Fellows Program
The Fellows Program at the Institute is dedicated to forming young scholars as they pursue the highest level of scholarship on the most important questions facing the late modern era. Our approach is distinctive because we believe this formation requires a complex intellectual community, rather than mere time and space for individual scholarly efforts.
Precisely because the world we live in and the problems we face are so novel and complex, no one academic field can fully grasp their nature and intricacy. For this reason, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is interdisciplinary in its approach. We find that the social sciences provide the empirical grounding that is so often missing in the humanities, and the humanities provide the coherence and cohesiveness that are typically missing from the social sciences.
Our intellectual community, therefore, is a rich and dynamic mix of historians, philosophers, sociologists, ethicists, political scientists, theologians, legal scholars and literary critics, among others, bringing the various analytical and interpretive tools of their trade to common questions and common problems. Consequently, our mission to understand contemporary cultural change and its consequences is carried out in the rare context of a thriving community in which disciplines and generations interact and collaborate.
Doctoral Fellowships
The Doctoral Fellowship supports students through the research and writing stages of their dissertations. Fellowships are awarded on the basis of demonstrated academic promise and how closely their scholarly interests fit with the Institute’s research priorities. Doctoral fellows must attend and participate in Institute events.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Institute Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to recent PhDs whose research directly contributes to the research priorities of the Institute. These fellowships will, in most cases, be directly linked to specific Institute Colloquies. The tenure of an Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship is two years. To be eligible for a Postdoctoral Fellowship, applicants must have successfully defended their dissertations a maximum of five years prior to the start of the academic year to which the fellowship applies.