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Boren Fellowship for Critical Language Study

The Boren Fellowship supports graduate students who are U.S. citizens and who want to pursue language study in non-traditional regions and countries for a minimum of six months. Applicants also have the option to add a self-designed research component. As alumni, Boren Fellows are committed to public service, working in federal positions.

The Boren Fellowship funds language study and research proposals by U.S. graduate students in world regions critical to U.S. interests. It provides up to $25,000 for 25-52 weeks and up to an additional $5,000 for domestic language study during the summer preceding the overseas portion. This is entirely optional but may be useful preparation for Boren Fellows whose overseas program requires they arrive at their overseas location with strong language skills.

Eligible regions include Africa, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and former Soviet Republics, Latin America, and the Middle East. Boren Fellowships MAY NOT be used for study in Western Europe, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.

In addition to self-designed study programs in eligible countries, the Boren Awards program offers two regional language initiatives. These include domestic and overseas study:

African Flagship Languages Initiative (AFLI) to study French, Swahili, Akan/Twi, Wolof, or Zulu;
Southeast Asian Flagship Languages Initiative (SEAFLI) to study either Indonesian, Thai, or Vietnamese

Information Sessions
Learn more and register for an upcoming session:

Interested but unable to attend? Please contact Leslie Brice Bustamante at lbrice@umd.edu.

Important: The Boren Fellowship is a U.S. Government-funded award that seeks applicants who have a strong interest in future Federal Government service; the award carries a one-year service requirement.

Important: Participants must maintain their student status while abroad and may be responsible for associated fees and minimum tuition requirements.

High Acceptance Rate: All UMD applicants for the Boren Fellowship are encouraged to participate in a campus application process, which is designed to help strengthen the application. UMD graduate students have over a 50% acceptance rate!

National Deadline: January 22, 2026 at 5:00 pm ET

NSF GRFP Is Now Accepting Applications for the Next Cycle (2026-2027 Academic Year)

Established in 1952, the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s oldest graduate fellowship program. It supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master’s or doctoral degrees in STEM or STEM-related fields, ranging from engineering to physical sciences, life sciences, and social sciences as well as STEM education.

Program highlights include:

Financial support for three years (within a five-year period)
Stipend: $37,000
Cost of Education allowance: $16,000 per year
No service requirement after completion of the fellowship

We encourage prospective applicants, faculty, and staff to view the GRFP Solicitation for eligibility requirements and program guidelines.

For additional information about the GRFP and the application deadlines, please visit www.nsfgrfp.org. The application deadline window from November 10-14, 2025, varies by program.

2025-2026 Mercatus Center Graduate Student Fellowships

Applications for the Mercatus Graduate Student Fellowships close this week on March 15, 2025! Graduate students at any university and in any discipline are eligible to apply. All fellowships still open to applications are listed below.

We offer fellowships for students at George Mason University, for students pursuing other degrees at universities around the world, for high school students, and for early-career scholars.

Mercatus Center Fellowships expose participants to the ideas of mainline political economy and their real-world implications through robust discussion; provide financial assistance, exposure to scholars, and research experience; and connect fellows to an extensive alumni network.

Successful fellows have gone on to pursue careers in academia as well as public policy positions in federal and state governments and at prominent research institutions.

To learn more about our fellowships and apply, browse our fellowships below or visit our website.

2025–2027 Chloe Center Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce a new two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Review of applications will begin on March 1, 2025.

Chloe Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Description

The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is an academic program exploring the historical and contemporary intersections of empire, migration, and racial hierarchy. It hosts programming both on and off the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus and serves as home to a new undergraduate major, Critical Diaspora Studies.

The Chloe Center invites scholars conversant in ethnic studies and its adjacent disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to apply for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, 2025–2027.

The postdoctoral fellowship, beginning on July 1, 2025, will support recent doctoral degree recipients (Ph.D. awarded no earlier than January 1, 2021) whose scholarship engages with questions and topics directly related to the Chloe Center’s mission.

The Chloe Center remains committed to analyzing institutional racism and probing connections among areas too often considered separately from one another, connections created by entangled histories of migration, colonialism, and social movements. The Center thus seeks scholars whose work moves beyond singular identitarian modes of knowledge production to study the overlaps, solidarities, and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study—such as Asian-American, African diaspora, Indigenous studies, and Latinx studies. The fellow will engage actively JHU’s interdisciplinary community of scholars, graduate students, and undergraduate students, as well as members of the wider public in Baltimore. We seek, especially, candidates interested in extending their research and public engagement in new directions in partnership and mentorship with Chloe Center faculty.

