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  Occidental College
 1600 Campus Road,
Coons 109
 Los Angeles, CA
 90041-3314

 Email: careers@oxy.edu
 Phone: 323.259.2623
 Fax: 323.341.4900

Career Development Center

 

INTERNATIONAL
FELLOWSHIPS

The American-Scandinavian Foundation

Ashoka Fellows

Carnegie Junior Fellowship

DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program 2004-2007

DAAD Graduate Fellowships

Dorot Fellowship

Foreign Language/ Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships

Scholars Program

Indicorps Fellowship

Institute for International Public Policy

Luce Scholars Program

Princeton-in-Africa Fellowships

Princeton University Graduate School Fellowships

Public Policy Fellowship Program

The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award

Sibley Fellowship in French Studies

Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship

Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship

United Negro College Fund

 

The American-Scandinavian Foundation
http://www.amscan.org/fellowship.html

Deadline: November 1, 2008
During the past 92 years, over 3,700 fellowships and grants for use in research in Scandinavia have been given to Americans and Scandinavians engaged in educational exchange projects.

 

Ashoka Fellows
Post grad
http://www.ashoka.org/support/types
Ashoka Fellows is an international nonprofit program that supports social entrepreneurs in Asia, Latin America, Africa and East Central Europe. Ashoka Fellows focus their talents on serving the public good by creating projects with a broad social impact on issues such as health, environment, education, legal rights, women, children and development. The main selection criteria is to have a big, new idea!

 

Carnegie Junior Fellowship
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Deadline: January 15, 2008
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/about/index.cfm?fa=jrFellows
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is an educational organization in Washington, D.C., which conducts programs of research, discussion, publication, and education in international relations and U.S. foreign policy. The Junior Fellows Program at the Carnegie Endowment is designed to provide substantive work experience for graduates of participating universities who have a serious career interest in the area of international affairs.
Eight to ten graduating seniors/recent alumni are hired annually to work at the Endowment on a full-time basis for a period of one year. Junior Fellows are assigned to ongoing projects at the Endowment, examining such topics as nuclear non-proliferation, democracy building, international economics, migration and Russian/Eurasian issues. Carnegie Junior Fellows receive a monthly salary and benefits and are responsible for their own housing. All fellowships begin on August 1st.
 

DAAD/AICGS Research Fellowship Program 2004-2007
The American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
Deadline: April 2007. Check back for more info.

Pre and Post-Doc
http://www.aicgs.org/fellowships/daadfellowship.aspx
The AICGS/DAAD fellowship is funded by a generous grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and is designed to bring scholars and specialists working on Germany, Europe and/or transatlantic relations to AICGS for stays of one to three months. Fellows work on topics that address one or more of the Institute's research emphases in 2002: transatlantic economic relations; enlargement of the European Union; security issues linking the United States, Germany and Russia; the evolutuion of the "New Economy" in the United States and Germany; migration policy; and cultural or value conflicts between America and Germany/Europe.

 

DAAD Graduate Fellowships

Study in Germany

Deadline: November 15, 2007.

Post Grad

http://www.daad.org/?p=50410

Graduate students in social sciences, hard sciences, or in professional areas such as law, business, and medicine have particular needs for their research and study in Germany. We can help you master the German language, complete a research project in Germany, or expand your education with a stay at a German university. See the fellowship opportunities below.

 

Dorot Fellowship
Israel
Deadline: Application will be available January 11, 2008.
http://www.dorot.org
The Dorot Fellowship in Israel (DFI) is a full-year Fellowship in Israel that seeks to foster a knowledgeable and impassioned American Jewish leadership for the 21st Century. The Fellowship seeks to provide Fellows with opportunities for development in the following areas: Understanding of issues vital to the Jewish community in Israel, North America and throughout the world; Sophisticated understanding of Israeli society; Personal growth; Jewish studies; Hebrew competence; Relations with Israelis and with future American Jewish leaders.
 

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships
Deadline: November 2, 2007
Post grad
http://kellogg.nd.edu/vfellowships/
The fellowships promote the study or use of foreign languages and international or area studies. Recipients must be full-time graduate students. Summer fellowships fund only intensive language training in the U.S. or abroad. The languages for which fellowships are awarded are Portuguese, Spanish (in some cases), and any native language to be found in South and Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. The US Department of Education expects FLAS fellowship recipients to receive full credit for all study conducted while holding a FLAS. Priority will be given to students who may be more likely to pursue government service and the study of a less-commonly taught language (e.g., Portuguese and native languages).

 

Indicorps Fellowship
India
Deadline: October 15, 2008
http://apply.indicorps.org/
The Indicorps fellowship is a structured, competitive public service program for people of Indian origin who have a university degree or five-years equivalent work experience. Indicorps fellowships are designed to be one-of-a-kind transformational experiences, emphasizing both personal growth and international development. Fellows are given individual responsibility to execute and complete projects that are created/defined in partnership with local developmental experts. Interested individuals apply specifically to projects of their interest. The limits of their contribution are defined only by the fellows' creativity, passion, and motivation.

