Grants to Students

The Council on Southeast Asia Studies provides funding to Yale students for research and study abroad through two grant programs below.  Applications are reviewed and fellowships awarded annually.  Application deadline for 2023 fellowship competitions is February 28, 2025.

COUNCIL ON SOUTHEAST ASIA STUDIES GRANT

An endowment from the Ford Foundation allows CSEAS to provide limited fellowship support for the research-related purposes of Yale University graduate and undergraduate students with a demonstrated commitment to the field of Southeast Asian studies (Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, East Timor, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).

Appropriate purposes for support include (but are not limited to) language training, masters thesis summer research, pre-dissertation research field work, and funding supplements required to bring a research project to fruition. We do not fund long-term, basic dissertation research, nor do we consider applications for funding of activities connected with dissertation writeup.

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HAROLD C. CONKLIN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

Thanks to the CuUnjieng Aboitiz family, this fellowship provides support of up to $3000 to Yale graduate or undergraduate students conducting primary source or direct summer or academic year research in the Philippines proper.  Yale recipients of the fellowship will be welcomed upon arrival in the Philippines to a dinner with the donor, who will also endeavor to provide introductions to any relevant members of society and institutions who may be helpful to the recipient's research.

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