The Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at The Ohio State University is seeking applications for the Summer 2025 and Academic Year 2025-26 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship competition under the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship program. Applications are being accepted from undergraduate, graduate, and professional students who are pursuing a course of study requiring advanced foreign language and area studies training. Eligible languages taught at Ohio State include Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Modern Turkish, and Uzbek, however, subject to approval, fellowships may be used for study at other U.S. institutions, to study abroad, or for other languages.

Please read the FLAS webpage to find out more about the fellowship and application process. The fellowship deadline is February 1, 2025, 4:30PM EST.

Recommenders, please take note that the recommendation form has been simplified this year. Applicants will now send you the fully completed form, which you will forward along with your letter of recommendation to Emma Pratt at pratt.124@osu.edu.

All students interested in applying should plan on attending an Information Session.

Questions can be addressed to Emma Pratt, the assistant director of CSEEES, at pratt.124@osu.edu.

Good luck to all applicants!