 

Institute for International Public Policy

Undergrad - sophomore, Post Grad

Deadline: March 2008.
http://www.uncfsp.org/IIPPApplication.pdf
The IIPP Fellowship program provides students with specially designed education and training experiences critical to entry and advancement in international affairs careers. Students are recruited from across the nation and apply as sophomores to participate in a multi-year sequence of summer policy institutes, study abroad, intensive language training, internships, and graduate study, complemented by career development services along the way. UNCFSP is aided in the student recruitment effort by its institutional partners and distinguished selection panels comprised of practitioners, academics, graduate school admissions directors, foundation executives, and IIPP alumni.

 

Luce Scholars Program
The Henry Luce Foundation
Deadline: Nominations are received by the Foundation the first Monday in December
http://www.hluce.org/lsprogram.aspx
The Luce Scholars Program provides stipends and internships for fifteen young Americans to live and work in Asia each year. Dating from 1974, the program's purpose is to increase awareness of Asia among future leaders in American society.
Those who already have significant experience in Asia or Asian studies are not eligible for the Luce Scholars Program. Candidates must be American citizens who have received at least a bachelors degree and are no more than 29 years old on September 1 of the year they enter the program. Nominees should have a record of high achievement, outstanding leadership ability, and a clearly defined career interest with evidence of potential for professional accomplishment.
Luce Scholar candidates are nominated by sixty-seven colleges and universities. Applications are submitted by eligible institutions in early December. The Luce Foundation cannot accept applications submitted directly to the foundation.

 

Princeton-in-Africa Fellowships
Deadline: December 2007. Check back for most info.
Undergrad/Post Grad
http://www.princeton.edu/piaf/index_files/applicants.htm
Princeton-in-Africa works with established organizations to solicit and screen applicants. Fellows are matched with partner organizations based on their capabilities and, where appropriate, their technical knowledge. Placements may last from two to twenty-four months. While financial arrangements vary, Princeton-in-Africa is committed to offer fellowships on a need blind basis. The Class of 1969 Community Service Fund was instrumental in funding some of Princeton-in-Africa’s early fellowships. Currently, we rely on the generosity of numerous individuals, corporations and foundations for our funding.

 

Princeton University Graduate School Fellowships – Study Abroad
Princeton, NJ
Various Deadlines
http://gradschool.princeton.edu/financial/fellowships/studyabroad/
Fellowships available in Belgium, Germany, France, Ireland, Japan, and optional country opportunities.

 

Public Policy Fellowship Program
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Summer Internship Program
Deadline: March 2008. Check back for more details.
Post grad
http://www.chci.org/chciyouth/fellowship/fellowship.htm
Every year, the nine-month Fellowship Program (late August to late May) offers up to 20 talented Latinos from across the country the opportunity to gain hands-on experience at the national level in the public policy area of their choice with the General Public Policy Fellowship. Fellows have the opportunity to work in such areas as international affairs, economic development, education policy, housing, or local government. CHCI also aims to develop leaders in areas of health and corporate America with the Sodexho, Inc. Public Health Fellowship and the Corporate Fellowship (placement must be in a public affairs office of a corporation).

 

The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
Deadline: February 15, 2008
Post grad
http://www.nationalgridus.com/masselectric/about_us/award.asp 
The Samuel Huntington Public Service Award provides an annual stipend of $10,000 for a graduating college senior to pursue public service anywhere in the world. This allows recipients to engage in a meaningful public service activity for one year before proceeding on to graduate school or a career.

 

Sibley Fellowship in French Studies
Phi Beta Kappa
Deadline: January 15, 2008
http://staging.pbk.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Scholarships_and_Awards 
In 1934 Miss Isabelle Stone left to the Phi Beta Kappa Society a bequest to establish a fellowship for women scholars. The conditions of the Fellowship were established by the bequest. Miss Stone was a Durant scholar at Wellesley College. After election to Phi Beta Kappa and graduation in 1905, she went to Cornell University for graduate work, and received a Ph.D. degree in 1908. She was then awarded the Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship and spent the next year in Europe, principally in Greece, where she continued her study of Greek history and language. She spent the following year teaching in the South, but was obliged to resign her position because of her father's illness.

Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Deadline: February 2008. Check back for more info.
www.woodrow.org
The fellowship award includes tuition, room, board, and mandatory fees during the junior and senior years of college and during the first year of graduate study with reimbursement for books and one round-trip travel. The Fellow must commit to pursuing a graduate degree in international studies at one of the graduate schools identified by the WWNFF. Participating graduate schools provide financial support in the second year of graduate study based on need. Fellows meet annually in Washington, DC for a program orientation.

 

Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Deadline: February 5, 2008
http://www.woodrow.org/public-policy/graduate.php
The Graduate FAF Program provides fellowship funding to participants as they are prepared academically and professionally to enter the United States Department of State Foreign Service. Women, members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service, and students with financial need are encouraged to apply.

 

United Negro College Fund
Deadline: March 15, 2008
http://www.uncf.org/forstudents/scholarship.asp
The IIPP Fellowship program provides students with specially designed education and training experiences critical to entry and advancement in international affairs careers. Students are recruited from across the nation and apply as sophomores to participate in a multi-year sequence of summer policy institutes, study abroad, intensive language training, internships, and graduate study, complemented by career development services along the way. UNCFSP is aided in the student recruitment effort by its institutional partners and distinguished selection panels comprised of practitioners, academics, graduate school admissions directors, foundation executives, and IIPP alumni.

 

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