Latin American Studies Program scholarships available-deadline November 1st

in Funding
September 19th, 2013

BU’s Latin American Studies Program[LASP]  will offer a limited number of  research grants for graduate students to do field work in Latin America or to study Latin Americans, namely Latinos/Latinas, in the US. Each LASP grant is likely to be no larger than $1,000. We highly recommend that all applicants for the LASP competition seek supplementary funds from the department in which they are studying.

The deadline for applications is November 1.  The funding may be used either for pre-doctoral or doctoral research. All recipients of awards must be enrolled at BU at the time they do the research.
If you are interested, your application should include the following:
  1. A two page statement in which you
  2. define your topic,
  3. describe your research methodology,
  4. explain the importance of the project in general and its importance to your graduate  career in particular,
  5. provide information about the amount you are requesting and for what,–that is, submit a budget;
  6. describe your supplementary funding: provide a statement from your department or other funding source, as to the amount of matching funds;
  7. note when you plan to do the field research and for how long;
  8. secure a  letter of recommendation from the faculty member who will oversee your project; you must share your proposal with the advisor before applying,  and your advisor should comment on the proposal in his/her letter.

Send your submissions electronically to seckstei@bu.edu [with the header ‘Graduate Field Grant Application’] AND send a ‘hard copy’ to Susan Eckstein, Sociology, 100 Cummington St, BU]. All materials must be received by November 1, 2013.

Good luck, and we hope you are interested in this research opportunity!