PRRI Public Fellows Program 2026-2027 ($5,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: June 19, 2026

Applications are open for the PRRI Public Fellows Program 2026-2027. Created in 2017, the PRRI Public Fellows program is an 11-month, non-residential fellowship that helps researchers develop and hone their capacity to deliver tutorial analysis to a broader public viewers. This program is right for mid-profession students who need to have interaction broader audiences by shaping their work for public consumption and to generate impactful commentary and evaluation on the intersection of faith, tradition, and politics.

The PRRI Public Fellows program seeks a various cohort of 9 students working throughout the next key areas of PRRI’s analysis:

• Pluralism and Democracy
• Immigration and American Society
• LGBTQ Rights and Gender Politics.

Benefits

PRRI Public Fellows within the 2026-2027 cohort will obtain the next:

• An 11-month fellowship with a cohort of 9 numerous students engaged in public scholarship; 
• Fellowship stipend of $5,000;
• Course launch funds as much as $10,000 for the Spring 2027 semester; 
• Access to annual microgrants of as much as $10,000 in every space of PRRI’s work for brand new interdisciplinary scholarly tasks inside the cohort;
• Virtual month-to-month conferences and quarterly trainings/workshops;
• A Spring 2027 in-particular person convening in Washington, D.C., with journey bills paid by PRRI. During the convening, fellows will meet with writers from main media shops, obtain media coaching, and dialogue with consultants in writing for commerce, crossover, and non-tutorial books;
• Advance entry to PRRI information and archives;
• Collaborative work with PRRI’s analysis and communications groups;
• For fellows from primarily qualitative and humanities backgrounds, PRRI will present coaching, assist, and recommendation on tips on how to join public-opinion survey analysis to their discipline of experience

Eligibility

• Fellows should have a Ph.D. or comparable terminal diploma plus a proper affiliation with an accredited faculty, college, seminary, or analysis institute within the United States; 
• Fellows should have earned their terminal diploma a minimum of three years in the past and not more than 12 years in the past; 
• Fellows ought to have demonstrable tutorial experience in a minimum of one of many following key areas of PRRI’s work (Pluralism and Democracy; Immigration and American Society; and LGBTQ Rights and Gender Politics);
• Fellows have to be approved to work within the United States.

Application

The application contains:

• Statement of curiosity: In 800 phrases or much less, clarify your curiosity in pursuing this fellowship OPPORTUNITY and your skilled improvement objectives in public scholarship.
• Current curriculum vitae
• Work samples (3): Provide hyperlinks to and PDF copies of three articles, op-eds, or blogs revealed inside the final three years, ideally in publications or websites geared toward most people. These samples ought to be your greatest current work.

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For extra info, go to PRRI Public Fellows Program.