The Aina Birnitis Dissertation-Completion Fellowship in the Humanities for Latvia

The Aina Birnitis Scholarship supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. The fellowship provides a $21,000 stipend for one year plus $1,000 for university fees. The program encourages timely completion of the Ph.D., with applicants expected to complete their dissertation within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than fifteen months following the initial disbursement of funds unless an extension has been granted. The fellowship is supported by a bequest of Aina Birnitis, a librarian by profession living in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Proposed projects must be in the humanities and related to Latvia or the Latvians, including Latvian language and history, anthropology, archaeology, ethnography, fine and performing arts, folklore, gender studies, linguistics, literature, philosophy, and religion.