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The Freeman Prize is awarded annually in the spring to a Cornell graduating senior, or a graduating Master's student. The Freemans established the prize to offer recognition and encouragement to Cornell students actively engaged in promoting peace and to encourage continued work or education in the field of peace studies.

In 1984, the Harrop and Ruth Freeman Prize was established to honor Ruth Freeman, the first woman on the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences. Ruth died in April 1988 and Harrop in October 1993. A bequest from the Freemans ensures that future Cornell students will be recognized for their achievements and continuing work in peace activities.

Eligibility

You must be a Cornell graduating senior or Master's student who has demonstrated a commitment to working for world peace. Preference will be given to students who plan to work in peace-related organizations, but students who are going on to graduate work in the field are also eligible for consideration.

Amount

One or two prizes of $2,500 each.

How to Apply

Apply online:

• Include a brief statement of purpose.
• Identify and ask your advisor or a faculty member who knows your work well to provide a letter of recommendation. They will be asked to submit a letter in the online application.
• Ask the registrar to send an e-transcript for you to pacs@cornell.edu.

Details

Continuing Cornell students who have independently secured a summer internship related to peace studies and conflict resolution, can apply for the Freeman Fellowship to support work at a not-for-profit organization.

The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies will award one or more Freeman Fellowships to encourage Cornell undergraduates to pursue summer work related to peace studies and conflict resolution in an otherwise unpaid position with a not-for-profit organization.

Eligibility

Current Cornell freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, or continuing graduate students interested in funding for their summer internship can apply. Students seeking to fulfill the internship requirement of the Global Health Program are not eligible unless their projects explicitly engage peace and conflict studies.

Amount

A stipend of up to $4,000.

How to Apply

• Identify and secure a summer 2024 internship.
• Apply online.
• Submit a brief statement about your interest in peace studies, and about your chosen summer opportunity, and describe how the internship would benefit you in reaching your long-term goals.
• Ask an advisor or faculty member to supply a letter of recommendation. They will be prompted to upload their recommendation in the online application. (Note: Recommendation letters are due no later than one week past the application deadline.)
• Ask the registrar to send an e-transcript to pacs@cornell.edu.

Details

These fellowships from the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies support graduate students during a semester of international fieldwork.

The fellowships are awarded to Cornell PhD students in any field whose dissertation research is relevant to the concerns of the institute. Up to two students receive awards each year.

Eun A Jo, PhD student

The fellowships cover in-absentia tuition, a stipend, and health insurance for one semester. 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.

Requirements

• You must be a doctoral student at Cornell conducting off-campus research related to peace and conflict studies.
• The fellowship support (external funds) is not intended to substitute for Cornell financial support, and should not lead to a reduction in the fellow’s guaranteed package of support at Cornell.
• You are expected to provide a written output related to your off-campus research—such as one or more dissertation chapters or publications-in-progress—and you may be invited to present on this work in the Reppy Institute seminar series.
• For equally competitive applications, preference will be granted to those submitted by students with a record of active participation in the intellectual and social life of the Institute, particularly as our weekly seminar series.

How to Apply

• Complete an online application. You will be asked to provide a thesis title or area of research interest and 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. The recommended length of the prospectus is approximately 2500 words (about 10 pages double-spaced), but longer or shorter proposals are also acceptable.
• 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.
• 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.