Graduate Research Travel Grants

Eligibility | Application

Overview
The Davis Center offers grants to Harvard graduate students for research travel to the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe. Students who are not eligible for FLAS summer language fellowships may apply for a travel grant to support formal language study in a foreign country.

The maximum stipend is generally $4,000 and can be used during the summer of 2009 or during the 2009-10 academic year for a minimum stay of six weeks.

View list of recent Graduate Research Travel Grant recipients.

Eligibility
• Ph.D. candidates at Harvard
• First-year master's degree candidates in the Program in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia

Application

Applications for summer 2009 and the 2009-10 academic year are due on February 27, 2009. The Davis Center uses the GSAS Standard Application for Summer Fellowships, available online at the GSAS Fellowships Office web site.

Note that while a number of funding sources use the GSAS Standard Application, the submission process varies. Be sure to follow the instructions outlined in the application cover sheet for each funding source.

Download the Davis Center's application cover sheet and instructions.

Download 2009-10 application form as PDF file (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Please submit the completed application to:

Graduate Research Travel Grants
Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Contact:Donna Griesenbeck, griesenb@fas.harvard.edu, 617.495.1194