Student Fellowships & Research

Description.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. Founded in 1910, its work is nonpartisan and dedicated to achieving practical results.

Each year the Endowment offers 8-10 one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year. They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 400 participating colleges. Carnegie Junior Fellows work as research assistants to the Endowment's senior associates in one of the Endowment’s program areas. The 2012 – 2032 project areas are:

• Democracy—Political science background preferred.
• Nuclear Policy
• Energy and Climate
• International Economics—Economics background required.
• Middle East Studies—Native or near-native fluency in Arabic essential.
• South Asian Studies— Applicants should be comfortable with quantitative data manipulations as well as possess an interest in military issues
• Asia Studies—Mandarin Chinese reading skills a huge plus.
• Russian/Eurasian Studies—Excellent Russian language skills required.

Junior Fellows have the opportunity to conduct research for books, co-author journal articles and policy papers, participate in meetings with high-level officials, contribute to congressional testimony, and organize briefings attended by scholars, journalists and government officials.

Benefits.
Carnegie Fellowships are one-year (August 1 through July 31) full-time, paid positions. Junior Fellows are currently paid a gross salary of $3,000 per month ($36,000 per year) subject to federal, state and local taxes. A generous benefits package is provided, including medical, dental and life insurance as well as vacation leave. Junior Fellows are responsible for their own housing arrangements.

Eligibility.  The application process is highly competitive. Approximately 5% of applicants are ultimately selected for positions. Applications are judged on the quality of the written essay, related academic study and/or work experience, grades, recommendations, and personal interviews.

• Applicants must be graduating seniors or students who have graduated during the last academic year. No one who has started graduate studies is eligible for consideration.
• Applicants need not be a U.S. citizen if they attended a university located in the United States. However, all applicants must be eligible to work in the United States for a full 12 months from August 1 through July 31 following graduation. Students on F-1 visas who are eligible to work in the U.S. for the full year (August 1 through July 31) may apply for the program.
• Applicants must have attended one of the approximately 400 participating schools. (Bowdoin is a participating school.)
• Applicant should have a strong academic record. (Although there is no official GPA requirement, Carnegie Junior Fellows typically have GPAs in the range of 3.7 and higher.)

Bowdoin's Internal Selection Process. To obtain a Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellows Program application form interested students should contact Emily Briley in the Office of Student Fellowships and Research after the third week in October, at which time the forms should be available. Applications for the Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellows Program are not available online.

Bowdoin is allowed to nominate two students annually to the Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellows Program. To be considered, applicants must submit the materials listed below to the Office of Student Fellowships and Research by the “Initial Bowdoin Deadline” (see above). Bowdoin’s Selection Committee will review these materials and those applicants determined to be most competitive will be contacted to schedule a campus interview. Based on these materials and the campus interview, the Committee will determine which students will receive Bowdoin’s nomination.

Materials for the Final Application. If you receive Bowdoin’s nomination, it is your responsibility to continue revising and collecting your materials and to secure your letters of recommendation by the relevant deadline. By the “Final Bowdoin Deadline,” each Bowdoin nominee must submit the items listed below to the Office of Student Fellowships and Research, which will send all materials directly to the program for further consideration.

More about the Selection Process. The application process is highly competitive. Approximately 5% of the applicants are ultimately selected for positions. The Carnegie Endowment’s Selection Committee chooses approximately 25 applicants for interview. Those not selected for interviews will be notified during the month of February. “Finalists” are interviewed in February or early March and will be notified of selection/non-selection no later than March 31. Applicants are judged on the quality of the written essay, related academic study and/or work experience, grades, recommendations, and personal interviews.