The following application materials are required of all applicants. Please read the instructions carefully. Please note that with the exception of shaded response areas, forms are locked to prevent inadvertent changes.
If you have problems downloading the forms, please send a message to the CJS Academic Services Coordinator at cjsfellowships@umich.edu.
- Asia Centers Basic Information Form
- Statement of Purpose of no more than 1000 words describing what you plan to do with the fellowship. Students who are applying for both the Summer and the Academic Year fellowships MUST propose two distinct and separate projects for the Summer and the Academic Year and must submit a separate statement of purpose for each application. As a general rule, if a continuation of the Summer Fellowship project is proposed in the Academic Year Fellowship, even if it is the next phase of the project, only one fellowship may be funded.
- Budget Statement: Please attach a budget statement with reasonable estimates of costs. You may request tuition and mandatory fees, health insurance, living costs, direct research expenses (such as books, photocopy, small equipment, library and museum fees, and subject fees) as well as travel expenses related to research/internship travel (such as airfare, ground transportation, and lodging). Computers, including laptops, are not allowed. If you are requesting living costs, please provide an estimate of rent, utilities, and food. If you are requesting direct research expenses or travel expenses, please give a detailed breakdown. Please note that if your fellowship project involves travel outside of North America, you are required to purchase international travel health insurance. Please include the cost of this insurance in your budget.
- One academic letter of recommendation. An academic letter of recommendation must be completed by an instructor of a content course and NOT by a language instructor. You must provide information about your recommender and request a recommendation through the online portal. Once the appropriate tasks are completed on the online portal, an automated email message requesting a recommendation will be sent to the recommender. Non-UM recommenders will be asked to first create a U-M Friend Account to complete the recommendation on the online portal (instructions will be sent in the request email). Letters must be current (within last 3 months).
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Current UM Official Transcript: You may check the appropriate check box on the application form to grant permission to the CJS staff to access electronically your current UM transcript and to place a copy in your fellowship application file. If you choose NOT to do so, you must submit a current official UM transcript. To be considered official, transcripts must be prepared by the office of the registrar. Transcripts that are "issued to the student" must be brought to CJS in the original envelope with the seal unbroken.
- Official transcripts from your undergraduate degree and non-UM graduate degree institution(s), and other institutions where you completed relevant language and Japanese Studies coursework (such as summer language programs and study abroad): You may check the appropriate check box on the application form to grant permission to the CJS staff to access electronically any undergraduate and other graduate degree transcript(s) submitted with your admission application to CJS or another Rackham graduate program. If you choose NOT to do so, or if you did NOT submit these transcripts at the time of admission, you must submit official transcript(s) from your undergraduate degree institution, non-UM graduate degree institution(s), and other post-secondary institutions where you completed relevant language and Japanese Studies coursework, such as summer language programs and study abroad programs. To be considered official, transcripts must be prepared by the office of the registrar. Transcripts that are "issued to the student" must be brought to CJS in the original envelope with the seal unbroken.
