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Frederic Conger Wood Research Fellowship

The deadline for this opportunity has passed.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2026
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Details

Established in 1993 with a generous bequest from the estate of Cornell alumnus and trustee Frederic Conger Wood, these fellowships support undergraduate research in Europe.

Undergraduates from all colleges are invited to submit applications to pursue independent research projects focused on Europe.

During the summer, Conger Wood fellows spend two to eight weeks pursuing field study in Europe, and upon their return write up the results of their research. These fellowships can be combined with projects tied to attending Cornell summer courses taught in Europe.

Application deadline for winter break travel: December 1, 2025

Application deadline for summer travel: March 1, 2026

Funding Guidelines

  • 2-3 week project at 20-40 hours per week = $1,500 - $2,500
  • 4-8 week project at 20-40 hours per week = $2,500 - $4,000

Funding will be distributed through bursar accounts.

Requirements

  • 4-5 page project proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
  • Budget (identify the level of funding requested using the options above, and list your estimated costs for airfare, lodging, food, etc.)
  • 1 letter of recommendation from Cornell faculty
  • Transcript 
The online application form requires applicants to provide the names and email addresses of faculty recommenders. The online system automatically generates a notification email to the recommenders with instructions on how to log in and upload a recommendation letter. The submission deadline for a letter of recommendation is March 8, 2026.

Contact IES with questions about this award.

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Additional Information

Funding Type

  • Fellowship

Role

  • Student

Program

Institute for European Studies

Graduate Fellowships

The deadline for this opportunity has passed.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2026
Application Timeframe: Spring
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Details

These fellowships from the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies support graduate students during a semester of international fieldwork.

The fellowships are awarded to Cornell PhD students in any field whose dissertation research is relevant to the concerns of the institute. Up to two students receive awards each year.

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The fellowships cover in-absentia tuition, a stipend, and health insurance for one semester. The competition for these academic year fellowships is usually announced at the beginning of the spring semester, with an application deadline in March for fellowships beginning the following academic year.

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 on peace or conflict; 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.

Requirements

  • You must be a doctoral student at Cornell conducting off-campus research related to peace and conflict studies.
  • The fellowship support (external funds) is not intended to substitute for Cornell financial support, and should not lead to a reduction in the fellow’s guaranteed package of support at Cornell.
  • You are expected to provide a written output related to your off-campus research—such as one or more dissertation chapters or publications-in-progress—and you may be invited to present on this work in the Reppy Institute seminar series.
  • For equally competitive applications, preference will be granted to those submitted by students with a record of active participation in the intellectual and social life of the Institute, particularly as our weekly seminar series.

How to Apply

  • Complete an online application. You will be asked to provide a thesis title or area of research interest and a short thesis prospectus. Describe what you intend to do during the duration of your research fellowship, including what written work will be produced as a result (e.g., dissertation chapters or a peer-reviewed article) and whether it might make for a suitable research presentation. The recommended length of the prospectus is approximately 2500 words (about 10 pages double-spaced), but longer or shorter proposals are also acceptable.
  • Save your online application as you go. Once you submit your application you will still be able to edit your submission up until the deadline.
  • Ask your committee chairperson to write a letter of recommendation. Once you submit your fellowship application online, your recommender will be given access to the online system and will receive an automatic email prompting him or her to upload a recommendation letter.

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Additional Information

Funding Type

  • Fellowship

Role

  • Student

Program

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

EAP Area Studies Fellowships

Application Deadline: January 26, 2027
Application Timeframe: Fall
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Details

As a major conduit of graduate support, EAP offers the following area studies fellowships to Cornell graduate students whose work has an East Asia focus:

  • Lee Teng-hui Fellowships in World Affairs with East Asia Focus
  • C. V. Starr Fellowships in East Asian Studies
  • Hu Shih Fellowship in Chinese Studies
  • Robert J. Smith Fellowships in Japanese and Korean Studies
  • Diverse Knowledge East Asia

There is a single application for the five fellowships. You can apply for all that are pertinent to your graduate work. 

