DEADLINE IS TODAY! Call for Applications for the Berkman Klein Fellowship Program at Harvard University (USD 75 000 stipend)

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Call for Applications for the Berkman Klein Fellowship Program at Harvard University (USD 75 000 stipend)

Target audience: International

Category: Fellowship program

Application Deadline: 9 January 2023 11:59 PM ET

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2023-2024 academic year through our open call. This opportunity is for scholars who wish to spend 2023-2024 in residence in Cambridge, MA as part of the Center’s vibrant community of research and practice, and who seek to engage in collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral exploration of the Internet’s most important issues.

About the Berkman Klein Fellowship Program

“The Berkman Klein Center’s mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.” – BKC Mission Statement

The Berkman Klein Center’s fellowship program provides an opportunity for innovative thinkers and changemakers to come together to hone and share ideas, find camaraderie, and spawn new initiatives. The Fellowship program encourages and supports fellows in an inviting and playful intellectual environment with community activities designed to foster inquiry and risk-taking; to identify and expose common threads across fellows’ individual activities; and to bring fellows into conversation with the students, staff, faculty, and broader community at the Berkman Klein Center.

From their diverse backgrounds and wide-ranging physical and virtual travels, Berkman Klein Center fellows bring fresh ideas, skills, passion, and connections to the Center and our community, and from their time spent in Cambridge, they help build and extend new perspectives and activities back out into their home networks, communities, and fields. Fellows appointed through this open call come into their fellowship program with a personal research agenda, a set of ambitions, and a sense of the public scholarship and community interactions they wish to foster while at the Center.

How to apply:

Application materials that will be uploaded into the system:

Resume or CV
Personal Statement

Writing Sample

Before applying, please carefully read the information about the Berkman Klein Center, the Fellowship Program, eligibility, logistical considerations, resources, and the application; and then apply directly above. Application questions you will be asked to answer in the Application Tracker:

Title of your fellowship proposal

Does your research align with one of the areas of interest outlined in the call for applications? This initial selection will help us to support building connections among fellows and between fellows and ongoing work at BKC, but is of course not meant to constrain future research and exploration.
Is there a Berkman Klein Faculty Director whose research or teaching interests align with yours? If so, please select the Director from the list.
If you selected a particular Faculty Director, please briefly describe how your work and interests connects to that Director’s. [optional]

Current primary affiliation or organization
In what sector do you primarily work?
If from within academia, what will your status be during the 2022-2023 year?

What is your primary discipline?
If you have one, what is your secondary discipline? [optional]
Country of National Origin

Current Country of Residency
In the 2023-2024 year, we expect that fellows will approach their fellowship and its research as a full-time job. How will you fund your fellowship?
If you will have external funding, please describe the source and associated commitments. [optional]

Previous involvement in Berkman Klein Center programs [optional]
Any additional information you’d like to share with us [optional]
Demographic data [optional]

Applicants will submit their resume/C.V., their personal statement, and their work sample as uploads within the Berkman Klein Application Tracker. Uploads need to be PDFs. Applicants should ensure that their names are included on each page of their application materials.