The fellow will carry out their own research and contribute to organizing campus and public-facing events. Over two years, the fellow will teach no more than five undergraduate courses in the Critical Diaspora Studies major. The fellow will also be invited to participate regularly in Chloe Center and other campus programming.

The Critical Diaspora Studies major consists of four tracks: Migration and Borders; Global Indigeneities; Empires, Wars, and Carceralities; and Solidarities, Social Movements, and Citizenship. The major emphasizes community-engaged learning and comparative and transnational methods. It was primarily envisioned by student activists. Scholars whose work engages with the Critical Diaspora Studies tracks of Global Indigeneities or Migration and Borders are particularly encouraged to apply.

Compensation

Fellows will be appointed for two years and will receive an annual stipend of $70,000, health insurance, and modest moving and research budgets.

Application

To apply, please provide a cover letter outlining a research and teaching agenda, a CV, a chapter- or article-length writing sample, and two course overviews (title, level/type of course, and one paragraph description), as well as the names and contact information for two references.

Submit applications at Interfolio. Applications received by March 1, 2025, will receive the best consideration.

NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship

NIJ seeks applications for the FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship program, which supports doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States.

The official applicant is the sponsoring academic institution located in the United States or its territories, and students must apply through their institution. To be eligible, the academic institution must be fully accredited by one of the regional institutional accreditation agencies recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education.

Academic institutions are eligible to apply only if:

The student is currently enrolled in a research doctorate program at the eligible academic institution. Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts degree programs are not eligible.
The student’s proposed dissertation research has demonstrable relevance to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice, in the United States.

An applicant may submit more than one application, but each application must propose sponsoring a different student.

Learn more about the Graduate Research Fellowship program and the current solicitation at an informational webinar on February 13, 2025, at 11:30 – 1:00 p.m. ET. Register for the webinar. Submit any questions in advance to grf@usdoj.gov no later than February 11, 2025 with the subject “Questions for NIJ FY25 Graduate Research Fellowship Webinar.”

Applications will be submitted in a two-step process, each with its own deadline:

Submit SF-424 in Grants.gov. Step 1, Grants.gov Application Deadline: April 15, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET
Submit the full application including attachments in JustGrants. Step 2, JustGrants Application Deadline: April 22, 2025 at 8:59 p.m. ET

NIJ FY 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship – INFORMATION WEBINAR

NIJ FY 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Webinar

Thursday, February 13, 2025 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
(UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Agenda

This webinar will give an overview of NIJ’s Graduate Research Fellowship opportunity, which seeks to support doctoral students whose dissertation research is relevant to preventing and controlling crime, advancing knowledge of victimization and effective victim services, or ensuring the fair and impartial administration of criminal or juvenile justice in the United States.

The presenters will discuss program scope, eligibility, application elements, and frequently asked questions.

Live captioning will be available.

Postdoc Fellowship | Minnesota Population Center

We seek scientists who understand complex health problems and health disparities as resulting from multiple interacting layers of influence that unfold over chronological, biological, and historical time. This exciting program at the University of Minnesota, housed in the Minnesota Population Center, features cross-training in the biology and etiology of disease as well as in the social sciences. The program includes engagement in independent and collaborative population health research, supervised by interdisciplinary teams of faculty, and intensive professional socialization. It is designed to integrate trainees from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and prepare them to have outstanding careers as population health scientists.

Interested candidates can read more about our program online.

Please direct all questions to Lindsey Fabian (fabian@umn.edu).

SRCD U.S. Policy Fellowship Program

SRCD U.S. Policy Fellowship Program

The SRCD Policy Fellowship immerses postdoctoral child development experts over one to two years in a U.S. federal agency, state agency, or congressional placement where they work full time on child and family policy. With over 30 years in operation, this program is a prestigious opportunity. Apply for the 2025-2026 cohort before January 6, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

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Harvard Bell Fellowships

Applications for the 2025–2027 cohort of Harvard Bell Fellows are now being accepted!
The deadline to apply is Tuesday, December 3, 2024.

The Bell Fellowship Program provides opportunities for research and leadership training in a two-year, non-degree program for researchers and practitioners in the field of population and development.

Selected candidates possess:

a strong record of academic training
a commitment to population and development work
the demonstrated ability to work independently
leadership potential

Harvard Bell Fellows examine a broad range of critical issues in the field of population and development studies from multidisciplinary perspectives. Most Fellows will have interests that match the focal areas of HCPDS. A wide range of perspectives will enhance the Fellows’ experiences and broaden the community life at the Center.

Please be sure to read through ALL the pages, including the FAQ section where there is important information. If you have questions, please email popcenter@hsph.harvard.edu.