Applications are now open for the Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship Program 2020. Through an international competition, the Center offers 9-month residential fellowships. The Wilson Center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists, also public intellectuals to take part in its flagship international Fellowship Program. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest while interacting with policymakers in Washington and Wilson Center staff and other scholars in residence. The Center accepts policy-relevant, Further, non-advocacy fellowship proposals that address key challenges confronting the United States and the world. The Center welcomes, in particular, those projects that transcend narrow specialties and methodological issues of interest only within a specific academic discipline. Projects should involve fresh research-—in terms of both the overall field and the author’s previous work.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars aims to unite the world of ideas to the world of policy by supporting pre-eminent scholarship also linking that scholarship to issues of concern to officials in Washington.

Opportunity Focus Areas

• Business
• Government
• Journalism
• Law

Benefit

• The Center offers a stipend of $90,000 for a nine-month fellowship. Fellows are responsible for their own health insurance and travel expenses.

Eligibility

• Citizens or permanent residents from any country (applicants from countries outside the United States must hold a valid passport and be able to obtain a J-1 visa even if they are currently in the United States). (Read more information on visas.) Please contact the Center if you have any questions about your eligibility to obtain a J1 visa.
• Women and men with outstanding capabilities and experience from a wide variety of backgrounds (including academia, business, government, journalism, law, and also other professions)
• Academic candidates must be at the post-doctoral level and have published a book or monograph beyond the Ph.D. dissertation.
• Likewise, Practitioners or policymakers with an equivalent level of professional achievement
• English proficiency as the Center is designed to encourage the exchange of ideas among its fellows