The East Asian Studies Center, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Slavic and East European Studies have awarded more than $1.5 million in student support this year in the form of 64 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship grants to Ohio State students spanning 16 graduate programs and 13 undergraduate majors. For Summer 2020, more than $122,000 in awards supported 15 graduate and professional students and three undergraduate students in their pursuit of intensive language study. For Academic Year 2020-2021, more than $1,456,000 in awards will support 32 graduate and professional students and 14 undergraduate students pursuing language and area studies across many disciplines. Funding for FLAS Fellowships comes from the U.S. Department of Education under Title VI of the Higher Education Act and is subsidized by generous matching funding from The Ohio State University Graduate School.

This year’s FLAS fellowships support the development of area studies knowledge and language fluency in 12 languages, with more than 67 percent of fellows pursuing language study at the advanced level. The East Asian Studies Center awarded funding to six graduate students in Summer 2020 and 15 graduate and professional students in Academic Year 2020-2021 to support advanced studies of Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The Center for Latin American Studies awarded funding to eight graduate students and two undergraduate students in Summer 2020 and six graduate and professional students and eight undergraduate students in Academic Year 2020-2021 to support the study of Portuguese, Quechua and Wao Tededo. The Center for Slavic and East European Studies awarded funding to one graduate student and one undergraduate student in Summer 2020 and 11 graduate students and six undergraduate students in Academic Year 2020-2021 to support the study of Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian and Uzbek.

Summer FLAS Fellows complete the equivalent of a full year of language study in an intensive program (usually 6-10 weeks long). The fellowship covers up to $5,000 of the language program’s tuition, provides a $2,500 stipend, and in some instances, up to $1,000 towards international travel. This summer, while many programs were cancelled in the wake of COVID-19, the three OSU FLAS-granting centers, with support from the U.S. Department of Education, were able to support fellows in identifying alternate programs to continue their language study.

Academic year FLAS Fellowships are awarded to undergraduate, graduate, or professional students who are enrolled in a course of study at Ohio State that requires both language and area studies expertise. Students are required to take one language and one area studies course in both autumn and spring semesters, completing one academic year language sequence. The fellowship provides a stipend of $15,000 and tuition support up to $18,000 for graduate and professional students. For undergraduate students, it provides a stipend of $5,000 and tuition and fees up to $10,000.

FLAS Fellowships often provide graduate students with funding so that they can focus on language acquisition during the course of the fellowship while not needing to hold a graduate associate position to fund their studies that year.

View the complete list of Summer 2020 and Academic Year 2020-2021 FLAS Fellowship Grant recipients below:
 

East Asian Studies Center

Summer 2020:

Graduate Students

• Jason Conley, East Asian Languages and Literatures: Advanced Chinese Language & Culture (Advanced Chinese)
• Michael Frazer, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Japanese)
• Seth Josolowitz, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Japanese)
• Jason Smith, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Japanese)
• Joseph Smith, Environmental Science and East Asian Languages and Literatures: Advanced Chinese Language & Culture (Advanced Chinese)
• Logan Ward, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Korean)
   

Academic Year 2020-2021:

Graduate Students

• Caroline Carroll, Law (Advanced Japanese)
• Makayla Cherry, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Korean)
• Alissa Elegant-McCoy, Dance (Advanced Chinese)
• Justine Franklin, Agricultural, Environmental, and Developmental Economics and Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Chinese)
• Michael Frazer, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Japanese)
• Seth Josolowitz, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Japanese)
• Jessica Jourdan, East Asian Languages and Literatures: Advanced Chinese Language & Culture (Advanced Chinese)
• Patrick Nash, History (Advanced Chinese)
• Kateria Rodriguez, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Chinese)
• Jason Smith, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Japanese)
• Joseph Smith, Environmental Science and East Asian Languages and Literatures: Advanced Chinese Language & Culture (Advanced Chinese)
• Matthew Steinhauer, East Asian Languages and Literatures (Advanced Japanese)
• Kerry Stevens, East Asian Languages and Literatures: Advanced Chinese Language & Culture (Advanced Chinese)
• Travis Telzrow, East Asian Languages and Literatures: Advanced Chinese Language & Culture (Advanced Chinese)
• Logan Ward, Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies (Advanced Korean)
   

Center for Latin American Studies

Summer 2020:

Graduate Students

• Stephanie Antetomaso, Linguistics (Advanced Quechua)
• Julian Baldemira, Spanish and Portuguese (Intermediate Portuguese)
• Paige Barton, Spanish and Portuguese (Intermediate Portuguese)
• Justin Bland, Spanish and Portuguese (Advanced Quechua)
• Noah Diewald, Linguistics (Intermediate Wao Tededo)
• Sadler Kirk, Spanish and Portuguese (Advanced Quechua)
• Caroline Shipley, Spanish and Portuguese (Advanced Quechua)
• Gabriel Zeballos-Castellon, Geography (Elementary Quechua)

Undergraduate Students

• Gabriella Reyes, Romance Studies (Intermediate Portuguese)
• Daniel Zevallos, Political Science (Intermediate Portuguese)
   

Academic Year 2020-2021:

Graduate Students

• Anna Bulkowski, Law (Elementary Portuguese)
• Noah Diewald, Linguistics (Advanced Wao Tededo)
• Nadia El-Yousseph, Speech and Hearing Science (Elementary Portuguese)
• Carson Teuscher, History (Intermediate Portuguese)
• Sarah Yannone, Nursing (Intermediate Portuguese)
• Gabriel Zeballos-Castellon, Geography (Intermediate Quechua)

Undergraduate Students

• Brian Collins, Spanish and Portuguese (Advanced Portuguese)
• Clara Hach, Public Policy (Intermediate Portuguese)
• Sophia Lenhart, Portuguese (Intermediate Portuguese)
• Julie McNally, Undecided (Intermediate Portuguese)
• Gabriella Reyes, Romance Studies (Advanced Portuguese)
• Taisse Torres-Lorenzo, Portuguese (Advanced Portuguese)
• Sarah Wade, Spanish (Advanced Quechua)
• Jaret Waters, Economics (Advanced Portuguese)

Center for Slavic and East European Studies

Summer 2020:

Graduate Students

• Morgan Fox, English (Advanced Russian)

Undergraduate Students

• Peri Forbes, International Studies (Intermediate Russian)

Academic Year 2020-2021:

Graduate Students

• Sofia Bachman, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (Intermediate Polish)
• Shawn Conroy, History (Intermediate Ukrainian)
• Joe Ernst, Slavic and East European Studies (Elementary Polish)
• Brandon Harvey, Public Affairs/Slavic and East European Studies (Advanced Polish)
• Rachel Hutchison, Slavic and East European Studies (Elementary Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian)
• Philip Kopatz, Slavic and East European Studies (Advanced Russian)
• Maxwell Parker, Slavic and East European Studies (Advanced Uzbek)
• Matt Pinerola, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (Advanced Russian)
• Nicholas Seay, History (Advanced Uzbek)
• Kelila Thomsen, Slavic and East European Studies (Advanced Russian)
• William Zadeskey, Slavic and East European Studies (Elementary Romanian)

Undergraduate Students

• Yana Artemov, Art (Advanced Russian)
• Zach Dudzik, Computer Science and Engineering (Advanced Polish)
• Edward Guminiak, International Studies (Intermediate Polish)
• Stephanie Manville, Exploration (Advanced Russian)
• Helen McHenry, International Studies/Russian (Advanced Russian)
• Daria Novikov, Political Science/Russian (Advanced Russian)