Description: Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations promoting social justice in their communities. Fellows take on substantive roles that draw on the skills and capacities honed in the course of earning the humanities PhD, including advanced communication, research, project management, and creative problem solving.
Award: 24-month fellowship beginning in September 2022; $62,500 stipend in year one and $65,000 in year two, plus health insurance and professional development funding
Eligibility: Applicants must have a Ph.D. that was/will be formally conferred between Sept. 1, 2017 and Sept. 1, 2022. Applicant’s PhD may be in any field in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US for the duration of the fellowship term.
Deadline: 9 pm EDT, March 28, 2022