Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) Fung Global Fellows Program 2025/2026 for early-career scholars worldwide.

Application Deadline: November 15, 2024.

Applications are now open for the 2025/2026 Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) Fung Global Fellows Program.

Eligibility Requirements

1. Early-career scholars will be appointed at the rank of Visiting Research Scholar. Eligible are scholars who received their Ph.D. or equivalent generally no earlier than September 1, 2015.  
2. Early-career applicants must hold a faculty appointment, a professional research appointment, or be established independent scholars outside the United States at the time of application, to which they are expected to return at the conclusion of the fellowship. 
3. Fellowships will be awarded to candidates who have already demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement and exhibit unusual intellectual promise but are still at the beginning of their careers. Criteria for the fellowship include the strength of the candidate’s research projects, the relationship of those projects to the program’s theme, the candidate’s previous scholarly work, the candidate’s ability to contribute to the intellectual life and intellectual exchange of the program, and the candidate’s work experience outside the United States. The selection committee is looking to establish a cohort of fellows whose work represents diverse analytical approaches and disciplinary backgrounds and addresses a wide variety of regions.
4. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Application Requirements

The following items must be submitted by the applicant, in English, by November 15, 2024 (11:59 p.m. ET):

• Submit application to: (link to go live in early September 2024)
• Cover letter (1.5 pages maximum)
• Curriculum Vitae (including publications)
• Research proposal (maximum of 3 pages, single spaced)
• One writing sample (article or book chapter, maximum of 50 pages)
• For those applicants with a faculty appointment or a professional research appointment, an official letter from the applicant’s current employer affirming that, should an offer be made, the applicant would be permitted to accept it and to spend the academic year at Princeton University.  If an independent scholar, then a note stating this status must be uploaded.
• The names and email addresses for three referees, who will be contacted automatically by the online application system with an invitation to upload their letter of recommendation to the system by the application deadline.
  **Please note: all letters of reference should be submitted by your referees before the November 15, 2024 deadline**

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) Fung Global Fellows Program.