The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.
The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields.
The Foundation will award at least three research grants of $60,000 each to enable the recipients to research and write a book. Within the academic community, this program supports junior or adjunct faculty, research associates, and post-docs who are engaged in policy-relevant research and writing. Within the think tank community, the program supports members of the rising generation of policy thinkers who are focused on U.S. strategic and foreign policy issues.
Applicants must be an employee or affiliate of either an academic institution or a think tank.
Please note that the Fellowship program will only consider single-author book projects. It will not consider collaborative projects (e.g., edited or multi-authored books, conference volumes or reports, or a collection of previously published articles, chapters or essays.)
Procedure
An applicant must submit a research proposal that conforms to the Foundation’s required format.
- Please download the template provided below.
- Proposals should be submitted by email to strategyfellows@srf.org.
- The applicant should also include a curriculum vitae (limited to 3 pages), a detailed budget explaining how the grant would be used, and a work timetable with a start date.
- In addition to the proposal, the applicant may attach one policy-relevant publication to demonstrate his or her analytical capability.
Proposal Evaluation Criteria
- The relevance of the potential analysis and findings to current and future foreign and security policy issues;
- The potential of the project to produce new ideas and insights in the field and to contribute to academic or policy literature on the topic;
- The degree to which research questions and analytical methods are well defined; and
- The degree to which the project will develop valuable new data or information through field work, archival work, or other methods; and the applicant’s publication record.
Eligibility
- An applicant must have a Ph.D. by the time of the deadline, preferably in Political Science, Public Policy, Policy Analysis, International Political Economy, or History.
- The proposal must be submitted by the institution the applicant has an affiliation and be accompanied by a letter from the institution’s representative who is authorized to accept the grant on behalf of the institution.
- The applicant should also explain how he or she meets all of these requirements in a cover letter to the proposal.
- The recipients are likely to be under the age of 40. There is, however, no formal age requirement.
- The Fellowship program will only consider single-author book projects.
- The proposal should be written in a regular 12-point font, with one-inch margins.
The Foundation must receive all Strategy and Policy and Fellows proposals by 5:00 p.m., EDT, June 17, 2016. This deadline will be strictly enforced.
Notifications will be made by November 1, 2016.
The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.
The purpose of the program is to strengthen the U.S. community of scholars and researchers conducting policy analysis in these fields.
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