What is a fellowship?Fellowships
are usually short-term opportunities (a few months to a couple years)
offered to students, recent graduates, and young professionals and
accompanied by a living stipend. Fellowships offer a significant amount
of experience and professional development in a short amount of time, so
they are excellent pathways to future career opportunities. Fellowship
activities vary, but can include teaching, research, and project
development/implementation. The fellowships below may be of particular
interest to students in international studies.
APSA Minority Fellows Program
The
APSA Minority Fellows program provides financial support to minority
(or underrepresented) students applying to enter a doctoral program in
political science.
Ashoka Fellows
Ashoka
sponsors fellows who want to pursue an innovative solution or approach
to a social problem in the areas of civic engagement, economic
development, environment, health, human rights, and education.
Asmus Policy Entrepreneurs Fellowship
The
Amus fellowships supports emerging leaders who have a clearly
articulated policy project that will address an important foreign or
economic policy issue and will advance transatlantic cooperation.
Applicants must be American or European citizens under the age of 40.
Boren Fellowships and Scholarships
Boren
Scholarships and Fellowships provide money to undergraduate and
graduate students interested in studying langauges and areas that are
critical to US interests. Languages include Arabic, Chinese, Korean,
Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili, among others.
Echoing Green Fellowship
Echoing
Greens two-year Fellowship program provides more than $2 million in
seed funding to a diverse group of promising social entrepreneurs. From
thousands of applicants, typically fewer than one percent are ultimately
selected. Those selected receive funding to help launch new
organizations; leadership development opportunities; and one-to-one
support.
Emerson National Hunger Fellows Program
Emerson
Fellows gain experience fighting hunger in this 12 month
program through their field placesments with community-based
organizations across the country and in Washington DC with national
policy organizations. Living stipend and health insurance provided.
Applicants must have completed a Bachelor's degree.
The Fulbright Program
The
Fulbright Program provides grants to implement projects, study, and
teach in over 155 countries. The Fellowships open to recent graduates
include the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and the Fulbright English
Teaching Assistantships (ETA) Program.
Global Health Corps
Global
Health Corps provides a yearlong paid fellowship for young
professionals from diverse backgrounds to work on the frontlines of the
fight for global health equity at existing health organizations and
government agencies. Fellows are currently working in Rwanda, Burundi,
Uganda, Malawi, Zambia and the United States.
The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
The
Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship is a national fellowship program
that provides recent college and grad school graduates with the
opportunity to gain a Washington perspective on key issues of peace and
security. Supported by a salary, the fellows serve as full-time junior
staff members at the participating organization of their choice.
Human Rights Watch Finberg Fellowship
HRW
Fellows monitor human rights developments in various countries, conduct
on-site investigations, draft reports on human rights conditions, and
engage in advocacy and media outreach aimed at publicizing and
curtailing human rights violations. Applicants must be recent graduates
from a Masters program.
The Institute of Current World Affairs Fellowship
The
ICWA fellowship program aims to nurture deep expertise in foreign
countries and cultures by supporting a Fellow who carries out a program
of self-designed, independent study abroad for a minimum of two years.
Leland International Hunger Fellows Program
The
Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program is a two-year
program that places 12-15 fellows with international development
organizations that include international and local NGOs, U.S. government
agencies and multilateral organizations. Fellows work on a variety of
food security issues, such as agricultural development, nutrition,
natural resource management, agribusiness development and womens
empowerment. Applicants must have completed a graduate-level degree.
Rotary Peace Fellowships
Rotary
offers fellowships to recent graduates from a BA program to earn a
Masters degree at premier universities in fields related to peace and
conflict resolution and prevention. Programs last 15 - 24 months and
require a practical internship of 23 months during the academic break.
The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
The
Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Programs provide funding
to participants as they are prepared academically and professionally to
enter the United States Department of State Foreign Service.
Undergraduate applicants must be current juniors. For the graduate
fellowship, students should apply when they are planning to enter a
master's program in the following fall.