The Institut Français d'Amérique announces the annual competition for fellowships to support research in France for Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D. recipients. Up to four $1500 awards are available for maintenance (not travel) during research in France for a period of at least one month in the summer or fall of 2011.
The Fellowships include:
Gilbert Chinard Research Fellowships
Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship
Edouard Morot-Sir Fellowship in Literature
Candidacy: Final stage of dissertation research, or Ph.D. held no longer than three years before the application deadline on January 15, 2011.
Fields: French studies in the areas of art, economics, history, history of science, linguistics, literature and social sciences.
Application: No application form. Applicants write two pages maximum describing the research project and planned trip (location, length of stay, etc.), and include a curriculum vita. A letter of recommendation from the dissertation director is required for Ph.D. candidates and a letter from a specialist in the field for recent recipients of the Ph.D.
Report: Upon return, the awardee will send a brief report to the Institut Français d'Amérique about the research and the work that was completed in France.
Applications should be sent in hard copy (not e-mail) before January 15, 2011 to:
Dr. Catherine Maley
President, Institut Français d'Amérique
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
CB# 3170
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3170
For more information about the IFA (formerly the Institut Français de Washington) and previous fellowship winners, please visit the website
