Graduate Summer Language Study

Summer funding for current graduate students in the Slavic Department to attend summer Polish-language courses in Poland. (U.S. programs would be eligible as well). This grant could be used to pay tuition, fees, the summer programs room and board costs, required textbooks, and air travel for any established summer program, up to $4000 per student per summer. Any given student could use this funding twice during their time at Harvard. We aim to offer up to two such fellowships a year. Preference will be given to graduate students in Slavic or Comparative Literature, or other graduate students who have demonstrated an interest in studying Polish literature at Harvard, for example, by signing up for the graduate secondary field in Slavic, or by taking relevant literature courses in the Slavic Department. Should there be more than two requests in a given year, the recipients would be chosen by a small committee of two or three Slavic Department faculty, assembled each year by the Chair.

Undergraduate Summer Language Study

Summer funding for current undergraduate students to attend summer Polish-language courses in Poland. (U.S. programs would be eligible as well). This grant could be used to pay tuition, fees, the summer programs room and board costs, and air travel for any established summer program, up to $4000 per student per summer. Any given undergraduate student could use this funding once during their time at Harvard. We aim to offer up to three such fellowships a year. Preference will be given to Slavic concentrators or concentrators in other Departments at Harvard who have demonstrated an interest in studying Polish at Harvard, for example, by taking relevant language and literature courses in the Slavic Department. Should there be more than three requests in a given year, the recipients would be chosen by a small committee of two or three Slavic Department faculty, assembled each year by the Chair.

Details:

Applications for summer 2022 undergraduate and graduate study are due by February 28, 2022, at 11:59pm EST. Decisions will be made by the end of March 2022.

Only Harvard University students are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to students who are currently taking or have taken Polish language or literature at Harvard. Please closely follow Harvard's Travel Guidance (https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/travel-guidance/) and adjust your plans accordingly.

Required documents:

1) Statement of purpose, discussing student's interest in Polish language and culture, relevant courses taken in the Slavic Department, and the choice of the summer program, including an alternate plan in case international travel is not possible (this may include domestic travel in the United States or remote language study).

2) Budget (program costs, air travel, lodging, etc.), including an alternate plan in case international travel is not possible.

3) Transcript (grade report from the Registrar), including all courses taken at Harvard.

4) CV.

Note: A short final report and financial accounting will be required after the end of the summer school.

If you have any technical questions, please email Slavic Department Administrator, Penelope Skalnik at pskalnik@fas.harvard.edu.

If you have any questions about transferring credits (which may not always be possible) please email the Director of the Language Program, Dr. Steven Clancy at sclancy@fas.harvard.edu.

If you have any questions about the application process and the choice of the summer school, please email Polish language Preceptor, Dr. Iryna Kovalchuk at ikovalchuk@fas.harvard.edu (or alternatively Polish literature Professor Aleksandra Kremer at akremer@fas.harvard.edu).