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 foreign 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 mid-February application deadline. See the FLAS website, flas.wisc.edu, for more information.
CEAS FLAS awards by the numbers, 2018-2022
63 Awards Given
51 Individual recipients
35 Graduate Students
28 Undergraduates
By language:
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- 26 Chinese
- 22 Japanese
- 11 Korean
- 4 Tibetan
Current Awardees
AY 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
AY 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
Quotes from our Awardees