Applications for the 2025-2026 fellows program Will be accepted until Sept. 15
Purpose
FSU’s Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Center supports research and artistic activity that focuses on and engages with Native American and Indigenous communities across the globe. Towards that end, this program fosters a community of graduate students who are engaged in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work in NAIS broadly conceived. It provides FSU graduate-students with recurring funding to conduct, create, or disseminate research and creative works in the field, and it provides them opportunities to share their work and otherwise engage with other FSU students. We are especially interested in supporting graduate students who are engaged in the creation and/or dissemination of knowledge and creative works that are generated through NAI collaborations.
Benefits
Every NAIS Fellow is eligible for $3,000 a year (July 1-June 30) of travel reimbursement to aid in their scholarly endeavors. These funds can be used to support research, conference attendance, presentation of works, museum visitations, and other travel related to your NAIS research and/or artistic practice. The Center is more than happy to discuss the range of uses that they can be used and any restrictions that necessarily accompany funding from the Center.
The NAIS Center will also do its best to arrange academic opportunities for its Fellows and to promote their work on campus and beyond. You will have special input in the types of speakers we invite and programs we plan, and there will opportunities to meet other Fellows throughout your time at FSU.
NAIS Fellows will be expected to attend NAIS programs and otherwise contribute to our community of researchers. We also ask that Fellows acknowledge the support you received from NAIS in any future publications that benefited from this award.
Appointments are renewable, provided the student maintains good standing and continues a research project with a significant contribution to NAIS.