Graduate Fellowships

The Peace Studies Program will award at least four graduate student fellowships for the 2008–09 year. The fellowships cover tuition plus a stipend and health insurance for Cornell Ph.D. students whose research explicitly treats issues of security, conflict, or collective violence. Preference will be given to students whose work would benefit from and contribute to the inter-disciplinary exchange fostered by the Program. Successful applicants are expected to participate in Program activities, including the weekly seminar and monthly research dinner seminar.

The fellowships will support students whose work is relevant to peace studies. Examples of topics that have been supported in the past include dual-use technology and weapons proliferation; international humanitarian law and the norms of warfare; the impact of new technologies and strategies; regional security; histories of war or peace; studies of ethnic conflict; international political economy related to security; civil-military relations; terrorism; and post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction.

PSP fellowship support from external funds is not intended to substitute for Cornell financial support. In order to receive a PSP fellowship, the DGS of the student’s graduate field must affirm that the PSP support will not replace other guaranteed support. The only exception to this rule is the Bluestone Fellowship, which is awarded by Peace Studies but funded by the Graduate School.

To apply for one of the fellowships a student should submit:

• a cover sheet (form available by clicking here also, available in the office)
• a short thesis prospectus, including a section on research methods; or a general statement of research interests, if the applicant is not at the dissertation stage
• a copy of his/her Cornell transcript
• a letter of recommendation from his/her committee chairperson

Deadline: Thursday, March 14, 2008

The applicant should submit materials to:
Fellowship Committee
Peace Studies Program
130 Uris Hall

In general, preference will be given to students who plan to be in residence at Cornell during 2008–09, but we will also consider applications from students who are planning field work where the research abroad is clearly relevant to a peace studies topic.