Grants & Fellowships
CREEES offers a number of academic year and summer funding opportunities for Stanford undergraduate and graduate students to support language study and research.
Please see below for details.
Undergraduates
Summer
Globalizing Eurasia Grant
CREEES offers up to $7000 in support for multi-country summer research.
Learn more & Apply for the Globalizing Eurasia Grant – Undergraduate students
Language Study Grants
CREEES offers $2,000 in support of intensive summer language study in the U.S. or abroad.
Prospective M.A. Students
Academic Year
Tuition Fellowships
CREEES offers a limited number of partial and full academic year tuition fellowships for students enrolled in the CREEES M.A. program. Applicants to the M.A. program will automatically be considered for a tuition fellowship during the admissions process. No additional application materials need be submitted.
Graduate Students
Academic Year
Baltic Short-term Travel/Research Grant (Academic Year & Summer)
This opportunity is made possible by Title VI funding. All grants are contingent upon final approval of the relevant program officer.
CREEES is offering travel grants for short-term study and research trips to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Baltic Sea Region. Grants of up to $5000 will be awarded to Stanford University’s graduate students who are engaged in Russian and East European/Baltic studies and wish to travel to the Baltic region to attend conferences, conduct research, and participate in academic exchange with local faculty and students. Possible areas of research include the history, politics and culture of the Baltic states and region; international relations between Russia, the EU, and the USA; foreign and domestic policy and development of Estonia and the Baltic states; and e-governance, digital transformation, and (cyber) security.
Learn more and Apply for travel to occur between between mid-March 2026 and June 2026
Learn more and Apply for travel to occur between between mid-June 2026 and August 14 2026
Alternative Research Methods Grant Opportunity
CREEES is offering grants for Stanford Ph.D. students whose research plans have been disrupted by the war in Ukraine. The grant will support alternative research methods, such as the hiring of local researchers in Ukraine and Russia to conduct directed archival work, the digitization of archival materials, or other alternative methods that will grant students access to sources necessary to their dissertation research. Requests for funding are considered on a rolling basis.
Learn more and Apply for the Alternative Research Methods Grant Opportunity
CREEES Graduate Conference Travel Grant
CREEES has limited funds available to support Stanford graduate students during the academic year for travel to conferences focused on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies where they will be presenting papers related to their thesis research on the region. Requests for funding are considered on a rolling basis in the Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarters. Level of funding depends of specific needs, but typically awards are up to $500.
Learn more and Apply for the CREEES Graduate Conference Travel Grant
Summer
Globalizing Eurasia Grant
CREEES offers up to $7000 in support for multi-country summer research.
Learn more & Apply for the Globalizing Eurasia Grant
CREEES Travel/Research Grants
CREEES offers $2,000 in support of research travel in Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Learn more & Apply for the CREEES Travel/Research Grants
Language Study Grants
CREEES offers $2,000 in support of intensive summer language study in the U.S. or abroad.