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4. ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR APPLICATIONS: SAMPLE GRANT PROPOSAL FOR DISSERTATION FIELDWORK (PART 2)

Grant proposals are the subject of yet another installment in my series sharing old application materials. I shared my old grant for the Fulbright-Hays in my last post, and this post makes available my old application for the Mellon-CLIR. Although the Mellon-CLIR has been discontinued, I include this application to show how I tailored my […]

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3. ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR APPLICATIONS: SAMPLE GRANT PROPOSAL FOR DISSERTATION FIELDWORK (PART 1)

The third installment of this series is about grant proposals for dissertation fieldwork. All grad students who work on Vietnam will eventually have to travel there for research and it’s often the highlight of the grad school experience. But overseas research is expensive, and most students must apply for grants to fund their fieldwork or

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2. ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR APPLICATIONS: SAMPLE PERSONAL STATEMENT FOR APPLYING TO GRAD SCHOOL

In this second installment of my series sharing old application materials, I make available two personal statements that I wrote when I applied to grad school. It was my very first time producing a personal statement (also known as a statement of purpose), and I could not find any good models to emulate. Instead, I

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