Funded Fellowship Program in Humanistic Social Sciences from Columbia Global Centers in Amman

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Columbia Global Centers in Amman, Jordan has established a 12-month fellowship program to support emerging displaced scholars working in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. The goal of the program is to create opportunities for scholars to reintegrate into academia and resume their academic pursuits.

About The Fellowship: 

Fellows will receive a stipend of $25,000 USD and individual health insurance for the duration of the 12-month fellowship. They will be based at Columbia’s Global Center in Amman and will be provided with office space, access to meeting rooms and conference facilities, as well as IT equipment (including a computer device, internet connection, printer, scanner, phone line, and IT technical support). Fellows will have access to Columbia University online library resources as well as online courses at Columbia University and other platforms. As part of the program, Fellows will be matched with a relevant faculty member at Columbia University who will guide them throughout the year. Fellows are expected to be free of their regular commitments so that they may devote themselves to the work outlined in their proposal. Please note that Fellows are responsible for their housing costs. We will offer travel and visa assistance where possible. Fellows are expected to make a public presentation at the end of their fellowship of the work they have produced during the fellowship year.

Eligibility Criteria:

This Fellowship program is intended primarily for displaced scholars. Applications from individuals who have been in exile will also be considered. Applicants must demonstrate an intermediate degree of English language proficiency, as a minimum, to be considered for the Fellowship program. 

Eligible candidates are scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who have been forcibly uprooted from their home countries and respected academic institutions. They could be graduate students who have had their education disrupted or post-doctoral scholars in the early stages of their careers. Creative writers, artists, and curators may also apply.

Candidates whose work is based in the humanities, broadly construed, are eligible to apply for the fellowship program. This generally includes any discipline that studies the human experience, such as literature, linguistics, philosophy, archaeology, cultural heritage and historical preservation, museum studies, religious studies, musicology, history, and criticism and theory of the arts. Social sciences that have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods—such as anthropology, sociology, gender and ethnic studies—will also be considered.

Application Requirement: 

Applicants must submit a dossier that includes the following materials:

• A curriculum vitae that includes academic credentials and professional experience;
• A personal statement (two pages) which includes motivation for applying to this program, as well as a description of and reason for displacement. The statement should describe the applicant’s intellectual trajectory, career goals, and teaching philosophy;
• A proposal describing the field of interest, academic work that will be undertaken during the 12- month fellowship and beyond, and broader potential significance of the applicant’s work.
• One to two writing samples/publications;
• Letter of recommendation from an academic colleague who is familiar with the applicant’s previous work;
• Copies of academic transcripts.

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