Fellowships

The Asia Fellows program allows individuals the freedom to pursue independent research projects, with the help of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy School, along with other Harvard resources.

The Ash Center’s China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers two postdoctoral fellowships in the field of contemporary Chinese public policy to recent Ph.D.s of exceptional promise.

Doctoral students serve as Democracy Doctoral Fellows for varying tenures throughout the academic year at the Ash Center. The Center supports academic scholarship focused on its core research areas, including innovations in public participation and political participation in non-democracies.

The Ash Center’s Democracy Fellowships program aims to support doctoral and postdoctoral scholars in research related to democratic governance. This two-year academic fellowship is for students with completed dissertations in the fields of political theory, political philosophy, sociology, political science, law, or history.

Faculty, doctoral, and postdoctoral students serve as Democracy Visiting Fellows for varying tenures throughout the academic year at the Ash Center. The Center supports academic scholarship focused on its core research areas, including innovations in public participation and political participation in non-democracies.

The Program on Crisis Leadership (PCL) offers fellowships to academics and senior practitioners conducting research on issues relating to emergency preparedness, crisis response, and disaster recovery. Individuals are invited to apply for the fellowships by program faculty.

The Technology and Democracy Fellowship is part of an Ash Center initiative to explore technology’s role in improving democratic governance—with a focus on connecting to practice and on helping Harvard Kennedy School students develop crucial technology skills.

The US-Asia Relations Fellowship Program, housed at the Ash Center and directed by S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations Arne Westad, aims to increase the interaction between HKS scholars and opinion leaders in Asia on matters that are crucial to define what the world will be like in 10 or 20 years from now. 

Over the past half generation, it has become clear that many of the decisions that will affect our common future will be made in Asia. This is not just true for economic and business issues. Increasingly, it is also true for decisions that affect global interests in terms of security, health, migration, democratization, and the environment.This initiative not only seeks concentrate on fields of academic investigation but also to engage leaders in other walks of life: politicians, business leaders, public officials, activists, writers, and members of the cultural arts community. We hope to engage with individuals who will have a direct and specific influence on key decisions that will be made in the leading countries in Asia.

Supported by the Ash Center and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, fellowships were awarded to Arab social scientists working on the region’s most pressing public problems – particularly in the realms of education, health, social welfare, and political and economic reform. 

The Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Program offered fellowships to support Indonesian students and scholars participating in degree courses and executive education programs at Harvard or conducting research on public policy in Indonesia.

The Initiative on History and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, based at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, awarded up to three non-stipendiary doctoral fellowships to outstanding doctoral students who were engaged in cutting-edge historical research that is informed by, or seeks to illuminate, issues of contemporary public policy.

The Initiative on History and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, based at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, awarded post-doctoral fellowships to an outstanding junior scholars who were engaged in cutting-edge historical research that is informed by, or seeks to influence, contemporary public policy.
 

Established in 1998, the New World Fellows Program worked to encourage the next generation of prominent Chinese leaders to develop their professional skills and interact with international leaders of similar seniority and experience, as well as distinguished Harvard faculty, before returning to their positions of responsibility in the Chinese government.