Research Funding

Opportunities for Students

Graduate Students | Undergraduate Students

Nurturing the research of graduate and undergraduate students is one of the Weatherhead Center's highest priorities. The Center helps students financially and intellectually by supporting their research and by encouraging and facilitating meaningful collaboration between students and other Center affiliates including faculty, Fellows, and visiting scholars. The Center welcomes applications from students in various disciplines whose research involves important international, transnational, global, or comparative issues, both contemporary and historical. This year, the Center will award some 100 grants, fellowships, and affiliations to undergraduates, graduate students, and recent recipients of a doctoral degree. Weatherhead Center student support enables Harvard students to accomplish original research abroad, become residential members of the Center community, make significant progress on their dissertations, or undertake foreign-language study abroad. In addition, the Center encourages students to participate in its seminars and conferences.

The Weatherhead Center has been fortunate to receive generous financial support for student research. Major funding has been provided to assist the operation of the Center generally and student programs in particular through the generous gifts of Albert and Celia Weatherhead, for whom the Center was renamed in 1998. The Hartley R. Rogers family generously supports undergraduate research in less-developed regions of the world, primarily in Africa and South and Southeast Asia. Additionally, Kenneth I. Juster, the Maurice and Sarah Samuels family, Ford, Dillon, and Huntington endowments allow us to sustain creative and important student research both here and abroad. Weatherhead Center research funds enrich our scholarly community by supporting postdoctoral fellows through the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; the Center for History and Economics; and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.

The Center hopes that Harvard students find the Center to be a significant intellectual resource for expanding and refining their research interests.

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