Embassy of the United States Helsinki, Finland

Left to right: Petra Helenius, ARC Grant 2006 recipient, Saara Kekki, ARC Grant 2008 recipient, and Tuomas Koskenniemi, ARC Grant 2009 recipient (Photo by State Dept.)

Ms. Paula Siltanen of the Department of Political Science at the University of Tampere has been selected as the winner of the 2011 ARC Scholarship. The title of her Master’s Thesis is “The concept of otherness / alterity in the foreign policy rhetorics of President Barack Obama.”

A total of 24 applications were submitted for the 2011 ARC grant. The selection committee praised the excellent submissions and noted that their high academic quality and originality made it very difficult to select one winner from the entire group. The American Resource Center is also very pleased to note that the ARC Grant attracted interest from a wide variety of academic programs.

The American Resource Center’s annual scholarship provides a grant of 1,000 Euros to support Master’s degree work on studies of the U.S. Applications are invited from students of Finnish nationality, enrolled at a Finnish university, and who are currently working on a Master’s Thesis on a topic related to the United States.

Your thesis does not need to be written in English.

Who can apply: Any student of Finnish nationality enrolled at a Finnish university.

How to apply: Please download the application form fill it in, print, and send to us with attachments.

Timetable: The deadline for the applications is closed.