Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Who Can Apply

Functional Categories:
Promotion of the Arts
Promotion of the Humanities
General Research and Evaluation
Resource Development and Support - Higher Education

Applicants:
Individual/Family

Applicant Eligibility:
Individuals from any country are welcome to apply. Men and women with outstanding capabilities and experience from a wide variety of backgrounds (including government, the corporate world, and the professions, as well as academia) are eligible for appointment. Successsful fellowship applicants submit outstanding proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and or international issues--topics and scholarship that relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illumine policy issues of contemporary importance. Proposals that represent essentially advocacy are not eligible. The Center normally does not consider projects that represent essentially the rewriting of doctoral dissertations; the editing of papers and documents; the preparation of textbooks or miscellaneous papers and reviews; anthologies, memoirs or translations.

Beneficiaries:
Quasi-public non-profit organization
Private non-profit institution/organization
Public nonprofit institution/organization
Education Professional
Student/Trainee
Graduate Student
Artist/Humanist

Beneficiary Eligibility:
Citizens from all countries will benefit.

Credentials/Documentation:
For academic participants, eligibility is limited to the postdoctoral level, and normally it is expected that academic candidates will have demonstrated their scholarly development by publication beyond the Ph.D. dissertation. For other applicants, an equivalent degree of professional achievement is expected. An applicant working on a degree at the time of application (even if it is to be completed prior to the proposed fellowship year) is not eligible. All applicants should have a very good command of spoken English, since the Center is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas among its fellows.