Partially Funded Pre & Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School in the USA

Harvard Kennedy School is calling pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scholars, and mid-career professionals to fellowships opportunities; Managing the Atom. This project offers fellowships for ten months within research topics of interest include aspects of nuclear nonproliferation policy, nuclear weapons strategy, arms control, disarmament processes and verification, the future of nuclear energy, regional conflict, and nuclear weapons, security for nuclear weapons, and materials, and other issues of nuclear policy.

If you have been admitted to one of these fellowship programs, you will have:

• Ten-month stipends of $40,000 USD to postdoctoral research fellows.
• Ten-month stipends of $50,000 USD to pre­doctoral research fellows.
• Health Insurance.
• Discounted MBTA passes.
• Office space.
• Provides time and space to interact with an international cohort of colleagues, as well as with faculty, senior fellows, and other experts.

You must follow these criteria:

• Eligible candidates include:
• Current doctoral students, recent recipients of a Ph.D. or equivalent degree, and university faculty members. 
• Candidates from academia, national laboratories, government, and industry. 
• Political scientists, historians, economists, sociologists, legal scholars, and other social scientists as well as engineers, physicists, and others with technical training.
• Applicants for pre-doctoral fellowships must have passed general examinations prior to appointment.
• Fellows are expected to:
• Pursue research with a nuclear policy focus.
• Produce a substantial piece of work completed during the fellowship period.
• Present their research at a seminar open to the public at least once during the fellowship period.
• Participate in MTA activities (meetings, communications efforts, etc.)as appropriate.
• Regularly correspond with MTA staff and senior faculty about research progress and activities.

Please note:

1. The fellows working on topics related to nuclear weapons often receive fellowships that are shared between MTA and the International Security Program.
2. Strongly encourage women and scholars from underrepresented communities to apply.

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About Harvard Kennedy School:

Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs was founded in 1973 by Paul Doty as the Program for Science and International Affairs (PSIA) within Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Its original goal was to revive serious analysis of nuclear dangers and arms control. In 2021, the Belfer Center was named a “Center of Excellence” by the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program.

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