The Advanced Language Institute (ALI), funded by the Loann Crane Endowment will award research grants for graduate students in Summer & Fall 2025:
- Summer 2025: 2 grants for up to $2000 each in languages, literatures and cultures in a language other than the applicant’s native language (not English) outside of the US.
- Fall 2025: 2 grants for up to $2000 each in languages, literatures and cultures in a language other than the applicant’s native language (not English) outside of the US.
Application deadline for both Summer & Fall 2025 applications is Monday February 17, 2025. Decisions will be made and funds will be awarded by March 31, 2025.
Note: Applicants need to have completed 3000-level or above of the language at the time of applying for this grant.
Please instruct your referral to email the recommendation letter to CLLCscholarships@osu.edu by the deadline. Use this fillable guide to help you ask for a letter of recommendation.
These funds are available to Graduate students in departments below:
American Sign Language Program
Department of Classics
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Department of French and Italian
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Comparative Studies
Applicants may apply for multiple grants (through the CLLC website) for the same research project/program/conference. However, please note that if an applicant receives a grant (with the earlier deadline), the second award will be given to the same applicant only if funds are available after the award decisions have been made, and provided the applicant has not exceeded their requested budget with all funding sources.