Opportunity: Stephen F. Cohen-Robert C. Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Program in Russian Historical Studies

The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies invites applications for the 2022-2023 Stephen F. Cohen-Robert C. Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Program in Russian Historical Studies, funded by the KAT Charitable Foundation.

The application deadline is January 21, 2022.

For the 2022-2023 academic year, the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Fellowship Program will provide:

  • up to five Dissertation Research Fellowships, with a maximum stipend of $25,000, to doctoral students at US and Canadian universities, who are citizens or permanent residents of the US, to conduct dissertation research in Russia.
  • as of 2022, ASEEES is also offering a new Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship for Women’s and Gender Studies with the same provisions and eligibility as the other Dissertation Research Fellowships.
  • a Dissertation Completion Fellowship, with a maximum stipend of $25,000, to a doctoral student at a US or Canadian university, who is a citizen or permanent resident of the US, to complete their dissertation during the fellowship tenure.

FELLOWSHIP PROJECT SCOPE

For both the Research Fellowship and Dissertation Completion Fellowship:

  • The dissertation topic must be in 19th – early 21st century Russian historical studies
  • The dissertation topic can be in cultural, economic, intellectual, political, or social historical studies
  • The dissertation may be in any discipline

ELIGIBILITY

For both the Research Fellowship and Dissertation Completion Fellowship, applicant must:

  • be a citizen or permanent resident of the US
  • be a doctoral student at a US or Canadian university
  • be a student member of ASEEES at the time of the application submission
  • have a dissertation research topic that falls within the fellowship project scope (see above), but may be in any discipline

More detailed information and application materials here.