FELLOWSHIPS
The Dubai Initiative Fellowship
The deadline for 2009-2010 fellowship applications has passed. If you would like to apply for 2010-2011, the deadline is January 15, 2010
The Dubai Initiative at the Belfer Center offers pre and post-doctoral research fellowships as well as senior fellowships for one year, with a possibility for renewal. Applications for fellowships are welcome from recent recipients of the Ph.D. or equivalent degree, university faculty members, and employees of government, international, humanitarian, and private research institutions with appropriate professional experience. Applicants for pre and post-doctoral fellowships must have passed general examinations prior to appointment. We welcome applications from political scientists, policy practitioners, lawyers, economists, and those in the natural sciences who are either conducting research about the Middle East on the issues of governance, public policy, administration and management, gender studies, economic policy and political science. We encourage applications from women, minorities, and citizens of all countries.
The Dubai Initiative focuses on research related to the Middle East to complement the interests of the Belfer Center and those of the Dubai School of Government (DSG), and offers fellowships at the Belfer Center as well as opportunities for joint fellowships with the DSG which may require the fellow to spend a certain amount of time in Dubai. We also coordinate DSG fellowship appointments for scholars to be in residence at DSG full time and spend a small portion of their fellowship term at HKS. These are reviewed on a case by case basis. If interested in applying directly to the Dubai School of Government please specify in your application of your intentions with the application directed to the Dubai Initiative. Selection of DSG Fellows will be handled by the offices at the Dubai School of Government.
The Dubai Initiative Fellows are expected to devote a portion of their time on collaborative research, as arranged by the Initiative, with the DSG. Fellowships will be awarded based on specific research deliverables (developing research strategy, contributing to a working paper series, and conducting research on a topic of interest to the Fellow and the Initiative) negotiated between the Initiative and the Dubai School of Government research offices. Research Fellows looking to write a book or in the process of completing a book can receive funding to complete it based on the area of research focus. Pre and post-doctoral research fellows are expected to contribute to both the Initiative as well as the Center's research activities and are encouraged to work on - and ideally complete - their doctoral dissertations.
The Dubai Initiative will accept Fellowship applications for the 2010-2011 beginning in November 2009. Fellowship applicants must indicate that they are applying to The Dubai Initiative. All information related to stipend, application procedures and deadlines are described in detail on the Belfer Center Fellowship page.
Previous Dubai Initiative Research Fellows:
2007-2008
Mohammad Arzaghi. Research focus:industrial organization (advertising industry); urban economics and real estate; agglomeration and knowledge spillovers; immigration
Ant Bozkaya.Research focus:public equity markets and implications for public policy
Marwa Farag. Research focus:health labor market in the Middle East
Haroon Ullah.Research focus:Examining how political organizations affect economic policy and governance in the Middle East.
2006-2007
Gregory Aftandilian. Research focus: The U.S. democracy initiative in the Middle East, focusing on Egypt.
May Al-Dabbagh. Research focus:Gender, politics, and public spaces in the Middle East.
Yasar Jarrar. Research focus:Operations management: including performance measurement, institutional structures, and policy making.
Jeremy Jones. Research focus:Political change and development in the Middle East.
Tally Zingher. Research focus:The effect of the immigrant and migrant labor population on development in Dubai.
2005-2006
Marie Besancon. Research focus:governance in the Sudan, governance measures, gender equality & civil wars.
Juhi Ginger Dagli. Research focus:sustainable development in conflict and post-conflict zones.
Other Fellowships
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government was established to provide full support (tuition, fees, living stipend) to students with financial need from Arab countries. The Fellowship will be awarded through a competitive, merit based process to Master degree admitted applicants.
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