Political Essay Grant of $10,000 from Perry World House

The Perry World House Center awards grants for distinguished essay on any topic related to international issues that draw on original academic research and intend to influence policy debates. Scholars should submit original essays between 4,000 and 5,000 words, based on their academic scholarship.

Prizes will be selected based on their overall excellence and alignment with Perry World House’s two research themes, which are:

• Global Shifts: Migration, Urbanization, and Climate Change. The Global Shifts research theme examines these phenomena, highlights the specific challenges their intersections produce, and charts a path that allows for the best global policy responses to emerge.
• The Future of the Global Order: Power, Technology, and Governance. The Future of the Global Order theme examines implications of changing global power dynamics, impacts of new technologies, and contributions of governance institutions for the future of international cooperation.

• Each winner will receive an award of $10,000 from Perry World House.
• Perry World House encourages prize winners to use the prize to advance their academic research and policy impact.
• Each prize winner will also have her/his/their essay published by Foreign Affairs online and/or in print.

• Eligibility is open to emerging scholars from around the world, including scholars at the University of Pennsylvania.
• This includes junior faculty, postdocs, and advanced Ph.D. candidates.
• Other scholars are eligible to apply if they completed the relevant terminal degree in their field of study in 2015 or after.
• One submission per person. Submissions can be co-authored. All co-authors must satisfy the eligibility requirements. If a co-authored submission receives the prize, the authors will split the award equally.

Selection Criteria:

Submissions will be judged on policy relevance, writing quality, the importance of the policy challenge, the feasibility of its policy recommendations, and the quality of the underlying academic scholarship.

About Perry World House:

Perry World House is a center for scholarly inquiry, teaching, research, international exchange, policy engagement, and public outreach on pressing global issues. Perry World House’s mission is to bring the academic knowledge of the University of Pennsylvania to bear on some of the world’s most pressing global policy challenges, and to foster international policy engagement within and beyond the Penn community.

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