Institute of Current World Affairs


FELLOWSHIPS 2009-2010

The Institute is currently funding seven fellows and will appoint a new fellow in June 2010.

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 Burma, India, North Africa, Venezuela, and Southeast Asia, 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


Trying out loungers at Beijing’s IKEA, 2004


“At first glance, this group may not look so impressive with its collective rear end sinking into the cushions. However, according to political scientists as well as some of my own (middle class) Chinese friends, these are the people who will quite likely determine the future of the country’s political system, and thus, the direction of China as a whole. The basic idea here is that an increasingly wealthy middle class focused on safeguarding its property will be more likely than any other force to push for democratic and legal reforms; you need a bourgeois class before you can have a bourgeois ‘revolution’.” [read newsletter]


—Alexander Brenner

China

ICWA Fellow (2003-2005)