For graduate students specializing in Southeast Asian studies. Open to registered Berkeley graduate students for travel support to Latin American and Caribbean countries. Applicants must document foreign language proficiency. Provides funds for field research while providing support from selected members of the public who subsidize the research and act as short-term field assistants. Graduate students may apply as independent field directors with a sponsoring faculty advisor.
Most projects are two to four weeks.
They require resume, brief description of project and reason financial assistance is needed. Rolling, grants made in April. For students enrolled in US universities. Only partial financial support is provided. Awards fellowships to graduate students outside Johns Hopkins University to conduct advanced field research in Cuba.