[Aaus-list] FW: 1) Fulbright; 2) Conference Travel Grants: Holodomor Research and Education Consortium

[Chernetsky, Vitaly A]

Dear Colleagues,
FYI.

Best,
VC

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Vitaly Chernetsky
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Director, Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
tel. (785) 864-4238 (CREES); 864-2359 (Slavic)
vchernetsky at ku.edu
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From: Christine Worobec [worobec at niu.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 4:28 PM
Subject: Funding

1. The Fulbright Scholar Program

offers teaching, research or combination teaching and research awards in over 125 countries for the
2017-2018 academic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and
administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent
scholars and many others.


For eligibility factors, detailed application guidelines and review criteria, please visit our website,
http://cies.org/program/core-fulbright-us-scholar-program.
You may also wish to register for one of our webinars,
http://www.cies.org/event-type/webinar-schedule
or join My Fulbright, http://www.cies2.org/s/1064/index.aspx, a
resource center for applicants interested in the program.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens and the current competition,
http://www.cies.org/application-login, will close on August 1, 2016.

Please contact europeeurasia at iie.org to arrange a virtual advising session.

2. Conference Travel Grants: Holodomor Research and Education Consortium

The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces its conference Empire,
Colonialism, and Famine in Comparative Historical Perspective, to be held at the University of Toronto
on October 28, 2016. Travel grants are available (up to $800.00) to support scholars in deepening
their understanding of colonialism and famine through engagement with leading scholars in the
field. (Priority will be given to graduate students.

Please see the application procedure below and on the HREC website: www.holodomor.ca Note that
awardees will be eligible for funding to attend a larger conference on the same topic to be held in
Kyiv, Ukraine, in the spring of 2017.)

Travel Grant Application Procedure:

1.  Submit a statement (500-750 words) answering the questions:
How will your attendance enrich or support you in your research, teaching and/or career?
What impact will the study of the Holodomor, empire and famine likely have on your work or
career in the short and long term (in terms of publications and teaching, for example)?

2.  Submit a current curriculum vitae/resume.

3.  Submit a letter of support from a professor (if a graduate student) or colleague.
Please submit application by August 16, 2016, via email to hrec at ualberta.ca with subject line,
Conference Travel Grant. 
Applicants will receive notification of award status by August 23, 2016.

https://networks.h-net.org/node/10000/discussions/131426/conference-empire-colonialism-and-famine-comparative-historical

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