School of Social Science Fellowship Award

Website: www.sss.ias.edu/applications
Application deadline: November 15, 2008

2009-2010 Fellowship Award Announcement

Each year, the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, invites up to twenty scholars to be in residence for the full academic year to pursue their own research.  The School welcomes applications in economics, political science, law, psychology, sociology and anthropology.  It encourages social scientific work with a historical and humanistic bent and also entertains applications in history, philosophy, literary criticism, literature and linguistics.  Applicants must have a Ph.D. at time of application.  Each year there is a general thematic focus that provides common ground for roughly half the scholars;  for 2009-2010 the focus will be Education, Schools, and the State.  The application deadline is November 15, 2008.  Applications must be submitted through the Institute's online application system, which can be found, along with more information, at www.sss.ias.edu/applications.

Contact information:
Institute for Advanced Study
School for Social Science
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 734-8000