Students in the International Studies Program can receive funding to study abroad or enhance their language learning opportunities. Below is a list of grants available to students.
International Travel Grants
Aronson International Experience Grant
The Aronson International Experience Grant awards have been made possible through a generous gift from Jeffrey and Shari Aronson as part of the Aronson Center for International Studies. They are designed to make educational opportunities abroad more accessible to International Studies Program students.
Brown Family Travel Fund
The Brown Family Travel Fund is an endowment supported by the H.L. and Elizabeth M. Brown Foundation. The fund is geared toward rising or current seniors in the International Studies Program.
Hull Family Study Abroad Fund
The Hull Family Study Abroad Fund was created with the purpose of providing Johns Hopkins undergraduates with the opportunity to study abroad at the University’s SAIS-Europe center in Bologna, Italy.
Summer Travel Grants for Research in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
LACLxS offers small grants to support summer research and travel in Latin America and the Caribbean. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis, and the competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students of Johns Hopkins University.
Language Learning Grants
Blakemore Freeman Fellowships & Refresher Grants
Blakemore language grants are awarded to individuals pursuing professional careers in fields such as business, academia, journalism, public service, law, science, medicine, architecture, engineering, the fine arts, education, etc. who would benefit from improved fluency in an East or Southeast Asian language.
Center for Language Education (CLE) Study Abroad Scholarship
The CLE Study Abroad Scholarship program is available to students studying a language offered in CLE overseas during the academic year (fall, spring, and summer).
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships assist students in acquiring competence in foreign languages as well as a fuller understanding of the regions and countries in which those languages are commonly used. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences undergraduate International Studies Program on the Homewood campus and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC are approved by the U.S. Department of Education to award FLAS fellowships to eligible Krieger and SAIS students studying the following languages: Arabic, Haitian Creole*, Hebrew*, Hindi*, Indonesian**, Italian*, Japanese, Korean, Persian**, Portuguese*, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Yiddish*. Fellowships may also be awarded to students studying other languages on a case-by-case basis. (*Languages only offered at Homewood; **Languages only offered at SAIS.)
U.S. Department of State Language Programs Web Site
The U.S. Department of State has a new website intended to be a “one-stop” platform listing U.S. government language programs for Americans seeking to learn a foreign language. In addition to State and Defense programs, several of the Department of Education’s Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs are also listed. Each of the site’s program entries includes a list of languages taught under the program.