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. In addition, the Center encourages students to participate in its seminars and conferences.
The Center welcomes applications from students in various disciplines whose research involves important international, transnational, global, and comparative national issues that may address contemporary or historical topics, including rigorous policy analysis, as well as the study of specific countries and regions outside the United States. This year, the Center will award some one hundred grants, fellowships, and affiliations to undergraduates, graduate students, and recent recipients of doctoral degrees. 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.
The Weatherhead Center has been fortunate to receive financial support for student research. The generous gifts of Albert and Celia Weatherhead, for whom the Center was renamed in 1998, assist the operation of the Center generally and student programs in particular. 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, the Kenneth I. Juster, Maurice and Sarah Samuels Family, Ford, Dillon, and Huntington endowments allow us to sustain creative and important student research both on campus 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 scholarly community hopes that Harvard students and young scholars find the Center to be a significant intellectual resource for expanding and refining their research interests.
Additional Information:
- WCFIA Fellowship Application FAQs [PDF: 61KB]
Graduate Students
- Canada Program Fellowships for Dissertation Research
- Dissertation Completion Grants for Weatherhead Center Graduate Student Associates
- Foreign Language Study Grants
- Graduate Research Fellowships in Global History
- Graduate Student Associates Program
- Grants for Graduate Student Conferences
- Huntington Prize
- Pre- and Mid-dissertation Grants
- Program on Global Society and Security Fellowship
- The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Graduate Fellows Program
- The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Scholars Program
- U.S.-Japan Program Advanced Research Fellowships
- Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series
Undergraduate Students
- Canada Program Undergraduate Thesis Research Grants
- Grants for Independent Projects for Undergraduates
- Harvard International Relations Council (IRC)
- Kenneth I. Juster Fellowships for Undergraduate Research and Travel
- Student Conference at the United States Military Academy at West Point (SCUSA)
- Student Conference at the United States Naval Academy (NAFAC)
- Study Groups
- Summer Travel Grants and the Undergraduate Associates Program
- Undergraduate Research Assistants to Faculty Associates and Harvard Academy Scholars
- Undergraduate Research Assistants to Fellows
- Undergraduate Research Workshops and Conference