The
Harriman Institute at Columbia University
Undergraduate Fellowship Program
2005-6 (First Round)
Program
description: The Harriman Institute at Columbia University
is continuing its undergraduate fellowship program, which is open to Barnard
College, Columbia College, and General Studies students. This program is designed to provide research
support on a competitive basis to seniors in the 2005/6 academic year who have
a serious interest in the post-Soviet and/or East-Central European region. It is expected that students will use the
fellowship to assist them in researching and writing the senior thesis, or to
complete an equivalent major research project.
Successful
candidates will receive up to $2500 to reimburse their field research expenses in
the region, with the expectation that the research will be conducted either
over the 2005 summer break, or the 2005/6 winter break. Fellows will have the opportunity to attend
all Harriman Institute events for the academic year. They will present their own research at a
public seminar to be held in April 2006.
Application
procedure:
Candidates must submit a 2- to 3-page research proposal, a budget of projected
expenses, a résumé, an official transcript, and one confidential letter of
recommendation (on official letterhead, with the recommender’s signature across
the seal of the envelope) from a faculty member who is familiar with the
student’s research plans. The complete
application packet with all items enclosed should be received by Apr. 15,
2005, and should be addressed to:
Prof.
Kimberly Marten
Department
of Political Science
Barnard
College
3009
Broadway
New
York, NY 10027-6598
The
packet can also be hand-delivered to Prof. Marten’s mailbox on the 4th
floor of Lehman Hall on the Barnard campus (the Barnard library building). Emailed applications will not be accepted.
The proposal should describe, in as much detail as possible, what question the student’s research will attempt to answer, why the question is significant, why field research is necessary to answer the question, and how the student plans to go about performing the field research required. The evaluation criteria used by the committee will include: (1) the coherence and logic of the proposal itself; (2) the likelihood that the student will be able to perform the research successfully, given the student’s skill-set and contacts; (3) the student’s commitment to study of the region, as demonstrated by previous coursework or other experience; and (4) the student’s academic achievement record.
Successful candidates will be notified in early May 2005.