Princeton University is pleased to announce the call for applications to the Fung Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.  Each year the program selects six scholars from around the world to be in residence at Princeton for an academic year as well as to engage in research and discussion around a common theme.

Moreover, candidates will be considered in three categories:

(1) Four of the fellowships will be awarded to early-career scholars employed in the equivalent of tenure-track positions who are expected to return to their position.

(2)  One fellowship is set aside for a postdoctoral research associate who at the time of application does not have a tenure-track faculty appointment.

(3) In addition, one fellowship will be awarded to a senior scholar.  All candidates must be based outside the United States.

During the academic year 2019-20, the Fung Global Fellows Program theme will be “Thinking Globally.” How people have thought about the planet has informed the institutions, norms, and policies that have pulled it together and torn it apart.  The goal of this research theme is to explore how ideas framed the understanding of interests and the making of institutions that have yielded commonness and conflict across and within borders. The Program will also examine rival world ideas that have challenged prevailing orthodoxies. Likewise, the goal of the 2019-20 Fung Global Fellows cohort will be to explore the ways people learned to rely on or to reject strangers far away, as well as to imagine how global relationships came to be and could be different.

Requirements

• All candidates must reside outside the United States.
• To be eligible, postdoctoral applicants must have completed all requirements for their Ph.D. before August 1, 2019 but cannot have received their degrees more than three years prior to the start of the appointment on September 1, 2019.
• Early-career fellows must have received their Ph.D. or equivalent no earlier than September 1, 2009.
• Senior scholars, who have received their doctorates before 2009, must have faculty appointments and a record of scholarly accomplishment in the designated theme of the program.

Fellowships will be awarded on the strength of a candidate’s proposed research project, the relationship of the project to the program theme, the candidate’s scholarly record, and the ability to contribute to the intellectual life of the program.

Applicants of respective categories may apply in the  following links :

Postdoctoral Applicants

Early Career Fellows

Senior Fellows