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Latest News For Student From the Center
- FLAS Fellowships Available for All Year 2025-2026!
Application Close Date: Friday, January 31, 2025 The Center for Southeast Asian Studies is pleased to announce that applications are now beingaccepted for AY 2025-2026 and summer 2025 Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for the study of Southeast Asia and one of the following languages: Tagalog (Filipino), Cambodian (Khmer), Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese. The fellowship is open… Read more: FLAS Fellowships Available for All Year 2025-2026! - SEASSI Summer 2024 applications open!
The Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) is an eight-week intensive language training program for undergraduates, graduate students, professionals, and non-traditional students. Students learn speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills through classroom instruction and a full range of co-curricular activities. - Congratulations, Yi-Yu Lai!
Please join us in congratulating Yi-Yu Lai for receiving the 2023 Outstanding Graduate Paper Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA)! - Congratulations, Erin McConkey!
Please join us in congratulating Erin McConkey for receiving a Soroptimist Founder Region PhD fellowship! - Congratulations Olivia Meyer!
Congratulations to UH Geography and Environment PhD candidate and two-year Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship recipient Olivia Meyer for being awarded a Fulbright-Hays award to conduct her dissertation research in Bangkok. Her project, “Plastic Panacea- ‘Circular Economies’ and the Political Ecology of Plastic Waste in Thailand” proposes a year of ethnographic research in Thailand.… Read more: Congratulations Olivia Meyer! - We are hiring: Web Resources Coordinator
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UHM is seeking for a Web Resources Coordinator. - FLAS Fellowships Available for Spring 2023!
Two Fellowships available for Spring 2023 to study a Southeast Asian Language! - FLAS Fellowship 2022-23 Deadline Extended
Deadline is extended to August 25th, 2022. - The Tria Kerkvliet Southeast Asia Studies Graduate Fellowship!
Established by Dr. Ben Kerkvliet and his wife Dr. Melinda Tria Kerkvliet. - UHCSEAS awarded NRC grant
UH CSEAS named NRC for Southeast Asia by the US Department of Education. - 2020-2021 FLAS Fellowship Open for Application!
Deadline to apply: January 17, 2020 at 5pm HST. - Embree and Moscotti Scholarships Now Open [Updated 11/15]
These awards support UHM graduate students in their study of Southeast Asia. - 2018-19 FLAS Fellowship Awardees
Congratulations to all our new FLAS recipients! - 2019 Luce Grad Fellowship Deadline Extended
Deadline for applications and letters of reference is October 15, 2018. - FLAS Funding for 2018-2022 Secured
UHM students may continue to apply for this language-focused fellowship. - New Grant: Luce Initiative on Southeast Asia (LuceSEA)Call for proposals expected Fall 2018, with first awards being made in June 2019.
- 2019 Hawaiʻi/Wisconsin Luce Faculty-Student Research Fellowships Open for Application
Proposals sought for research to be conducted during Summer or Fall 2019. - Deadline Extended for Summer ’18 FLAS Fellowship
Deadline is April 24, 2018 at 11:59PM. - Luce Fellowship Applications Open [Updated 4/26/18]
Deadline for undergrads is May 15, 2018. Deadline for grads is September 29, 2018. - John Fee Embree Scholarship Deadline Extended!
Apps due Jan 26. Apply via STAR.