As a large public university, UW-Madison
is limited in the amount of support it can provide to
graduate students. Regrettably, the department itself
cannot offer fellowships to its students. However, a number
of EALL students have successfully applied for the
University
Fellowship,
which provides support for the first year of study.
These and other students have also received Foreign
Language and Area Studies or FLAS grants from UW-Madison’s Center
for East Asian Studies (CEAS), a federally-funded hub for research
on the region. See CEAS's Fellowships and Grants
page for information on
funding opportunities from both internal and external
sources. These grants are available for academic year
and summer support, both on campus and at accredited
programs all over the world. Our students have also had
good luck with dissertation research grants such as the
Fulbright-Hayes fellowship.
Students wishing to supplement such grants or personal
resources with work-study positions will find a wide, if
unpredictable, variety of offerings on campus. Within the
department, those with strong Japanese skills may apply
for teaching assistantships
in the undergraduate
language program. The Center for East Asian Studies also
regularly hires students for project assistant positions
and, more occasionally, lecturerships. Students can also
seek out such employment with the Center for Humanities
and other units on campus,
including the various learning
communities.
Finally, faculty in all departments, including EALL,
need readers each semester to help score papers and
exams. You may wish to contact some of the Japan studies
faculty mentioned above before each semester begins to
ask about such opportunities—or, for that matter,
to discover newly offered project and teaching
assistantships.
Funding