The Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics (JWE) is a University-wide endeavor that promotes research on the connections between freedom, justice, economics, human welfare, and development. The project, housed at and administered by the Weatherhead Center, offers dissertation fellowships to Harvard doctoral students and graduate students in the professional schools whose research is relevant to these themes.

Awards and Benefits

Dissertation fellowships of $21,830 are offered to enable students to disengage from teaching for a year in order to develop or complete their dissertations. This sum may be increased to cover facilities fees and individual health insurance if the student’s school or department will not do so. JWE fellows are generally offered shared office space at the Center.

Subject to the availablility of sufficient funds, the project may award some research grants of $5,000 each as an alternative to the dissertation fellowships. Research grant recipients are chosen from the same general pool as dissertation fellows.

Who is Eligible?

Harvard doctoral or advanced degree candidates in one of the University’s professional schools are eligible to apply. The project invites research proposals pertaining to the ideas of freedom, equality, welfare, rights, and justice, as well as proposals to support empirical studies that bear on these topics. Priority for funding will be given to proposals that bridge at least two of the following three approaches: normative, interdisciplinary, or empirical.

Terms

Recipients of the fellowships must be in residence at Harvard and may not accept any other grants or teaching fellowships during the tenure of the fellowship.

How to Apply

Contact Jessica Barnard for application guidelines. For more information on the JWE program, visit their Web site.

Deadline

February 2009.