Columbia Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program 2025-2026 (Stipend available) – YOA

Deadline: March 19, 2025

Applications are open for the Columbia Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program 2025-2026. The Columbia Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program gives alternatives for early-profession students within the humanities and humanistic social sciences who maintain refugee standing or have been forcibly displaced. Through this system, yr-lengthy fellowships are awarded to help rising displaced students by a Columbia Global Center, the place they obtain ongoing help to reinforce their analysis capabilities, broaden their skilled networks, and advance towards a profitable profession in academia.

This yr’s program, which is able to start in September 2025, will help roughly 10 students, every of whom will probably be hosted in one among three Columbia Global Centers: in Amman, Nairobi, or Santiago. Scholars will apply to solely one of many three Global Centers, primarily based on the area during which they presently reside.

Support mechanisms for fellows will embody the next:

• Linking fellows to teachers, practitioners, and specialists throughout the Columbia Global Center community.
• Matching every fellow with a Columbia University college member who will present mentorship, recommendation, and help.
• Providing entry to on-line programs at Columbia University and customised coaching workshops to construct the tutorial capability of incoming fellows.
• Facilitating palms-on studying alternatives in program planning and implementation.
• Assisting fellows in convening roundtable discussions, conferences, and/or talks of their respective topic areas.
• Enabling fellows to embark on their educational pursuits in a protected surroundings.
• Highlighting fellows’ publications and different mental endeavors by disseminating their work and facilitating trade by the Global Center community and Columbia University at giant.

Benefits

Scholars obtain the next:

• Hosting and workspace at one of many Columbia Global Centers (Amman, Nairobi, or Santiago).
• A stipend.
• Dedicated mentorship from esteemed Columbia college.
• A small analysis/journey fund to help their scholarly endeavors.
• Training that meets their educational wants in areas corresponding to educational writing.
• Access to a broad collection of on-line programs.
• Full integration into the colourful lifetime of one of many Columbia Global Centers.
• Inclusion in an alumni community.

Eligibility

Eligible candidates are students within the humanities and humanistic social sciences who’ve been forcibly uprooted from their home nations and respective educational establishments. They might be postdoctoral students within the early levels of their careers or Ph.D. candidates who’ve had their training disrupted. Creative writers, artists, curators, and students engaged on interdisciplinary tasks are inspired to apply.

• Applicant have to be displaced.
• Must have a Ph.D. within the humanities (with uncommon exceptions, candidates with a non-terminal M.A. or who have been on observe to get a PhD could also be thought-about).
• Must be primarily based within the area of the Global Center to which they want to apply (Sub-Saharan Africa for Nairobi; Middle East or North Africa for Amman; Latin America or the Caribbean for Santiago).
• Must reveal no less than an intermediate stage of English language proficiency.
• Must have acquired their highest educational diploma throughout the final 12 years. Exceptions to this timeline will probably be thought-about to accommodate profession-particular trajectories or different circumstances.
• While it’s most popular that fellows stay in individual on the related Columbia Global Center at some point of the fellowship, there’s a minimal in-individual requirement of six months if it isn’t possible for the guy to stay in individual resulting from immigration, household-associated, or different circumstances.
• Researchers engaged on interdisciplinary analysis tasks are welcome to apply.
• Fellows are anticipated to take part in scholarly shows, workshops, and roundtable discussions. Through the Global Center, they are going to be linked to a world community of teachers and students from Columbia University and past.

Selection Criteria

The fellowship is meant to help students whose analysis was interrupted resulting from displacement, and who haven’t but had the OPPORTUNITY to appreciate the scope and output of their mental pursuits. Key choice standards embody the next:

• The general substance and feasibility of the proposed educational analysis.
• The high quality of the precise plan for carrying out the proposed work in a one-yr time-frame.
• The candidate’s educational trajectory previous to their displacement.
• The high quality and depth of the applicant’s earlier work.
• The potential for analysis development.

Application

Applicants for the fellowship program beginning in September 2025 should submit the next by way of Submittable by March 19, 2025 at 11:59 EDT:

• A curriculum vitae that features educational credentials {and professional} expertise.
• A private assertion (500 phrases most) that describes the applicant’s motivation for making use of to this program, mental trajectory and profession targets, and the explanation for and impression of displacement on the applicant’s profession.
• A proposal (600 phrases most) describing the applicant’s area of curiosity; an in depth plan that describes the tutorial work (by month or quarter) that will probably be undertaken throughout the 12-month fellowship; and the broader potential significance of the applicant’s work.
• One writing pattern/publication
• Letter of advice from an instructional colleague who’s conversant in the applicant’s earlier work
  • Note that this letter have to be submitted by the recommender by way of the Submittable platform.
• Copies of educational transcripts

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For extra info, go to Columbia Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship.