The Wilson Center Pakistan Fellowship – Apply by February 1, 2024.

Wilson Center Pakistan Fellowship

The competition for the next Wilson Center Pakistan Fellow is currently open.

The application deadline is February 1, 2024.

Thank you for your interest in the Wilson Center Pakistan Fellowship, a nine-month residential fellowship focused on public policy issues in Pakistan and US-Pakistan relations. The Wilson Center Pakistan Fellow may come from academia, journalism, the business or policy worlds, or any category of thought leader or public intellectual. The fellow will conduct research and write in her/his areas of interest (which must focus on public policy issues in Pakistan and/or US-Pakistan relations), publish research through the Wilson Center and beyond, and will have the opportunity to interact with policymakers and thought leaders in Washington. The fellow will also contribute substantively to the Wilson Center’s Pakistan programming and research. Upon completion of the fellowship, the fellow will be expected to have finished a substantive research product resulting in a monograph, a series of articles, or a book.

Eligibility

This competition is open to people from, and based in, Pakistan. Applications will be accepted from individuals in academia, business, journalism, government, law, and related professions. Candidates must be currently pursuing research on key public policy issues facing Pakistan and/or US-Pakistan relations—research designed to bridge the gap between the academic and the policymaking worlds.

The Wilson Center typically expects its visiting fellows to possess the terminal degree in their field. For academics, such as university professors, the terminal degree generally means a PhD But other professions have different terminal degrees; for journalists or business people, it could well be a bachelor’s degree. In exceptional cases, the Wilson Center will waive the terminal degree requirement for highly qualified and unusually talented applicants.

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Applicants must also have at least eight years of professional or research experience. Preference will be given to applicants who have published scholarly books or substantial articles in academic or policy-related journals or newspapers, and whose work demonstrates original thinking on policy-oriented issues of interest to Pakistan and the United States.

Applicants must be completely fluent in both written and spoken English.

Selection Process

All applications that meet the eligibility requirements will be evaluated by a fellowship review committee overseen by the Wilson Center.

The basic criteria for selection are:

The Application

All applications must be completed online—the Wilson Center will not accept materials submitted via email (with the exception of letters of reference) or by other means. A complete fellowship application form must be submitted online in English, and will include the following:

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