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Each year, the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies provides a select cohort of fellows with unique opportunities for professional networking and development in the field of peace and conflict studies.

Evangelista Fellows participate in the Institute’s weekly public seminars and enjoy additional opportunities such as meeting with distinguished scholars in small groups and hosting the visit of scholars of their choosing. The Institute provides financial and administrative resources for these collective activities as well as a small ($350) research stipend for each Fellow. Current and former fellows also receive priority when applying for additional funding opportunities, such as the Institute’s Graduate Fellowship.

Each cohort of Evangelista Fellows is interdisciplinary, with interests spanning various issues, such as nuclear arms control and disarmament, climate change and conflict, governance of emerging technologies, human rights, race, and gender. Fellows are appointed for one year and may be renewed for subsequent years.

Eligibility

Masters, doctoral, and law students, including students beginning in fall 2026.

Amount

$350 research stipend.

Details

Conduct your international field research with a $10,000 award to support fieldwork expenses.

The Einaudi Center’s Amit Bhatia ’01 Global PhD Research Awards fund international fieldwork to help Cornell students complete their dissertations. Through a generous gift from Amit Bhatia, this funding opportunity annually supports at least six PhD students who have passed the A exam. Recipients hold the title of Amit Bhatia ’01 Global PhD Research Scholars. Meet the scholars.

All disciplines and research topics are welcome. Please indicate in your application if your project aligns with one of the Einaudi Center's global research priorities or one of our regional and thematic programs.

Eligibility

Cornell graduate students who have passed the A exam and been admitted to candidacy are eligible to apply. International fieldwork must be a critical component of your dissertation research. You must commit to travel abroad to conduct fieldwork for 9–12 months.

Please note that this award is meant to be supplementary to your primary funding source. This award does not provide tuition credit and requires students to be in absentia. A report is required upon completion.

Amount

$10,000, to be used before the end of the sixth PhD year. The award can cover the following expenses:

• International travel (economy airfare, visa fees)
• Domestic travel within the fieldwork country
• Accommodation and living expenses
• Research expenses (permits, translation costs, internet, archive access, survey costs, lab fees, etc.)

We encourage you to apply for other Cornell and external funding to complement this award, but please note that you are not eligible to apply for Einaudi’s travel grants. If you have already received a travel grant and wish to apply for a Global PhD Research Award, you may return your travel grant if you receive this award.

Please note that you may only bill for a research expense once. If an expense is already covered by this award or a Graduate School research travel grant, you may not use other Cornell or external grants to pay the same expense.

Deadline

Applications, recommendation letters, and transcripts are due Friday, March 7, 2025 (11:59 p.m. ET).

How to Apply

Please order your official electronic transcript through the Office of the Registrar (see below); do not send your transcript directly. In the application, you will be asked to provide the following:

1. Official electronic transcript (send to programs@einaudi.cornell.edu)
2. Abstract of your dissertation project (maximum 150 words)
3. Introduction to your dissertation project (maximum 400 words)
4. Statement explaining the contribution of your research to existing literature and its relevance to advancing the human condition, planetary sustainability, or other impacts (maximum 400 words)
5. Statement about publications that have most significantly informed your research (maximum 100 words)
6. Statement explaining your plans for international field research (maximum 600 words)
7. International field research budget information
8. NetID email address of your recommender (your graduate thesis advisor)

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Details

The IES Graduate Research Grant is available to graduate students in any field of study whose research is focused on the study of Europe.

Criteria

• Quality of the research proposal within the field
• Validity and feasibility of the project
• Research and professional qualifications
• Strength of academic performance and letter of recommendation

Requirements

• 4-5 page research proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
• Project budget
• 1 letter of recommendation*

Winners receive up to $4,000 in funding, distributed through their bursar account. The IES Graduate Research Grant application is conducted together with the Manon Michels and Michele Sicca Grant competitions. Candidates submit a single application and are automatically considered for each of the awards.

Contact IES with questions about this award.

Details

The Luigi Einaudi Graduate Dissertation Fellowship is a semester-long or year-long fellowship available to graduate students in modern European government, history, economics, and related social science fields. The award consists of a graduate student stipend for one or two semesters, in-absentia fees, and enrollment in Cornell's student health insurance plan.

Criteria

This fellowship is designed to enable graduate students to conduct field and archival research focused on Europe for an extended period (4-8 months). To be eligible, applicants must have completed the "A" exam in their department or have an exam date scheduled prior to submitting their application and have a dissertation project approved by their dissertation committee.

• Quality of the research proposal in a social science field
• Validity and feasibility of the applicant’s research project
• Research and professional qualifications
• Strength of the student’s academic performance and letters of recommendation

Requirements

• 8-10 page project proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
• 2 letters of recommendation

Contact IES with questions about this award.

Details

The Susan Tarrow Fellowship for Research in Europe was established in 2005 in honor of the associate director of the Institute for European Studies from 1985-2005. One of Tarrow's priorities was to establish funding to enable Cornell undergraduate students to pursue summer field research in Europe and to provide them with the intellectual and practical advising they need at all stages of their projects.

Undergraduate students from all fields of study are invited to submit applications to pursue research projects focused on Europe. In light of Tarrow’s passion for France and Italy, students planning a project in those countries are particularly encouraged to apply, though the fellowship is open to all Europeanists.

Requirements

• 4-5 page project proposal (double-spaced) with bibliography
• Budget listing estimated costs for airfare, lodging, food, etc.
• 1 letter of recommendation from Cornell Faculty
• Transcript 

The winner will receive up to $4,000 in funding, distributed through their bursar account.

Contact IES with questions about this award.