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...research constitutes spending the summer after one's junior year to live with African peasants, study contemporary British print unions, or reside in Indian refugee villages in Mexico. Behind all of these travels, lies what some have called the best-kept secret at Harvard, the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) grants for summer research...
...programs at Harvard that offers money for students to do thesis research, the CFIA grant program funds grants from $500 to $1000. Often, juniors supplement these grants with money from the Center for European Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, or the Center for East Asian Research...
Director of Student Programs at the CFIA Donald Babai says, "These grants are designed to give students a kind of exposure to study abroad, and to do things that have not been done before that they would not have been able to do otherwise...
Benigno Aquino was a fellow at the CFIA from 1980-83, and lived with Corazon in Newton. Prior to arriving in the United States in 1980, Benigno Aquino was imprisoned in Manila...
...center would clearly welcome a fellowship that would be in honor of Aquino that would allow people from other parts of the world to participate in the fellows program," says Executive Officer of the CFIA Chester D. Haskell...