The scholarship, funded by the US Department of State, funds intensive language study.

Graduate student Angie Seidler's fieldwork will take her to the Middle East to study issues of water, agriculture, and climate change. She will be aided in her work by language skills acquired with help from the prestigious Critical Language Scholarship funded by the US Department of State. The scholarship funds eight weeks of intensive language study and will occur in either Bursa or Ankara, Turkey. Seidler's graduate studies are being advised by Dr. Jessica Barnes. More on the scholarship can be found here.