The Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship program provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States.

Priority will be given to research projects that focus on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories).

• An individual is eligible to receive a fellowship if the individual
• Is a citizen or national of the United States; or
• Is a permanent resident of the United States;
• Is a graduate student in good standing at an institution of higher education; and
• When the fellowship period begins, is admitted to candidacy in a doctoral degree program in modern foreign languages and area studies at that institution;
• Is planning a teaching career in the United States upon completion of his or her doctoral program; and
• Possesses sufficient foreign language skills to carry out the dissertation research project.