Graduate Students | Undergraduate Students

Support of graduate and undergraduate students is one of the Weatherhead Center’s highest priorities. The Center seeks to support students financially and intellectually by sponsoring their research and by encouraging and facilitating meaningful collaborations 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 or comparative issues, both contemporary and historical. In the coming 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, to become residential members of the Center community, to make significant progress on their dissertations, conduct thesis research abroad, or to 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 that continues to expand its resources available 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. These funds, in addition to continuing gifts from the Maurice and Sarah Samuels family, sustain the work of both graduate and undergraduate students. The Hartley R. Rogers family generously supports undergraduate research in less developed regions of the world, primarily in Africa and South Asia. Additionally, the Ford, Dillon, and Huntington endowments have allowed us to sustain creative and important student research both here and abroad. Weatherhead Center research funds enrich our scholarly community by supporting post-doctoral fellows through the Harvard Academy and the U.S.-Japan Relations programs.

The Center hopes that Harvard students find the Center to be not only an important source of financial support but also an intellectual resource for expanding and refining their research interests. In large measure, the intellectual vibrancy of the Center must be credited to the exciting new research agendas of the people it supports.

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Graduate Students

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