2012 Language Grant Applications
We are now accepting applications for the 2012 Blakemore Freeman Fellowships and Blakemore Refresher Grants.
Applications for our 2012 grants must be postmarked by December 30, 2011. Click here to download the application form and grant guidelines.
New this year: Recommendation letters may be sent by email to blakemorefoundation@gmail.com
Questions? Contact Cathy Scheibner by phone at (206) 359-8778 or email.
It’s
not just a matter of improvement, but rather more like having
blinders lifted. I was a Chinese History Ph.D. student before I
received the Blakemore grant and thought I had pretty much reached
the level of Chinese I needed for research.
I passively accepted the fact that Chinese
was a confoundedly difficult language and there wasn’t much I could
do about it. Now I walk down the aisles of books in the East Asian
Reading Room and everything seems clear – I look at sources I
struggled with a year ago, and the characters melt and give up their
meanings. Inscrutable tomes are now full of stories. I no longer sit
at a desk under the suspicious gaze of the librarian, pretending I
understand what I’m looking at. Now I do understand. I read the
papers. I seize random books from the shelves and pore through them.
It is wonderful.
