Fellowships and Student Grants

Fellowships for graduate study will be awarded on a competitive basis to those who are admitted to the doctoral programs. (Financial assistance is not available for Master’s degree work.) As is the case in all graduate applications, applicants will need to present a record of superior academic accomplishment, letters of reference from current or former college or university professors, and also take the Graduate Record Examination.

Student Grants for Study of Islam and Muslim Societies

The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies will distribute grants of up to $3,000, and the awards will be made on a competitive basis.  

Among the projects the Abbasi Program supports are:

Graduate Student Research
The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies invites proposals from Stanford graduate students for research projects pertaining to Islam and to Muslims in Muslim-majority and -minority societies.  The projects may relate to study to be pursued during the summer or during the academic year.

Workshops
Workshops consist of a group of students, in collaboration with a faculty advisor, who wish to organize lectures, speaker series, symposia, exchange of working papers, etc. Faculty, visiting scholars, graduate and undergraduate students come together in multidisciplinary scholarly exchange of research-in-progress, in considerations of perspectives on current and non-current issues in the academic field of Islamic studies.   Within the parameters of "Islam and Muslim societies," there are no limitations on a potential topic or agenda for a Workshop.

Summer Internship Grants for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Awards support internships in institutions, field study, and intensive language study--abroad or in the U.S.  
Applicants must be students  in good standing at Stanford, are eligible for funding on the condition that  they will be enrolling as undergraduates or graduate students the following academic year.  It is expected that the funded projects will be of at least 6 weeks' duration.

--To apply, please submit a CV, brief proposal describing the study or project to be undertaken, a detailed budget, graduate transcript, one letter of recommendation from the person's thesis advisor, or from the primary faculty member with whom she/he is working, and evidence, when pertinent, of formal arrangements with a chosen organization.  


Application deadline:  proposals are to be e-mailed on or before April 3rd, 2009 by 5 p.m. Grant applications are reviewed by an interdisciplinary committee of faculty members affiliated with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, and decisions will be made within a month after the deadline for applications. 

SUBMIT APPLICATIONS TO BURCAK KESKIN-KOZAT BY EMAIL AT abbasiprogram@ stanford.edu