Student Funding

Funding opportunities geared toward or applicable to students in Southeast Asia studies.
CSEAS offers various funding opportunities for students specializing in Southeast Asia studies. Unless otherwise noted, CSEAS scholarships and fellowships have been consolidated on the UH Star System. Click “Scholarships” and use the advanced search to look for the scholarships/fellowships listed below.
UH-Administrated Funding
The John Fee Embree Endowed Scholarship | Deadline: TBA
The scholarship is earmarked to assist graduate students in anthropology or sociology (or other disciplines in the absence of anthropology or sociology applicants) who are concentrating their academic work on Southeast Asia related studies at UHM. Non-US citizens are eligible to apply. Administered by CSEAS.
The Albert Moscotti Fellowship | Deadline: TBA
This fellowship is to assist full-time, classified graduate students in a degree program at UHM in any department or program in the arts, humanities or social sciences whose area of focus is Southeast Asia. Non-US citizens are eligible to apply. Administered by CSEAS.
More UH-administrated funding opportunities can be found here: https://uhfoundation.org/about/departments/scholarships
External Funding
List of external funding opportunities can found here.
Graduate Assistantships
List of Graduate Assistantship opportunities can be found here.
UH Funding (Recurring)
- AAUW
- EWC Graduate Degree Fellowship (MA and PhD students)
- The Society of Asian Art of Hawai’i Inc. Scholarships
- Fulbright US Scholar Program
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
- Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program
- CAORC – INYA Short Term Fellowships for U.S. Graduate Students
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
- Rotary Peace Fellowship
- Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship: Critical Need Language Award
- Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars Network
- The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
- YSEALI Professional Fellows Program
- ACLS Humanities and Social Sciences Funding
- Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program
- CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship
- Singapore Academies ASEAN Fellowship Programme
- 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
- Endangered Material Knowledge programme
- SEAREG Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
- CAORC-INYA 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