Deadline- 15 September 2013
All eligible applicants are invited to submit applications for Carnegie Centennial Fellowship Program in Support of Visiting Scholars in the field of Social Science. Th e objective of this program is to focus on youth and gender in the context of the Arab Spring.
Topics covered-
- youth unemployment and school-to-work transitions
- transitions to adulthood, including transitions through schooling, work, marriage and sexuality
- inequality of opportunity in education and labor markets
- informality, poverty, social protection, and job quality
- migration and displacement
- obstacles to youth and women’s employment and ways to overcome them
- youth social movements and mobilization
- youth civic and political engagement
- role of youth and youth groups in transitions to democracy
Benefits-
The fellowship will cover economy class round-trip air fare and will provide the visiting scholar with a monthly stipend to cover expenses while in residence in Minnesota.
Documents required-
- a cover letter
- a detailed curriculum vitae
- a sample of written work
Eligibility & criteria-
Visiting scholars must be a member of the staff of a university situated in the Arab World and be in a social science or related discipline and is working in areas relating to the above research theme and sub-themes. The ideal candidate is a junior faculty member who has obtained his/her PhD in the past five years, but pre-doctoral candidates and ones with more than five years since the PhD will also be considered.
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