The application for funding generally opens in November and closes late January of the following year. Typically, these fellowships provide a tuition arrangement with your field, stipend, and health insurance for one semester of the upcoming academic year, either for fall or spring. Exceptional candidates may be considered for an extra semester of support. These fellowships are considered external funding to your field, and students who receive an EAP fellowship should arrange for funding for the rest of the academic year with their department. 

There is no citizenship restriction on any of the above-listed fellowships.

Eligibility 

  • Current Cornell Doctoral Students
  • No Citizenship Restriction

Application Requirements

  • Online Application HERE
  • A Proposal Narrative (see instructions below)
  • Two Letters of Recommendation (see instructions below)
  • A Budget Form (for in-absentia mode only)
  • A Supplemental Statement (for Diverse Knowledge East Asia fellowship only, see instructions below)

Instructions: Proposal Narrative

Proposal Narrative:

  • Explain your research project in non-specialist language – readers may be outside your field of work. ​

  • Explain what you will do during the time of a fellowship. Where will the research take place, and what will be the product of the work? ​

  • Explain concretely how the research fits into your graduate career. What kind of research product is required for your field, and at what stage of the process will you be when you use an EAP fellowship?

  • Fellowships are either in-residence at Cornell or in-absentia (fieldwork research) away from campus. In the application you will be able to select your preferred fellowship mode: 1) writing-focused in residence; 2) research-focused in-absentia; and: if not awarded your preferred mode, would you be open to being considered for another mode.​

  • Length: 2-3 pages long, single-spaced. Aim for 3 pages. Do not exceed 5 pages.

Instructions: Letters of Recommendation

Recommendations from faculty for applications to the EAP Graduate Area Studies Fellowships in addition to evaluating the student's research and study should ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING POINTS regarding the graduate student’s career at Cornell.

1. Given that it is very unlikely that a student will receive more than one EAP fellowship over the course of their graduate career, is the next academic year the best time in the student’s Cornell graduate career to use a fellowship? Another way of thinking of this might be: do you wish to lodge with the EAP fellowship committee the request that a certain student be given priority (all other things being equal) the NEXT year?

2. Are there departmental or graduate field requirements, such as TAing, that would keep the student from making use of an EAP one-semester fellowship?

3. Will the student benefit more from doing research at Cornell, or from doing field work elsewhere in-absentia from Cornell?

4. If the student has any current incompletes on their record, are there any circumstances that would explain why these incompletes should not count against their good standing (e.g. INC is because a non-essential language course was discontinued)?

5. If this student would like to be considered for the Diverse Knowledge East Asia Fellowship category, include in your recommendation how their research in East Asian studies, their graduate study, and career in East Asian studies, and/or their background are impacted by issues of difference, diversity, under-representation, or racial social justice.

The East Asia Program seeks to support students with its fellowships in the manner that most benefits the student’s progress. To this end, we seek to award fellowships in a manner that works in concert with the Graduate School aid package and the graduate fields’ work and timetables.

Instructions: Diverse Knowledge East Asia Fellowship

The East Asia Program seeks to support research that expands and redirects the scope of East Asian Studies, providing more diverse, more inclusive, and more just viewpoints on the histories, cultures, languages, and populations of East Asia in a global frame of reference.

For the Diverse Knowledge East Asia Fellowship category, priority is given to:

  • applicants from groups historically underrepresented in East Asian Studies (both within the U.S. and globally). Eligible applicants might be from underrepresented minority groups, have experiences overcoming significant challenges and hardship in their path toward graduate school, be first-generation college graduates (this list is not meant to be exhaustive).

Consideration is also given to:

  • work on topics that further new, diverse knowledge about East Asia, especially projects that think critically about and seek to redress racial, ethnic, sexual, social (and other) inequities and injustices.

Applications to the Diverse Knowledge East Asia fellowship category are asked to include an additional, brief (<2 pages) statement of how their research in East Asian studies, their graduate study and career in East Asian studies, and/or their background are impacted by issues of difference, diversity, under-representation, or racial social justice.

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Additional Information

Funding Type

  • Fellowship

Role

  • Student

Program

East Asia Program

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