Institute of Current World Affairs


FELLOWSHIPS 2010

The Institute is currently funding four fellows and will appoint a new fellow in June 2010. Initial applications for this appointment are now closed. Letters of interest for our  December 2010 selection will be due by August 1st.

Candidates who meet the eligibility requirements are encouraged to propose fellowships in areas that interest them. They must present a strong rationale for the topic of their proposed fellowship. Areas of particular interest to the Institute include Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, North Africa (east and west), and Venezuela, but candidates may seek fellowships in any country.

Most fellows are supported from the Institute's endowment. Fellows with appropriate topics may receive support from specifically endowed funds, including:


John O. Crane Memorial Fellowship

For fellows in Central and Eastern Europe or the Middle East.


John Miller Musser Memorial Forest & Society Fellowships

For fellows with graduate degrees in forestry or forest-related specialties. To broaden their understanding of the relationship of forest resource problems to humans, including policy makers, environmentalists, farmers, scientists, and forest-product industrialists.

In addition, the generosity of our contributors enables the Institute to appoint Donors' Fellows every two years. Topics and areas of study are unrestricted.

 

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From the Archive


Julius Nyerere digs in, Tanganyika 1963


“To one newly arrived on this coast from West Africa, the most striking thing about Julius K. Nyerere, President of Tanganyika, is the photograph on Page 3 of this newsletter. It is an official picture, used widely on posters and on the 1963 calendar of the Tanganyika African National Union, the governing political party… To my knowledge, no West African chief of state has had himself photographed using an agricultural tool. In West Africa, the visual symbols of government all too often seem to add up to this: mobilization for the masses, Mercedes for the ministers.” [read newsletter]


—David Hapgood

West Africa

ICWA Fellow (1961-1963)