Fully Funded Research Fellowship in International Policy Research at Pennsylvania University in the USA 2020

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Nonprofit organization

The University of Pennsylvania

Area

America

Host Country

United States of America

Deadline

13 Jan 2020

Study level

Doctoral Degree

Specialities

Law

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

Algeria , Comoros , Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon , Mauritania , Oman , Qatar , Somalia , Syria , United Arab Emirates , Bahrain , Djibouti , Iraq , Kuwait , Libya , Morocco , Palestine , Saudi Arabia , Sudan , Tunisia , Yemen

Eligible Region

All Regions

The Global Innovation Program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House announced its postdoctoral fellowship program for the 2020-2021 academic year. The Global Innovation Program is the research arm of Perry World House, the University of Pennsylvania’s new university-wide hub for global engagement and interdisciplinary international policy research.

Perry World House connects Penn to the international policy world through research, student engagement, and public programming, bringing the university’s intellectual resources to bear on the urgent global challenges of the 21st century. The program hope to bring several postdoctoral fellows to campus for the 2020-2021 academic year. And seeking excellent scholars who study global affairs and have interest in interdisciplinary outreach and policy relevance. The program is particularly interested in applicants in the following areas:

The Future of the Global Order: Power, Technology, and Governance
Global Shifts: Urbanization, Migration, and Demography.

Program Details:

Postdoctoral fellows in Global Order and Global Shifts research areas will pursue their own research as well as participate in the intellectual life of the Global Innovation Program and Perry World House. Postdoctoral fellows will be expected to give a presentation during the academic year in the Perry World House Seminar Series, publish policy-relevant scholarship related to Perry World House themes, and attend regularly scheduled seminars.

Fellows will also be expected to spend up to 10% of their time contributing to the intellectual environment at Perry World House, including working with Perry World House’s Undergraduate Student Fellows, as well as designing and planning engagement in relevant theme areas. Perry World House will also introduce each postdoctoral fellow to related faculty and leaders of centers and institutes at the University of Pennsylvania.

Benefits:

All postdoctoral fellow positions pay a stipend of $53,000 plus relevant fees and health insurance.
The position also provides $2,000 in research support.

Eligibility:

This fellowship is open to scholars who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees (including a J.D. in the case of applicants focused on international legal regimes) in the last two years (not earlier than 2018), or who expected to complete their degree by June 2020.

Required Documents:

Applicants will be asked to provide the following:

Application form.
Cover letter.
CV/ resume.
One page research statement.
Writing sample.
Unofficial Ph.D. transcript (only required for current graduate students)
The name and email address of two-letter writers who can submit a letter of recommendation.

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