Scholarships

supports original research by visiting scholars. Preference is given to those applicants that will be in residence at the Arboretum for a portion of the research

Fellowships support recent doctorate recipients whose research tackles complex environmental problems. The Fellows work with Harvard faculty members in any school or department to create new knowledge while also strengthening connections across the University’s academic disciplines. Recipients—and hosts—may include people with degrees in the sciences, economics, law, government, public policy, public health, medicine, design, and the full array of humanities. This fellowship is for two years.

Fellowships support research on any period of Chinese history or contemporary China, and may involve any academic discipline. Each fellow will be expected to pursue his or her own research and contribute to Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies programs. Priority will be given to applicants working in the fields of a) environmental humanities/social sciences or b) digital humanities/social sciences. However, applications are also welcome from scholars in other fields. The fellowships are for one year.

The Center invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s seminar on the topic of “migration and the humanities.” They are particularly interested in proposals that engage with migration, cultural memory, and the archive. In addition to pursuing their own research projects, fellows will be core participants in bi-weekly seminar meetings. Fellows are expected to be in residence at Harvard for the term of the fellowship. The fellowship offers support for one year.

Travel grants are for research in animal systematics in order to stimulate taxonomic work on neglected taxa. These include taxa with numerous poorly described species, genera and families known to have many undescribed species in institutional collections, taxa for which it is unknown what proportion of the nominal species are synonyms, and difficult genera without keys.

Fellowships support postdoctoral research that illuminates Japan’s relations with the rest of the world in the broadest sense. Applicants may come from anthropology, economics, (modern) history, law, political science, public health, and sociology, among other fields. Scholars may examine domestic issues that bear on Japan’s external relations or problems that it shares with other countries. Projects that compare Japan’s experience cross-nationally are encouraged. Fellows have the option of teaching one undergraduate course during the fall or spring semester of the academic year. Areas of particular interest include Japanese popular culture; Japanese imperialism/ war memory; gender and politics in East Asia; political economy of Japan; and Japanese Americans in history, culture, politics, and/or society. Broader courses that include, but are not limited to, Japan are especially encouraged. The fellowship offers support for ten months.

Fellowships offer recent PhDs in Japanese Studies an opportunity to turn their dissertation into publishable manuscripts. Areas of particular interest for 2018-19 tentatively include Japanese popular culture; Japanese imperialism/war memory; gender and politics in East Asia; political economy of Japan; and Japanese Americans in history, culture, politics, and/or society. Fellows may have the option to teach one undergraduate course during the fall or spring semester of the academic year, or co-teach an existing course with a current faculty member. Residence in the Cambridge/Boston area and participation in Institute activities are required. The Fellowship offers support for 10 months.

Fellowships support experimentalists in all areas of energy science and engineering at an early career stage to establish an independent research program at Harvard University. The fellowship offers support for up to five years.

Fellowships seek to expand the diversity of those entering academic public health and create a bridge between academic training in health-related disciplines and entry-level faculty positions at institutions throughout the United States. Fellowship training is available throughout the broad range of the school’s activities— laboratory sciences, population sciences, and social and policy sciences.

Fellowships support dissertation completion and postdoctoral research in any department of the University. Fellows undertake sustained projects of research or other original work, or may devote their time to the acquisition of accessory disciplines, so as to prepare themselves for the investigation of problems lying between conventional fields. Fellows are required to be in residence in Cambridge or neighboring communities during the academic year and to attend the weekly lunches and dinners. They are expected to work full-time in the office or lab space provided to them by the University during term time