Guidelines and Supplemental Information
about
France Chicago Center Travel Grants and
Fellowships
- François Furet Travel
Grant, six $2000 awards.
- De la Vauvre Summer Research
Fellowship*, one $5000 award
- Sciences Po Academic Year
Research Fellowship, one
$13,500 award.
Application Deadline:
All applications must be submitted by 5:00
pm on April 29, 2013.
Required Documents:
A complete dossier has the following
documents:
- A completed online application form (link
here)
- A proposal narrative and
justification. (see below)
- One letter of recommendation from a
University of Chicago faculty member or
instructor.
- If applicable, transcripts from other
universities you may have attended.
(Graduate students needn't include
undergraduate transcripts.) We will
secure your UofC transcript directly
from the Office of the Registrar.
- A resumé (undergraduates) or
curriculum vitae (graduate students).
Eligibility:
College students who are registered in the
spring of 2013, and who plan to return in
the fall of 2013 may apply for a
François Furet Travel Grant. Under
no circumstances may a College student who
plans to graduate in the spring or summer
of 2013 be considered for an award.
College applicants must demonstrate either
through course work or through placement
exams proficiency in French at the 202
level or higher before the end of the
spring quarter, 2013.
François Furet Travel Grants are
open to undergraduate, graduate, and
professional school students. The De la
Vauvre
Summer Research Fellowship is open to
graduate students in the Humanities and
the Social Sciences, as well as to
students in the Divinity School and the
Harris School of Public Policy. The
Sciences Po Exchange fellowship is open to
PhD students in disciplines taught at the
host institution in Paris. There is no
minimum language requirement for graduate
and professional school students.
Geographical Restrictions:
Applicants for the François Furet
Travel Grant and the De la Vauvre Summer
Research Fellowship must propose to
undertake research or an intensive
language study program in France or in one
of her overseas departments or
territories. The recipient of the Sciences
Po Research Fellowship will be expected to
live in Paris and to participate in the
academic life of the Institut d'Etudes
Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).
Award Tenure:
College students receiving a
François Furet Travel Grant are
expected to use the award during the
summer of 2013. Under no circumstances may
College students receiving the award use
it for travel during the regular academic
year, nor may the award be deferred.
Graduate and professional school students
receiving any award must complete their
research project or fellowship tenure
before the end of September 2014.
Proposal Narrative:
Proposal narratives for research projects
should include a short summary of your
overall project (BA paper, MA thesis, PhD
dissertation) as well as your specific
research goals while in France. Be sure to
include resources that you plan to consult
in France (archives, faculty abroad who
will provide direction, people to be
interviewed, etc.), as well as specific
reasons why a research stay in France is
critical to the success of your larger
project. Research proposals are typically
three to five pages for undergraduates,
and five to eight pages for graduate
students. Language study proposal
narratives should include information
about the applicants' motivation for
undertaking intensive formal language
study in France as well as a description
of the program. Language study narratives
are typically no longer than two or three
pages in length.
Document Submission:
All supporting material materials with the
exception of the letter of recommendation
(the proposal narrative and justification;
the CV or resumé, the transcript—if
applicant is a graduate student who has
completed graduate work elsewhere) should
be in pdf or docx formats and uploaded at
the time that the application is
submitted.
The letter of recommendation should be
submitted by your recommender directly to
Dan Bertsche either in hard copy form (fac
ex: SSRB; office, Gates-Blake 513) or as
an attachment (ddb1@uchicago.edu).
Multiple Awards:
Students may apply for more than one award
by checking multiple boxes on the
application form (link to application
form). No duplication of other
documentation is required. The committee
will first select the Science Po fellow,
then the summer research fellow, and
finally the six François Furet
Travel Grant recipients. In this way, a
multiple-award applicants' status
vis-à-vis a larger award will not
be jeopardized by a request to be
considered for a smaller award. Persons
applying for more than one award should
understand that the committee will not
confer two different awards to a single
applicant in a given year.
Notification of Award and
Disbursement of Award Checks:
All applicants will receive preliminary
notification of the status of their
application via e-mail no later than
Wednesday, May 24, 2013. Those
offered an award will be asked to formally
accept the award, and—shortly after doing
so—will make arrangements for the
disbursement of their award checks through
the Dean of Students office in their
division (graduate students) or the
College (undergraduate students).
Reporting:
Recipients of all awards are expected to
submit a final report to the France
Chicago Center within one month of their
return to the United States along with an
original (or photocopy) of the airline
receipt.
Modern France Workshop:
All graduate students working on “things
French” are encouraged to participate in
the Modern France Workshop. Workshop
participation is neither required of
fellowship and travel grant applicants,
nor is it a primary factor used to
evaluate applications. However, workshop
participation levels may be used by the
selection committee to distinguish between
two closely ranked candidates. Fellowship
recipients should understand that after
their fellowship tenure, they may be asked
to present their work in the Modern France
Workshop.
More Information:
For more information, contact Dan Bertsche
at the France Chicago Center
(773-702-3662, fcc@uchicago.edu).
* Made possible through a generous
commitment by Hervé and Isabelle de
la Vauvre.
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