The U.S. Department of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships program offers tuition funding and stipends for qualified students focused on world language and area studies competencies. CEAS is certified to offer FLAS awards for the study of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Tibetan, with separate competitions for summer language intensives and academic year studies. Competitions typically open in late November, with a February 14 application deadline. See the FLAS website, flas.wisc.edu, for more information.
“The FLAS award helped me progress in Japanese by allowing me to take a whole summer to just focus on the language and not be distracted by other courses.” — Elaina
“Because the FLAS is so flexible, I was able to select a program that fit my language learning needs at the time of the award.” — Austin
“The FLAS award I received game me experience relevant to both of my majors, Chinese and Political Science, leading to me working at Senator Tammy Baldwin’s office in DC as a foreign policy-focused intern after my Beijing program.” — Jacob
CEAS FLAS awards by the numbers (current four-year 2022-2025 grant cycle)
Totals (first 2 years):
22 awards to
17 individuals
By student category:
15 graduate students and
7 undergraduates
By language:
8 Chinese, 10 Japanese,
3 Korean, 1 Tibetan
Current Awardees
Academic Year 23-24
- Zachary Cervenka, Art History graduate student, Japanese
- James Flynn, History grad student, Japanese – History
- Genevieve Jacobs, Asian Languages and Cultures graduate student, Chinese
- James Segee-Wright, Law graduate student, Chinese
- Simone Tripoli, Anthropology graduate student, Chinese
- Adrie Falkenberg, undergraduate student, Japanese
- Sawyer Getschman, undergraduate student, Korean
- Kayne Young-Chewning, undergraduate student, Japanese
Summer 2023
- John-Coahle Merryfield, History graduate student, Japanese
- John Tobin, History graduate student, Japanese
- Nestor Feliciano-Perez, undergraduate student, Japanese
- Jack Rodgers, undergraduate student, Chinese
Academic Year 22-23
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Kyle Dougherty, Asian Languages and Cultures graduate student, Tibetan
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James Flynn, History graduate student, Japanese
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Mary Green, Asian Languages and Cultures graduate student, Japanese
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Simone Tripoli, Anthropology graduate student, Chinese
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Curtis Wright, Asian Languages and Cultures graduate student, Chinese
- Adrie Falkenberg, undergraduate, Japanese
For more recipients please visit this page
The next application deadline is: February 14, 2025
For questions, please contact CEAS FLAS coordinator Laurie Dennis at ldennis@wisc.edu