Call for Fellowship｜’Cohesion Under Crisis’ Research Fellowship (Application Deadline: June 15)

This call for fellowship applications is being shared on behalf of the “Cohesion under Crisis” research team (Professors Cesi Cruz, Allen Hicken, Anil Menon, Tom Pepinsky, and Dan Slater). Under the auspices of a Minerva grant on that theme, they are offering five fellowships of $18,000 each for current graduate students or recent graduates seeking to undertake fieldwork in one of the following five Southeast Asian countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

In addition to pursuing their own research, fellows will conduct three months of fieldwork on social cohesion in their country of focus. At the end of the fellowship, they will produce a report for the project team that discusses the history of social cohesion in that country, identifying critical junctures that have shaped salient social cleavages and relations between groups. They will also help the research team conduct interviews with political and social elites and/or focus groups to understand how social cohesion shapes community responses to various crises, and how such crises in turn shape social cohesion and other social and political outcomes.

Application due: June 15, 2026

Apply here: https://go.hawaii.edu/iUh