USA - Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships Social Sciences and Humanities 2007-2008
Bursa Beasiswa Newsletter
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is announcing the
opening of its 2007-2008 Fellowship competition. The Center awards
approximately 20-25 academic year residential fellowships to
individuals from any country with outstanding project proposals 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.
Applicants must hold a doctorate or have equivalent professional
experience.
Fellows are provided stipends (which include round trip travel),
private offices, and access to the Library of Congress, Windows-based
personal computers, and research assistants.
Eligibility
* 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, as well as academia)
* Academic candidates holding a Ph.D. (Ph.D. must be received by
the application deadline of October 2)
* 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
Ineligibility
* Applicants working on a degree (even if the degree is to be
awarded prior to the proposed fellowship year)
* Proposals of a partisan or advocacy nature
* Primary research in the natural sciences
* Projects that create musical composition or dance
* Projects in the visual arts
* Projects that are the rewriting of doctoral dissertations
* The editing of texts, papers, or documents
* The preparation of textbooks, anthologies, translations, and
memoirs