Our Weatherhead Research Clusters frequently offer funding opportunities for Harvard graduate students. Linked below are the opportunities currently available. 

• Business and Government Research Grants
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The Weatherhead Center invites applications to its Scholars Program for 2024–2025. This program offers visiting faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and experienced practitioners the opportunity to spend up to one academic year at Harvard.

Visiting Faculty

We will consider faculty in the social sciences from other universities and programs, as well as academics employed by think tanks.

Postdoctoral Fellows

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For Harvard graduate students in doctoral programs only.

The Weatherhead Center awards Dissertation Writing Grants to support advanced Harvard graduate students in doctoral programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences or in the professional schools. The purpose of the Weatherhead Center Dissertation Writing Grant is to release students from one semester of teaching in order to allow them to fully focus on writing their dissertation without the burden of teaching or other employment.

Awards

The Center plans to offer up to eight awards of...

For Harvard and non-Harvard postdoctoral scholars.

A few postdoctoral fellowships are offered each year by the Program on US-Japan Relations for the study of issues in US-Japan relations, Japan's relations with other countries, and domestic issues that bear on Japan’s international behavior.

Awards and Benefits

The stipend is $66,000, and the Postdoctoral Fellows are offered shared office space at the Center and access to Harvard facilities.

Who Is Eligible

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For Harvard and non-Harvard recent PhD recipients and doctoral candidates in the social sciences.

The Academy Scholars Program of The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies identifies and supports outstanding scholars at the start of their academic careers whose work combines excellence in a social science...

For Harvard graduate students only.

Pre-dissertation grants are awarded to doctoral students who are pre-prospectus, have recently passed preliminary exams, and who are exploring or beginning to launch research on a project related to the core research interests of the Center. These interests are broadly defined to encompass research on international, transnational, global, and comparative national issues and may address contemporary or historical topics, including rigorous policy analysis, as well as the study of specific countries and regions outside the...

For Harvard applicants only.

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs offers grants to support workshops and conferences at which graduate students are presenting their research.. The research presented must relate to the interests of the Center, i.e., research focused on international, transnational, global, and comparative issues. Please note that these grants are for students organizing workshops and conferences rather than for students wishing to attend such events.

Grants

Grants generally range from $500 to $2,500, but the Center...

For Harvard graduate students in doctoral programs only.

The Graduate Student Associates (GSA) program is one of the Center's oldest and most valued programs. Directed by Erez Manela, professor of history and Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate, the program welcomes applicants from any of Harvard's graduate and professional schools. The Center currently supports twenty-four doctoral candidates from advanced degree programs that include African and African American studies, anthropology, architecture and urban planning, education, government, history, history of science, law...

For Harvard graduate students in doctoral programs only.

Foreign language study grants are available to students for summer language-study abroad after their G1, G2, or G3 years. Applicants must show the importance of the foreign language for their research, and the grant must be used for an intensive language program lasting at least six weeks.

Awards

The grant provides funding up to $5,000 to be used for tuition, travel costs, and living expenses directly related to the language program. 

Who Is Eligible

Students in...

For Harvard graduate students only.

The Canada Program, funded by the William Lyon Mackenzie King endowment, examines Canadian economic, social, cultural, and political issues in their domestic and international dimensions. The program comprises a seminar speaker series, an annual faculty conference, graduate and undergraduate student affiliates, and two annual visitor opportunities: the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, who chairs the seminar and organizes the faculty conference, and the William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellows...