The American Council of Learned Societies has awarded post-doctoral grants for research to six Harvard scholars. The research grants are part of a program on East European Studies sponsored jointly by the ACLS and the Social Research Council.

The awards, made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation, are intended for study and research languages or travel relating to Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, East Germany since 1945 and modern Greece.

The Harvard affiliates who received the language study grants and the languages they will study are:

Paul R. Magocsi, research fellow at the Ukranian Research Institute, Hungarian;

Zenon E. Kohut, research fellow at the Ukranian Research Institute, Polish;

Natalia Pylypiuk, a graduate student in Comparative literature, Polish; and,

Nancy M. Shields, a graduate student in History, Polish.

Travel grants were awarded to:

David E. Bynum '58, lecturer on Oral Literature; and,

Albert B. Lord '34, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature.