Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
Website: http://www.wilsoncenter.org
Deadline: 1 October
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Wilson Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.
The Center devotes significant attention to the exploration of broad thematic areas.
Primary themes are:
1. governance, including such issues as the key features of the development of democratic institutions, democratic society, civil society, and citizen participation;
2. the U.S. role in the world and issues of partnership and leadership—military, political, and economic dimensions; and
3. key long-term future challenges confronting the United States and the world.
While the Center does not engage in formulating actual policy, priority will be given to proposals related to these themes and intersecting with crucial public policy issues. Within this framework, the Center also welcomes projects that provide the historical and/or cultural context for some of today’s significant public policy debates.
WHO MAY APPLY
Citizens or permanent residents from any country (foreign nationals must be able to hold a valid passport and obtain a J1 Visa)
Men and women with outstanding capabilities and experience from a wide variety of -backgrounds (including government, the corporate world, professions, and academia)
Academic candidates holding a Ph.D. (Ph.D. must be received by the application deadline of 1 October Academic candidates demonstrating scholarly achievement by publications beyond their doctoral dissertations
Practitioners or policymakers with an equivalent level of professional achievement English proficiency as the Center is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas among its fellows
REQUIREMENTS
1. the two-page, single-sided Fellowship Application Form (We strongly recommend typing the application form. You may also complete this form online at www.wilsoncenter.org, but will need to print it out and send it using regular postal mail. Special Note: For the 2010 – 2011 Fellowship (application) year, we will also accept the application via email at fellowships@wilsoncenter.org. Please submit your complete application in one email. If applying using email, your references must be sent seperately and can be done so via regular mail or email.;
2. a list of your publications that includes exact titles, names of publishers, dates of publication and status of forthcoming publications (not to exceed three pages);
3. a Project Proposal (not to exceed five single-spaced typed pages, using 12-point type); The Center reserves the right to omit from review applications that are longer than the requested page length;
4. a bibliography for the project that includes primary sources and relevant secondary sources (not to exceed three pages);
5. the one-page Financial Information Form.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The Center tries to ensure that the stipend provided under the fellowship, together with the fellow’s other sources of funding (e.g., grants secured by the applicant and sabbatical allowances), approximate a fellow’s regular salary. Stipends provided in recent years have ranged from $26,000 to $85,000 (the maximum possible). Stipends include round trip travel for fellows. If spouses and/or dependent children will reside with the fellow for the entire fellowship period, money for their travel will also be included in the stipend. In addition to stipends, the Center provides 75 percent of health insurance premiums for fellows who elect Center coverage and for their accompanying family members.
DEADLINE
The Center holds one round of competitive selection per year. Fellowship applications must be postmarked or submitted online by October 1. *The online application will be available here soon.* Applicants are notified of the results of the selection process by March of the following year.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Scholar Administration Office
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: fellowships@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202-691-4170
