The Kennan Institute offers Short-Term Grants (up to one month’s duration) to scholars whose research in the social sciences or humanities focuses on the former Soviet Union

The Kennan Institute offers Short-Term Grants (up to one month’s duration) to scholars whose research in the social sciences or humanities focuses on the former Soviet Union (excluding the Baltic States), and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C. area. Policy-relevant research is preferred.

Academic participants must either possess a doctoral degree or be doctoral candidates who have nearly completed their dissertations. For non-academics, an equivalent degree of professional achievement is expected.