Two grants of up to $500 each will be awarded in any one calendar year to scholars, including doctoral candidates, who at the time of application reside more than 500 miles from Bellingham. Applicants from institutions with no or few Inner Asian resources are given preference.
The grants, financed by the Henry G. Schwarz Endowment Fund for Mongolian Studies, are designed to help scholars use the more than 9,000 books and dozens of periodicals dealing with Mongolia. This large collection of materials, broadly representative of all parts of Mongolia and of every major group of Mongols elsewhere in the world, is known not only for its books on language, literature, the humanities and social sciences but also for its unparalleled resources in medicine and the natural sciences. It is supported by more than 2,500 titles on Tibet and substantial collections on neighboring areas, such as Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang), and the indigenous populations of Eastern Siberia, the Russian Far East and Manchuria.
Applications must be submitted by August 1 for research during September through January and by January 1 for research during February through June. They should include a brief description of the research project, an up-to-date curriculum vitae, and an estimated budget.
When completed, they should be sent to:
Director
Center for East Asian Studies
Western Washington University
Bellingham WA 98225-9057
For more information please visit http://www.wwu.edu/eas/