Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must possess all of the following qualifications in order to be eligible:

• Citizenship and permanent resident status qualifying the applicant to hold a valid passport issued in Russia. Persons applying for or holding permanent residence in the United States are not eligible. Persons who are citizens of both a partner country and the United States are also ineligible.
• Date of birth not earlier than June 15, 1970.
• Not less than 2 years experience working in your selected field.
• Fulbright Grantees enter the United States on an Exchange Visitor (J-1) visa under a Department of State program and are subject to the two-year home-country residence requirement associated with the J-1 visa. For those candidates who have already traveled to the US on a J-1 visa, there should be a minimum of two years at the time of application since your return to Russia.
• Candidates must either not have a graduate degree or have received their graduate degree after August 1, 2005

Criteria of Review

In reviewing Fulbright proposals that are submitted by junior faculty or other eligible candidates under the age of 39, the following elements will be stressed:
* Evidence of appropriate scholarly achievement
* Demonstrated commitment to teaching, curriculum development and expansion of course contents
* Likelihood of immediate continuation of academic work at an academic or cultural institution
* Potential for active cooperation with US and home country colleagues in projects that could have a major impact on home country educational policy and practice
* Evidence of community commitment in and outside academia