Scholarships

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

The program offers five key instruments of professional advancement: meaningful teaching (Fellows teach one course per term); collaborative intellectual exploration (through participation during the first year in the year-long Faculty Seminar); interaction with the broader world of scholarship and public life (through the staging of a symposium connected to the Fellow’s teaching and research interests, which occurs in the spring semester of the Fellow’s second year); mentoring (through association with host departments and programs); and the time and resources for scholarly endeavor (a reduced teaching load, support for research and travel).

Technical Assistants receive a scholarship covering full tuition, room & board at the dormitory rate for a period of study for one or two weeks. Applicants should have completed one year of graduate specialization, or the equivalent, in the area for which aid is requested. Because technical assistants are responsible for assisting the instructor, and for shop maintenance and organization, they are expected to be familiar with the general technical requirements of a particular studio and instructor.

Haystack’s work study program is intended for those who show high promise in their field, and who need help in meeting the expense of a Haystack session. In exchange for a scholarship that covers their full tuition, room & board, work study students will be assigned tasks in the kitchen, or around the school that will not exceed three hours daily, ensuring that each student will have ample time for personal work and study in the studio.