top experts and engage in activities designed to enhance their knowledge, leadership capacities, and networks. The enduring skills and bonds they gain are intended to serve their communities and our world in building more equitable futures.
More info:
https://www.eastwestcenter.org/apply/equitable-futures-fellowship?fbclid=IwAR2hSDnk1Vnhs0D3zJP9rwppVRftkQvP6XMHJ4OkgC_nJXsW4lFnlcIpBtI
The Southeast Asia Digital Library Paper Award for undegraduate | Deadline: June 7, 2024
The Southeast Asia Digital Library Paper Award seeks papers from undergraduates concerning original research in Southeast Asian Studies. The first-place winner will receive their choice of two books from the Cornell University Press catalog. Both first- and second-place winning papers will be published on the Southeast Asia Digital Library (http://sea.lib.niu.edu )
More info:
https://einaudi.cornell.edu/discover/news/sea-digital-library-undergraduate-paper-award-3
Postdoc Funding: The Center for Asian Research-Arizona State University & ASU School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies | Deadline: Ongoing
The Center for Asian Research at Arizona State University invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Scholar. The selected candidate will collaborate with ASU faculty in teaching and researching topics related to Asia and its global connections in a variety of capacities, including curriculum development, faculty workshops, and community engagement. The successful candidate will develop and teach one large-enrolling gateway course per semester centered on inter-Asian and interdisciplinary topics such as food, sustainability, culture, or fashion. The initial appointment is made on a fiscal year basis, as a full-time, one-year appointment with the possibility of a one-year renewal based upon satisfactory performance and availability of resources. This position is a non-tenure track, benefits-eligible appointment. This is a grant funded position, contingent on the availability of future grant funding
More info about this funding, visit ASU webpage [new window]
Deadline: Ongoing
Visiting Research Fellowship Program, Center for Indonesian Policy Studies | Deadline: Ongoing
CIPS invites qualified researchers to join our Visiting Research Fellowship Program. The program offers opportunities for both Indonesians and non-Indonesian nationals who are completing their Indonesia-related PhD and post-graduate theses abroad, to conduct field research in Indonesia over a 3-6 month period. CIPS also opens the opportunity for post-doctoral or non-degree fellowships.
If you are interested in the Fellowship Program, please send an e-mail to contact@cips-indonesia.org.
More info about this fellowship, visit CIPS website [new window]
Deadline: Ongoing
Sunlit Residency, The Sue-Je Lee Gage Residency for Human Rights and Social Justice | Deadline: Ongoing
Year-Round Residencies
Weekly residencies are available for 1, 2, 3, or 4 weeks. Monthly residencies may be considered for up to 3 months.
Weekly and Monthly Residencies
Private bedroom work spaces at Sunlit are available throughout the year at a highly subsidized rates for week-long and month-long residencies for writers, scholars, artists, and activists.
Mini-Residencies:
While we prefer residents stay at least 1 week, we aim to be flexible.
Stays of 1, 2, or 3 nights can be arranged.
For more information, see https://www.sunlitresidency.com/residencies
Deadline: Ongoing
ProFellow: 29 Dissertation Research Fellowships for Doctoral Students | Deadline: Ongoing
Dissertation research fellowships provide financial support to doctoral students who are in the stages of conducting research and writing their dissertation. Funding can be used to support travel, field work, supplies, language training, and even living expenses. Often these fellowships have “no strings attached” – their intention is simply to support scholars completing original research in a particular field of study. Check out and bookmark these 30 unique dissertation research fellowships for domestic and international doctoral students enrolled in U.S. universities.
More info about this fellowship, visit ProFellow website [new window]
Deadline: Ongoing
UH Funding (recurring)
- UH System Common Scholarship Application (Deadline: March
- UH Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Presentation Funding
- UH Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Project Funding
- Manoa Political Internship program (Deadline: October 15, March 15)
- For faculty and staff: Office of Student Equity Excellence and Diversity (SEED) Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access and Success (IDEAS) grants (Deadline: Feb 4, Oct 7)
- UH Library Treasures Scholarships (Deadline: April 29, 2022)
- University of Hawai’i System Common Scholarship Application
- Urgent Student Relief Fund
- Manoa’s CARES Act grants
- AAUW Honolulu Career and Leadership Development Grant
- AAUW Honolulu Academic Scholarship
- EWC Graduate Degree Fellowship (MA and PhD students)
- The Society of Asian Art of Hawai’i Inc. Scholarships
- SEALC-GETSEA Language Exchange Committee Tuition Support
- UH Manoa Fulbright US Student Program
- Fulbright US Scholar Program
- Graduate Assistantships at Work@UH
Previous Grants (recurring)
- Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy (PhD students)
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (PhD students)
- Blakemore Freeman Fellowships
- Freeman Awards for Study in Asia
- 2021 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program
- 2021 CAORC – INYA Short Term Fellowships for U.S. Graduate Students
- 2021 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
- Rotary Peace Fellowship 2022
- Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship: Critical Need Language Award
- CKS-LuceSEA Research Fellowship
- Library of Congress Funding
- Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars Network
- The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
- 2022 YSEALI Professional Fellows Program
- ACLS Humanities and Social Sciences Funding
- 2022 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program
- CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship
- CKS Research Fellowships (various)
- Singapore Academies ASEAN Fellowship Programme
- Travel Awards for 2022 AAS Annual Meeting Honolulu
- Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) – Senior Fellowships, Dissertation Research Fellowships, Khmer Language and Culture Program
- The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies
- FY 2022 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program
- Endangered Material Knowledge programme
- The University of Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program (MICHHERS)
- Oregon Community Fund Glen Anthony May Memorial Scholarship opportunity for students of Filipino heritage and/or studying the Philippines
- SEAREG Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
- CKS Junior Resident Fellows Program
- Cambridge University – Postgraduate scholarship and grant opportunities
- 2022 CAORC-INYA Scholars Fellowship Program for U.S. Postgraduate Scholars conducting Research Work on Myanmar/Burma in a Third Country
- 2022 CAORC-INYA Short-Term Fellowships for U.S. Graduate Students Conducting Research on Myanmar/Burma in a Third Country
- The Society of Asian Art of Hawai’i Scholarship
- SEALC-GETSEA Language Tuition Support Award
- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) fellowship program!
- 2023 Blakemore Freeman Fellowships