Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships

The Woodrow Wilson Center awards approximately 20-25 fellowships annually to individuals with project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Fellowships provide for residency and research within the United States (US). Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance. Fellows are expected to be in residence for the entire US academic year (early September through May, i.e., 9 months), although a few fellowships are occasionally awarded for shorter periods with a minimum of four months.

Eligibility

• Citizens or permanent residents from any country (foreign nationals must be able to hold a valid passport and obtain a US J1 Visa)
• Men and women with outstanding capabilities and experience from a wide variety of backgrounds (including government, the corporate world, professions, and academia)
  
• Academic candidates holding a Ph.D. (Ph.D. must be received by the application deadline of October 1)
  
• Academic candidates demonstrating scholarly achievement by publications beyond their doctoral dissertations
  
• Practitioners or policymakers with an equivalent level of professional achievement
  
• English proficiency (the Center is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas among its fellows.)
  

Primary themes are:

1. governance, including such issues as the key features of the development of democratic institutions, democratic society, civil society, and citizen participation;
   
2. the US role in the world and issues of partnership and leadership - military, political, and economic dimensions; and
   
3. key long-term future challenges confronting the US and the world.
   

Ineligibility

• Applicants working on a degree (even if the degree is to be awarded prior to the proposed fellowship year)
  
• Proposals of a partisan or advocacy nature
  
• Primary research in the natural sciences
• Projects that create musical composition or dance
  
• Projects in the visual arts
  
• Projects that are the rewriting of doctoral dissertations
  
• The editing of texts, papers, or documents
  
• The preparation of textbooks, anthologies, translations, and memoirs