Funding Opportunities

FLAS: Apply for a FLAS Award

The following table summarizes which Centers support which languages for FLAS applications. Applications may be obtained via the links to individual Center websites in the left-hand column of the table.

If your question is not answered on the Frequently Asked Questions page, please contact the appropriate FLAS Coordinator with questions.

Download a FLAS language evaluation form here [doc] [pdf]

Center for European Studies

Dutch, French, German, Modern Greek, Italian, European Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and other Western European languages.

Academic Year: Graduate Only
Summer: Graduate applications accepted for all languages. Undergraduate applications accepted for Dutch, Modern Greek, Italian, European Portuguese, and Turkish.

Contact: Erica Edwards

Institute for the Study of the Americas

Yucatec Maya, Brazilian Portuguese, Haitian Creole, and other indigenous and Creole languages of Latin America.

Academic Year: Graduate Only
Summer: Graduate and Undergraduate accepted

Contact: Beatriz Riefkohl Muñiz

Center for Slavic, Eurasion, and East European Studies

Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, and Serbian-Croatian

Academic Year: Graduate Only
Summer: Graduate and Undergraduate accepted

Contact: Jacqueline Olich

The Center for Global Initiatives (also accepting applications on behalf of the African Studies Center and the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations)

Arabic, Kiswahili, Lingala, Wolof, Persian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew, and Urdu

Academic Year: Graduate applications accepted for all languages. Undergraduate AY applications are accepted for Arabic, Kiswahili, Lingala and Wolof.
Summer: Graduate and Undergraduate accepted

**Languages not covered by other Area Studies Centers should be submitted to CGI (i.e.-Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Japanese, etc).

Contact: Beth Ann Kutchma

North Carolina Center for South Asian Studies

Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, Bengali, Tamil, and Persian

Academic Year: Graduate Only

Contact: Peter Landstrom

African Studies Center and the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations

Please direct inquiries to Peter Landstrom