The application deadline is November 2, 2018.  Applicants will be notified of decisions via email in February 2019.

Professional qualifications

The ideal candidate for a CASBS fellowship is a highly accomplished academic or thinker (relative to career stage).

1. Has a PhD, professional degree (e.g., JD, MD), an equivalent foreign degree, or has achieved an equivalent level of professional reputation.

2. Is three to four years past the doctorate or equivalent degree (CASBS does not offer post-doctoral fellowships).

3. Is an academic faculty member—or an independent researcher—who exhibits a high level of achievement (adjusted for rank), including a strong record of research publications.

4. Communicates clearly in English.

5. Is someone who is very interested in participating in regular interdisciplinary conversations.

6. Is willing to commit to being in residence for the course of the fellowship year without conflicting commitments.

Although excellence in both research and accomplishments continues to be a necessary qualification for successful fellowship applicants, it is not a sufficient qualification. We seek fellows who will be both influential with, and open to influence by, their colleagues in the diverse multidisciplinary cohort we assemble for a given year. The primary focus of the fellowship year is on reflection and writing, but we expect the work to be informed and transformed by the fellowship experience as a result of interactions with other fellows.

We encourage applications from minorities, women, international scholars, and scholars from a wide variety of colleges and universities.

Fields of research

In addition to scholars working in fields of the behavioral and social sciences, those in other areas will also be considered for fellowships if their work has human behavioral and social dimensions.

About the Center’s selection process

The Center’s selection process is based on an online application system. All scholars requesting consideration must apply via online application portal.

The Center’s fellowship selection committee, composed of past CASBS fellows specializing in multiple disciplines, considers the best-rated applications for CASBS fellowship awards.

Final roster decisions (for all scholars requesting consideration, including past fellows) take into account a range of criteria for cohort composition, including but not limited to: disciplinary balance, institutional diversity, and demographic diversity (race/ethnicity, gender, career stage, nationality, and geographic location). Please note that priority in individual applicant selection will be given to first-time fellows.

Please also note that fellowship awards are not transferable to later years.

Residential and other requirements

CASBS is committed to the concept of a residential fellowship. Consequently, fellows must reside during their fellowship term in a community within fifteen miles of the Center. San Francisco, Berkeley, the East Bay, and San Jose, for example, do not fulfill this requirement. Center staff can provide information about finding housing and schools for those relocating for the fellowship year, but fellows are ultimately responsible for finding their own housing.

We further require that fellows:

1. Not hold a concurrent teaching appointment or have commitments, including research or collaborations, that result in prolonged or frequent absences from the Center.  We ask fellows to limit their travel to the absolutely essential for the fellowship year.

2. Be present for lunch three to four days a week and attend the weekly seminars and other speaker events hosted by the Center.

Stipends

As appropriate, stipends for the academic year will be awarded to supplement faculty sabbatical support; a significant portion of the fellow's total support is generally provided by sabbatical funds and external funding from awards and grants secured by the fellow. Except in unusual circumstances, Center stipend support is contingent on the applicant's provision of firm assurances of matching funds. Depending on available funds, the Center provides stipends according to the following principles:

1. A Center stipend is based on the fellow's academic salary for the year before residence.

2. That stipend cannot exceed one-half of the fellow's academic year (nine-month) base salary for that year and is additionally subject to an upper limit set by the CASBS board of directors.

3. The cap is currently set at $75,000, but may increase slightly.

4. The sum of the fellow's salary from a home institution and a Center stipend may not exceed the fellow's base academic salary for the fellowship year.

Fellows receive their stipend payments directly; the Center cannot assign a fellow’s stipend to a third party or institution.

We can only provide stipends to first-time fellows. Returning CASBS fellows are expected to fund themselves.

CASBS partner fellowship programs

CASBS partners with several entities to provide funding for some residential fellows whose research projects focus on certain topics.

An applicant’s statement of interest in one of these options does not bear on the CASBS fellowship selection committee’s process, nor does it guarantee that an applicant will receive this particular fellowship in the event that they are awarded a CASBS fellowship.

Berggruen Fellows

The Berggruen Institute seeks to encourage a deeper understanding of the great political, economic, social, and cultural transformations that are reshaping the human condition, in order to better inform practical responses. It organizes and supports inquiries that bring multicultural and interdisciplinary knowledge to questions of governance, of philosophy and culture, and of global restructuring including especially the role of China. 

