This is a collection of fellowships offered by the Council on Foreign Relations that support professionals in the field gain higher understandings of foreign policy, either domestically or abroad. There are fellowships for simply policy-related work, in addition to programs to Canada, India, and Japan, as well as those specifically for military personnel or international relations professors. These fellowships are incredibly diverse in what they offer to the individuals who are accepted, which also varies on the fellowship itself.
Tag: Social Sciences & Public Policy
CSCE Fellowships with a Policy or Communications Focus
The Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe seeks candidates for its Max Kampelman Fellowship program. The program is open to students with previous internship experience. Fellows work in political and military affairs, economic and environmental matters, or respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund (DPSF)
The Davis-Putter scholarship is a need-based grant given to students who are able to do academic work at the college level or are enrolled in a trade or technical program and are actively working for peace and justice.
Don Lavoie Fellowship
This fellowship program is focused on the current state of the political economy and how to use that information to learn from and conduct research in the field of economics. All programming is conducted virtually and includes online reading group sessions and discussions forums that allow for fellows to participate in conversations related to readings, podcasts, and videos from the Austrian, Bloomington, and Virginia schools of political economy. This program also functions as a networking opportunity to meet current researchers and professors who are in the center of this field’s current research.
Donald M. Payne Fellowship Program
The USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program seeks to attract outstanding individuals who want to work on the front lines of pressing global challenges – poverty, hunger, injustice, disease, environmental degradation, climate change, conflict and violent extremism – through the US Agency for International Development Foreign Service.
EHLS Scholarship Program for Native Speakers of Critical Languages
Native speakers of critical languages for America’s security interest are trained to be affective communicators and strong candidate for a career in government.
Católica Fellowships for Portuguese American Students
If selected, scholarship winners will receive a full tuition and fee waiver for any two-year master’s program that is offered at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Applicants must be U.S. citizens of Portuguese decent and must have graduated college with at least a 3.0 GPA and must maintain that GPA for the program in order to have their scholarship renewed for the second year. If the program selected by the student is fully taught in Portuguese, proof of Portuguese fluency must be sent in with the application. Further, based on the program selected, applicants may also be required to pass interviews or write specific essays as part of their application.
CHCI Public Policy Fellow
The Public Policy Fellowship sponsored by The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute offers paid fellowships to talented young Latinos who are pursuing a career in public policy. The goal is to help accelerate the careers of Latinos interested in public policy so that there will be more Latinos to attain higher levels of policy leadership. Fellows will spend nine months working in Washington, D.C.
Bobby R. Inman Award for Student Scholarship
The Inman Award competition is designed to recognize outstanding research and writing by students at the undergraduate or graduate levels on topics related to intelligence and national security. There is no prescribed topic, format, or length for papers submitted.
Blakemore Freeman Fellowships
Blakemore Freeman Fellowships are awarded for one academic year of full-time, intensive language study of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, or Khmer at the advanced level in approved language programs in East or Southeast Asia. Applicants must be American citizens or permanent residents of the United States.