Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Offered by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellowships provide a maximum stipend of $28,000 for doctoral students at US, regardless of citizenship, to complete their dissertation in Russian/Soviet historical studies. The program is open to students in any discipline whose dissertation topics are within 19th-early 21st century Russian/Soviet historical studies.

Eligibility

The applicant must

• be a doctoral student at a US university
• be a student member of ASEEES at the time of the application submission
• have a dissertation research topic that falls within the fellowship project scope (see above), but may be in any discipline
• have language proficiency to conduct research about Russia/the Soviet Union
• not have previously applied for this fellowship more than once (past recipients of the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship may apply for the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellowship, but they will not receive any preferential advantage in the competition.)
• be prepared to successfully defend their dissertation within the period of their fellowship tenure.
• not currently hold or have previously held a dissertation completion fellowship.