$55,000 Ernest May History Fellowship
- Organization: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
- Type: Fellowship
- Location: Global
- Deadline: December 1, 2026
- Funding: Fully Funded
Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs offers the Ernest May Fellowship to doctoral candidates and recent PhDs who bring professional history to bear on strategic studies and major questions of international affairs. Fellows spend one academic year in residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts, housed in the Applied History Project and the International Security Program, with historians Fredrik Logevall and Rana Mitter as mentors. **What you get:** - An annual stipend of $55,000 for predoctoral fellows, or $65,000 for postdoctoral and advanced research fellows - Health cover: postdocs who received their PhD in the past five years are benefits-eligible; predoctoral fellows and older PhDs get full or partial reimbursement of health insurance premiums - Access to most Harvard University libraries and facilities - Mentoring from Fredrik Logevall and Rana Mitter, and a place in the Belfer Center fellows cohort - Visa sponsorship for international fellows **What you'll do:** - Spend one academic year in residence at the Belfer Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts - Predoctoral fellows work on, and ideally complete, their dissertation; postdoctoral fellows complete a book, monograph or other significant publication - Give part of your time to collaborative projects arranged by the project director - Join Belfer seminars, conferences and research presentations **Key dates:** - Applications opened October 1, 2026 - Applications close December 1, 2026 - Recommendation letters due December 15, 2026 - Applicants notified by February 15, 2027 - Fellowship runs one academic year, typically September 2027 to June 2028 **More information:** - Questions go to belfer_fellowships@hks.harvard.edu - The application portal works only in Chrome, and every file must be uploaded as a PDF - Your three recommenders are emailed only after you submit, so submit well before December 1 to give them time to meet the December 15 letter deadline - Applications cannot be edited after submission, and fellowship offers cannot be deferred
