Kuwait Program Visiting Scholar Fellowship 2027-2028 ($10,000 stipend) – YOA

Deadline: December 1, 2026

Applications are open for the Kuwait Program Visiting Scholar Fellowship 2027-2028. The Kuwait Program Visiting Scholar Fellowship on the Middle East Initiative brings senior coverage-oriented students to campus for one semester or one educational yr, relying on their availability, to conduct a study group or pursue an impartial analysis challenge on a crucial public coverage space related to Kuwait and the Gulf area.

Visiting Scholars obtain a stipend, journey help, and entry to Harvard’s libraries and different assets. This fellowship helps the Kuwait Program’s broader goal of advancing proof-primarily based, rigorously scientific options to public coverage challenges going through the State of Kuwait, the Gulf area, and the world.

Applicants could suggest one of many following actions:

• Lead a Study Group: An superior educational seminar for Harvard college students, comprising 4 to seven periods, on a subject of the scholar’s selecting. Student individuals can be chosen by way of a aggressive application course of and anticipated to attend often. Study group proceedings could also be developed in to a Kuwait Program report revealed by the Middle East Initiative on the Harvard Kennedy School.
• Conduct a Research Project: An impartial analysis challenge associated to the scholar’s space of experience, ideally in collaboration with a Harvard college member. The challenge ought to in the end culminate in a major scholarly output, similar to a e book, edited quantity, or paper to be revealed by the Middle East Initiative underneath the Kuwait Program on the Harvard Kennedy School, or a peer-reviewed open-entry journal article.

Stipend

• The present a stipend of $10,000/month

Eligibility

• The Kuwait Program Research Fellowship is designed to draw probably the most achieved senior coverage-oriented students and college from Kuwait.
• Applicants have to be from Kuwait, presently residing and dealing in Kuwait, or formally affiliated with a Kuwait-based educational or analysis establishment.
• Priority will likely be given to candidates whose proposals middle a number of of the next precedence coverage areas as they relate to the State of Kuwait and the Gulf area: well being, schooling, vitality, setting, water and meals safety, and digital transformation and synthetic intelligence.

Application

All candidates should submit the next supplies:

• CV/Resume: This ought to embrace all levels earned (with dates), in addition to anticipated dates of completion for any levels presently in progress.
• Study Group or Research Project Proposal (3-5 pages): Describe the challenge you plan to pursue when in residence on the Harvard Kennedy School. 
• Study Group Proposals ought to embrace:
  • Title and outline that summarizes what total subject you’d wish to discover over the course of the periods, with background and context into the subject and key areas of curiosity/relevance to HKS college students
  • Proposed define of subtopics organized by session, and whole variety of periods (between 4 and 7 instructed)
  • Proposed/instructed examples of studying assignments for every session
• Research Project Proposals ought to embrace:
  • The key questions, challenges, or gaps that your challenge goals to handle, reply to, or construct upon.
  • Timeline outlining the levels you anticipate for finishing and publishing the proposed analysis.
  • Names of any Harvard college members with whom you want to collaborate, if chosen, and clarify how their work is related to your analysis.
  • Any different potential funding sources you’re pursuing or could pursue.
• Contact info for 3 recommenders: Please observe that you’re answerable for guaranteeing that your recommenders submit their suggestions. MEI ordinarily is not going to contact delinquent recommenders. 
• Writing Sample (fewer than 50 pages, English language solely):
  • Must embrace an summary of 300 phrases or much less 
  • Will ideally be single-authored 
  • Can be both revealed or unpublished 
  • Must be composed with out the usage of generative AI.
  • Examples embrace: coverage temporary, journal article, e book chapter, dissertation chapter, or white paper you may have produced in your discipline. 

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For extra info, go to Kuwait Program Visiting Scholar Fellowship.