The Columbia Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program is fully funded and provides comprehensive support to enable fellows to focus on their research and academic development. Selected fellows receive a monthly stipend to cover living expenses during the fellowship period, as well as research support funding to facilitate scholarly work, field research, and academic outputs.

Fellows benefit from access to Columbia University’s global academic network, mentorship from established scholars, opportunities to present their work publicly, and participation in workshops, seminars, and collaborative research activities. The fellowship also offers a critical platform for displaced scholars to rebuild professional networks, enhance academic visibility, and contribute meaningfully to global scholarly conversations.

Applicants must be forcibly displaced scholars, including individuals with refugee status or those who have been compelled to leave their home country or academic institution due to conflict, political instability, or persecution. The program specifically targets scholars whose academic careers have been interrupted and who require institutional support to continue their research and intellectual engagement.

Eligible applicants must be emerging scholars in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. This includes researchers, academics, writers, artists, curators, and interdisciplinary scholars whose work is grounded in humanistic inquiry. Applicants are generally expected to hold a PhD in a relevant field; however, in exceptional cases, candidates who were on track to complete a PhD or who hold a non-terminal Master’s degree may be considered.

Applicants must have earned their highest academic degree within the past 12 years, with flexibility provided to account for career interruptions caused by displacement or other exceptional circumstances. Candidates must also demonstrate at least an intermediate level of English proficiency, as the fellowship’s academic activities and engagements are conducted in English.

Applicants are required to be based in the region of the Columbia Global Center to which they apply and must be able to participate in person at the host center for the duration of the fellowship, with a minimum in-person engagement of six months if full-time residence is not possible.

This opportunity is open Globally

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