National Fellowship Program Grant

National Fellowship Program Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Jefferson Scholars Foundation
Last Updated: February 02, 2025

Summary

The National Fellowship Program, offered by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, invites Ph.D. candidates across various disciplines to apply. The program emphasizes the importance of scholarly leadership and aims to foster intellectual collaboration. Eligible candidates must be nearing completion of their dissertation or have a detailed two-year plan. The fellowship includes mentorship, networking opportunities, and participation in conferences, encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue and professional growth.

Overview

NOTE: The deadline for applications and letters of recommendation to the 2025-26 National Fellowship has been extended to February 3, 2025. We will allow additional time through February 7, 2025 for letters of recommendation to be submitted. No application will be read until all materials, including letters of recommendation, have been received. National Fellowship Program The Jefferson Scholars Foundation encourages applicants from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, history, political science, policy studies, law, political economy, communications and media, and sociology. Applicants will be judged on the quality of their scholarship, their promise for intellectual and professional leadership as a rising junior scholar, their potential to shed new light upon contemporary developments in American politics, foreign policy, and America and the World.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. An applicant must be a Ph.D. candidate who is either expecting to complete his or her dissertation by the conclusion of the Fellowship year or has outlined a detailed and workable two-year write-up plan that is persuasively documented. This is not a post-doctoral fellowship. Non-U.S. citizens are eligible to apply. Each Fellow will work with a Mentor to assemble a network of scholars focused on an area of her/his research expertise as it engages significant policy-facing questions. A meeting at U.Va., or the Hagley for the Galambos Fellow in the fall, will set the agenda for year-long collaboration and recruitment of additional network members, who may subsequently meet for virtual reading groups, workshops, conference panels, symposia, manuscript workshops, or similarly focused activities. Expenses for network events and activities are paid for by a dedicated budget for each Fellow. Focused on-campus residential visits of up to two weeks at the Jefferson Scholars Foundation are required for all Fellows—with the exception of Galambos Fellows, who hold their residencies at the Hagley Library during the academic year but may also wish to spend up to two weeks at the Foundation for the purposes of building out their scholarly networks. All Fellows will participate in a fall conference designed to host discussions about drafted portions of Fellow’s dissertation projects, design plans to build a scholarly network, and establish longer-term goals for scholarly and professional development. The spring conference is designed to workshop the Fellows’ scholarly research in collaboration with a gathering of junior and senior scholars, in anticipation of potential publication outcomes. A workshop with a renowned university press editor concludes each spring conference. Regardless of residency, Fellows are expected to participate in and contribute to the interdisciplinary community of the Jefferson Scholars Foundation.