Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Graduate Fellowships
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 March for fellowships beginning the following academic year.
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.
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Institute-Supported Books
Listed below are some of the books that have resulted from support to individuals or from workshops, conferences, or other program activities sponsored by the Reppy Institute. In some cases, the institute provided research support to the author or provided assistance with manuscript preparation.
Esman, Milton J. and Shibley Telhami
International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict (1995)
Reppy Institute Announces 2019–20 Fellowship Recipients
Reppy Institute Announces 2019–20 Fellowship Recipients
The Reppy Institute is pleased to announce the recipients of the Graduate Fellowship for 2019-2020: Jonathan Lohnes (history), Cameron Mailhot (government), and Lindsey Pruett (government). The fellowship provides one semester of in-absentia tuition, stipend, and health insurance.
Lohnes will conduct multi-archival research in Turkey, examining the construction of Libya during the early 20th century, a period that created perceptions of a North-South Mediterranean divide that remain influential in the dynamics of migration from North Africa to Europe. Mailhot will undertake fieldwork in Kosovo, with the aim of better understanding the determinants of success and failure in international peacebuilding missions. Pruett will conduct fieldwork in Guinea and Senegal, examining the role of the military in shaping citizen trust in states.
In the photo from left to right: Lohnes, Slayton (Reppy Institute Director), Pruett, Mailhot.
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Karim-Aly Saleh Kassam
International Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies
Additional Information
Program
Role
- Faculty
- PACS Steering Committee
- PACS Minor Field Instructor
- SAP Core Faculty
Contact
Email: ksk28@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-9757
Reppy Institute Occasional Papers Series
The Reppy Institute's first occasional paper was published in 1971 when the Institute was known as the Peace Studies Program. The most recent paper was published by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict studies in 2016. We are pleased to announce that all of the papers (numbers 1-32) are now available electronically from the Cornell University eCommons website. They can now be freely accessed for viewing or downloading.
Other
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Program
Type
- Other
- Occasional Paper
Publication Details
Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS) Archive
One of the awards from the Cornell Library's Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences (DCAPS) helped digitize a portion of the archive of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies and the papers of the late Randall Forsberg. Matthew Evangelista, professor of government, Agnieszka Nimark, a visiting scholar at the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, and Judith Reppy, professor emerita of science and technology studies were instrumental in this project.
Other
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Program
Type
- Other
Publication Details
Publication Year: 2019
Katzenstein Wins Skytte Prize in Political Science
Skytte considered Nobel Prize for political science
The award honors Katzenstein's pioneering work in political economy, global security policy, and European politics.
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Minor Field Faculty
Rebecca Slayton serves as the director of graduate studies of the minor graduate field of peace studies and peace science. The faculty members serving as member of the minor graduate field are:
A Reppy Fellow's Take on Peace and Pandemic in South Korea
Eun A Jo, the Director's Fellow in the Reppy Institute and a PhD candidate in government has several articles in South Korea's The Diplomat.
In "The Human Costs of Peace in Korea" she discusses South Korean President Moon Jae-in as he doubles down on his peace initiative, saying North Korean refugees will face greater challenges in the South.
In "A Democratic Response to Coronavirus: Lessons from South Korea," she claims South Korea's success thus far isn't just due to its government. The public itself has been a crucial part of the story.
In "South Korea's experiment in pandemic surveillance" she says that South Korea is a testing ground for how to balance robust surveillance in the name of public health with individual privacy rights.
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Steering Committee
Steering committee members assist the program director with oversight and management of the Reppy Institute.