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CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC
ASSISTANCE
84.022: International: Overseas: Doctoral Dissertation
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| PROGRAM AND AWARD | FINANCIAL AND INFORMATION CONTACTS |
| ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS | FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFO. |
| APPLICATION AND AWARD PROCESS | INFORMATION CONTACTS |
| RELATED PROGRAMS | ASSISTANCE CONSIDERATIONS |
| PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS | POST ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS |
Applicant Eligibility: Institutions of higher education may apply.
Beneficiary Eligibility: Candidate for Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship must: (1a) Be a citizen or national of the United States; (1b) be a permanent resident of the United States; or (1c) provide evidence from the Immigration and Naturalization Service that he or she is in the United States for other than a temporary purpose with the intention of becoming a citizen or permanent resident; (2) be a graduate student in good standing at an institution of higher education who, when the fellowship period begins, has been admitted to candidacy in a doctoral degree program in modern foreign languages and area studies at that institution; (3) plan a teaching career in the United States upon graduation; (4) possess adequate skills in the foreign language(s) necessary to carry out the dissertation research project.
Credentials/Documentation: This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-87.
Preapplication Coordination: The graduate dean of a college or university or his or her representative will be responsible for accepting, screening, and forwarding through the Department of Education's Application Control Center to the Advanced Training and Research Team those individual applications which meet the institution's technical and academic criteria and the program's eligibility requirements. Candidates for dissertation research fellowships apply directly to the institutions at which they are enrolled in a Ph.D. program, not to the Department of Education. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-102.
Application Procedure: Institutions should request application materials from the Advanced Training and Research Team. Students should address requests for application forms to the office of the graduate dean or his or her representative at the graduate schools at which they are enrolled in a Ph.D. program. This program is excluded from coverage under OMB Circular No. A-110.
Award Procedure: The Advanced Training and Research Team will make initial selection and recommendation of fellowship recipients with the advice of a panel of specialists in foreign language and area studies and comments by U.S. embassies and binational commissions in the proposed countries of research. Selections are subject to review and final approval by the presidentially appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. The grant covering successful graduate students is made to the applicant, i.e., institutions of higher education.
Deadlines: Generally, the last week in October or first week in November of the year preceding the year of research. Exact date is announced in the Federal Register.
Range of Approval/Disapproval Time: About 200 days.
Appeals: Not applicable.
Renewals: Not applicable.
Criteria for Selecting Proposals: Quality of proposed project (maximum 45 points); qualifications of the beneficiary (maximum 45 points); and priorities (10 points) if announced in the Notice of Closing Date.
Examples of Funded Projects: Imagined Democracies, Nocturnal Communities: The Production of Political Space in Cote d'lvoire; Strategies for Survival: Women, Power, and HIV Risk in Uganda; Spirit Possession in Northern Brazil; The Exus of Umbanda Forest Conservation and Common Property Management in Oaxaca, Mexico; Continuity and Change: Cooperatives in Contemporary Rural China; Strangers in their Homeland: The Ethnic Adaptation of Japanese-Brazilian Return Migrants and the Japanese Sociopolitical Response Towards Co-management; Conservation, Indigenous Communities and the Philippine State Disease; Social Change and Gender Among the Huli of Papua New Guinea; Language and Identity in Ukraine: The Politics of Interaction Propaganda vs. "Stalinization" of the Soviet Press, 1922-1930; Commemoration of Nation and Class in Two Palestinian Villages; Educating Ethnicity: Cypriot Conflict and the Revision of History; Education and Youth Culture in Kerala, South India, Trekking Tourism, Traditionalism and Development in a Nepali Village; Women's Political NGOs in the Emerging Democracy of Ghana; and Community Building among Indonesian Transmigrants: The Challenges of Ecological Sustainability and Social Harmony.
Range and Average of Financial Assistance: $8,583 to $60,274; $22,000.
In fiscal year 1999, 95 fellowships were awarded to graduate students.
Federal Agency: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Type of Assistance: Project Grants.
Obligations: (Grants) FY 99 $2,095,000; FY 00 est $2,087,000; and FY 01 est $3,141,000.
Budget Account Number: 91-0201-0-1-502.
Authorization: Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, as amended, Sections 102(b)(6) and 105(d), Public Law 87-256, 22 U.S.C. 2451.
Regulations, Guidelines, and Literature: Final regulations published in the Federal Register on December 19, 1983.
Regional or Local Office: Not applicable.
Headquarters Office: Advanced Training and Research Team, International Education and Graduate Programs Service, Office of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20202-5331. Contact: Karla Ver Bryck Block. Phone: (202) 401-9774. Use the same number for FTS.
(See Appendix IV for more contact info.)
Formula and Matching Requirements: None.
Length and Time Phasing of Assistance: Awards are made for at least six but not more than 12 months.
Uses and Use Restrictions: Funds will be available to enable doctoral candidates to complete field research for their dissertations. Generally awards will not be available for projects focusing primarily on Western Europe or countries where the United States has no diplomatic representation. Financial provisions include basic stipend computed on the cost-of-living in the country where research is to be conducted; cost of round trip jet economy air fare for award recipient only; baggage allowance, if justified; dependents allowance for accompanying dependents based on cost-of-living in host country; project allowance to be utilized for the purchase of expendable materials, services, and supplies, tuition payments to foreign institutions, and local travel expenditures; funds to secure health and accident insurance.
Reports: Fellows: Terminal reports through the grantee institution no later than 90 days after the termination date of the award. Institutions: fiscal reports.
Audits: Fiscal records of institutions subject to Education Department audit at any time within 5 years after close of the fiscal year in which expenditures are made.
Records: Records bearing on receipt and expenditure of funds to be made available for inspection by the Department for three years after close of fiscal year in which expenditures are made if departmental audit has occurred by that time, until audit or for five years following the end of the budget period in which the grant expired (whichever is later) or until resolution of any outstanding audit questions.
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