To this end, the Institute sponsors up to five fellowships annually at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford. Berggruen fellows need not be academics, but they must be committed to intellectual work of the highest quality. As fellows, they will have time for their own projects of research and writing, but they will be asked also to collaborate closely with Berggruen fellows at other campuses and to make at least some effort to present their work to non-specialists.

For 2019–20, the Institute is eager to support fellows working on topics related to the Institute’s Great Transformations agenda. These include four core, intersecting areas:

(1) transformations of the human: how are human self-understandings and social organization changing in the face of new technologies such as AI and gene-editing?

(2) the future of democracy: in time of widespread social distrust and conflict, how may democratic institutions and processes be rejuvenated?

(3) the future of capitalism and market economies: what are the bases for new sorts of social contracts?

(4) future of geopolitics and globalization: in a world that appears to be breaking up, how can we work together more effectively? 

Applications for a Berggruen fellowship at CASBS should be made through the CASBS application portal. All applications are reviewed by both the CASBS fellowship selection committee and the Berggruen fellowship committee.

For more information, please contact Jennifer Bourne of the Berggruen Institute at jb@berggruen.org

The Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship Program

The Center is a participating residential research center in the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship Program of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The Burkhardt fellowship is open to recently tenured humanists to support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Application for the Burkhardt fellowship must be made directly to the ACLS by late September for a fellowship in the next one to three years.

Please note that scholars who are awarded a Burkhardt fellowship by the ACLS have an “automatic” firm invitation from CASBS only if those scholars are completely self-funded by their Burkhardt award, their sabbatical funding, other non-CASBS funding sources they might have, or any combination thereof. Should a Burkhardt fellow require additional funding from CASBS, he or she must also apply separately to our residential fellowship program.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)-Stanford University CASBS Fellow

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)-Stanford University CASBS Fellowship provides opportunities for CUHK faculty members to advance their research by taking part in the residential fellowship program at CASBS that fosters interdisciplinary intellectual exchange. This prestigious opportunity is open to scholars in the behavioral and social sciences.

Fellows should be nominated by CUHK. For more information about the fellowship and application procedure, please visit the CUHK webpage or contact Olivia Kwok of the Office of Academic Links, CUHK at oliviakwok@cuhk.edu.hk

William T. Grant Scholars

The Center encourages William T. Grant Scholars to contact us regarding a fellowship year at CASBS. This career development program supports promising early-career researchers with interests in reducing inequality or understanding the use of research evidence.

W.T. Grant Scholars who wish to spend a year at CASBS must apply to our residential fellowship program.

For more information on the William T. Grant Scholars program, visit the William T. Grant Scholars Program website.

National University of Singapore Fellow

The National University of Singapore Fellow (NUS Fellow) is sponsored by the National University of Singapore (NUS).  Leading scholars in the behavioral and social sciences from within NUS will be considered for the fellowship. 

Applicants interested in the fellowship must first be approved by NUS. For more information about the position and the process, please contact Brenda Lim at dprlimbn@nus.edu.sg

Presence-CASBS Fellow

The Presence-CASBS Fellowship supports one fellow whose projects will be engaged in nudging forward the strategic focus of Presence.

Presence is an incubator and curator of research, education, and clinical interface initiatives that address three strategic focus areas:

1. Harnessing technology for the human experience in medicine
2. Studying and advocating for the patient-physician relationship
3. Reducing medical errors.

Presence was founded at Stanford University in 2015 by Abraham Verghese, MD, Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor, and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine.

Presence works with partners on and off campus and is anchored in the Stanford School of Medicine.

We seek applicants who can articulate how their fellowship will contribute to the Presence mission and strategic direction. Contributions range from primary research in our focus areas (utilizing our living labs—Stanford Hospitals and Clinics—if needed), policy outcomes, publications, social movements, and other impactful initiatives.

Stanford-Taiwan Social Science Fellow

The Stanford-Taiwan Social Science fellow (STSS fellow) is sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan. Leading Taiwanese scholars in the behavioral and social sciences who wish to spend a year at CASBS can apply for the fellowship.

Applications must first be approved by the fellowship’s agency: Science and Technology Policy Research and Information Center (STPI) of the National Applied Research Laboratories of Taiwan (NARLabs). For more information about the fellowship and the process, please contact STPI at stb@stpi.narl.org.tw or visit STSS program website.

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