Carnegie Fellowship
Each year the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers up to ten one-year internships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year. They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 200 colleges and universities. Carnegie Junior fellows will assist with research and editing for Carnegie senior associates in areas including nuclear nonproliferation, arms control, democracy, economic reform, immigration, and regional studies. Junior fellows are paid a monthly salary and receive health insurance.
The Junior Fellows program is highly competitive and a remarkable opportunity for students with substantial coursework perhaps also including research in international relations and regional and language study. The Endowment has an additional interest in students with backgrounds in economics, development studies, globalization and related issues. The Endowment includes programs of interest to students in the social justice movement. Past winners have gone on to academic, diplomatic and policy careers. Others have also won further prestigious fellowships such as the Rhodes and Marshall, served in the Peace Corps or attended law school.
Eligibility and Qualifications
Graduating seniors and graduated students who are not enrolled elsewhere are eligible. Applicants do not need to be U.S. citizens; they must, however, be eligible to work in the United States.
Applicants must have strong academic qualifications and interests that match those of the Carnegie Endowment. Interesting related life experience is helpful, whether work, research, internships or service which reflect both diligence and a commitment to world service.
Application Procedures and Selection Criteria
The center of the Carnegie Junior Fellows application is the essay. An essay written specifically for the competition will most likely be more successful than a previously written academic paper tweaked to fit. It needs to be “an original piece or thought.” Essays are no more than three pages. The topics change each year. Applicants can choose from among five topics.
In addition, an applicant must provide a resume, two letters of recommendation (strongly recommended thatat least one be from a member of the faculty in the applicant’s major field), and official transcripts.
Here are the application files for 2010:
Timeframe
Application materials will be available from Carnegie and CURF around the second week of October. The essay questions change every year. Applications, including all supporting materials — transcripts and letters of recommendation — are due to CURF January 5, 2009. A CURF committee will narrow the applicant pool to select two Penn nominees by January 15. The Carnegie Endowment will invite a selected number of finalists for an interview and select the winners in mid-April. Junior Fellows begin their fellowship year on August 1st.
Contact
Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
The ARCH, 3601 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6224
Phone: 215-746-6488
Fax: 215-573-4869