31.05.2007
I. Lists from the Government The National Security Language Initiative provides funding for Russian programs and students. The Office of Post-Secondary Education (OPSE) is responsible for all Congressional administered grants. The have a wide list of grants available here. As part of the OPSE, The Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education (FIPSE) administers $21,988,980 worth of grants including many that are open to any institution or department. Many grants will soon be partially administered through a central site, Grants.gov. II. Lists From Other Organizations LanguagePolicy.org gives perhaps the most extensive listing of grants. AAASS lists several grants for Slavic scholars. Fulbright offers several programs for funding Russians to go to America to study or teach. III. Grants for Specific Projects National Endowment for the Arts Seminar Grants These grants support national faculty development programs in the humanities for school teachers, and for college and university teachers. Seminars and institutes may be as short as two weeks or as long as six weeks. The duration of a program should allow for full and thorough treatment of the topic. National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowships Through fellowships to published translators of exceptional talent, the Arts Endowment supports projects that involve the specific translation of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. For the past several years, Translation Projects have operated on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose available one year and fellowships in poetry available the next. This year, prose, poetry, and drama all are eligible for translation. Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry The translation of poetry from languages not currently available to English readers and poetry which has not been translated or merits a new translation. Projects, which explore the art and the process of translation, are also encouraged. The foundation does not fund publications of poetry-in-translation; it rather makes it a priority to give grants to individual translators. Samples from the proposed translation should accompany the application. Max Hayward Fellowship in Russian Literature St. Antony's College invites applications for the Max Hayward Fellowship in Russian Literature for the academic year 2006-2007. The holder may engage in research, criticism, editing, translation, preparation of a thesis for publication, or other forms of literary scholarship, broadly defined, which may embrace themes on literature, culture, and society. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Research Programs Projects supported by National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships cover a variety of activities. They may contribute to scholarly knowledge, to the advancement of teaching, or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Such work might eventually produce scholarly articles, a monograph on a specialized subject, a book-length treatment of a broad topic, an archaeological site report, a translation, an edition, or other scholarly tool in either traditional or electronic formats.
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