Çağatay Summer Travel Fellowship

CMES Cagatay Summer Travel Fellowship

Award Amount

Up to $3000

Competition Type

Yale

 

Description:

The Council on Middle East Studies of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies invites applications for the Çağatay Summer Travel Fellowship for research in Turkey. This Fellowship is made possible through a 2007 gift from Selma Çağatay-Searfoss.

The general purpose of the fellowship is to increase understanding of Turkey among Yale students, with a focus on culture and language. Open also to projects on society, economics, politics and other areas of interest.

One or more fellowships ranging from $500 up to $3,000 will be awarded for summer travel and field work expenses in Turkey for relevant research, study projects, or language study.

A written report of the experience will be submitted at the completion of the award. Recipients may be asked to offer a seminar or presentation of their field project results upon their return to the Yale campus. Any publication or public presentations resulting from their projects should acknowledge the support of the Çağatay Summer Travel Fellowship.

 

Application Information:

ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE THROUGH THIS DATABASE.

It is the applicant’s responsibility to see that the complete application reaches us by the deadline; applications cannot be considered without this information. A complete application includes the project proposal (abstract of 150 words or less plus a proposal of up to two additional pages); budget (including information about other possible sources of funding); resume; Yale transcript; language evaluation (or personal statement indicating relevant language courses taken and/or attesting to knowledge of the language at the site of study); and letter of recommendation.

Applicants will be notified of the Committee’s decision by late April.

For more information contact the Council on Middle East Studies at cmes@yale.edu.

 

Special Eligibility Requirements:

Graduating students and students not returning to Yale following the project are ineligible.

Restrictions to Use of Award:

IMPORTANT NOTE: All undergraduate students must adhere to the Yale University International Travel Policy. For more information go to http://www.yale.edu/yalecol/international/travel/policy.html

Yale University policy requires that certain types of research projects involving human subjects be reviewed and approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to the start of the study to ensure that the project meets University Policy and any other applicable regulations. To see if your project needs to be reviewed, for advice on working with human subjects, and for more information about the IRB process and requirements go to http://www.yale.edu/hsc/Investigator/Student_projects.pdf .

 

Contact Information:

For questions about this application, please contact Cristin Siebert at cristin.siebert@yale.edu