Overview
The Graduate Fellowships in Peace Studies are offered through the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS), part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies is able to offer fellowships to several graduate students each year. These fellowships are awarded to Cornell PhD graduate students from any field whose dissertation research is relevant to the concerns of the institute.
The fellowships cover in-absentia tuition, a stipend, and health insurance. The competition for these academic year fellowships is usually announced at the beginning of the spring semester, with an application deadline in mid-March for fellowships beginning the next fall.
Examples of topics that have been supported in the past include dual-use technology and weapons proliferation; international humanitarian law and the norms of warfare; the impact of new technologies on peace or conflict; regional security; histories of war or peace; studies of ethnic conflict; international political economy related to security; civil-military relations; terrorism; and post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction.
How to Apply
- Complete an online application. You will be asked to provide a thesis title or area of research interest, as well as a short thesis prospectus. Describe what you intend to do during the duration of your research fellowship, including what written work will be produced as a result (e.g., dissertation chapters or a peer-reviewed article) and whether it might make for a suitable research presentation.
- Request an official Cornell e-transcript from the registrar to be sent to pacs@cornell.edu by the application deadline.
- Save your online application as you go. Once you submit your application you will still be able to edit your submission up until the deadline date.
- Ask your committee chairperson to write a letter of recommendation. Once you submit your fellowship application online, your recommender will be given access to the online system and will receive an automatic email prompting him or her to upload a recommendation letter.
