The Abe Fellowship Program encourages international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program fosters the development of a new generation of researchers interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics. The program is carried out in cooperation with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
The Abe Fellowship Research Agenda
a) Traditional and non-traditional approaches to security and diplomacy
b) Global and regional economic issues
c) The role of civil society
Abe Fellowship
The Program administers an annual fellowship competition that provides scholars and non-academic research professionals in the social sciences and related disciplines with support for research projects addressing one or more of the three components of the Research Agenda.
Application Deadline: September 1, 2009
Abe Fellowship for Journalists
The Abe Fellowship for Journalists is designed to encourage in-depth coverage of topics of pressing concern to the
United States
and
Japan
through individual short-term policy-related projects.Applicants are invited to submit proposals on one of the three components of the Research Agenda.
Application Deadline: September 15, 2009
Abe Fellowship Program Call for Applications
For more information about the Abe Fellowship Program, please contact the program directly at abe@ssrc.org
Abe Fellowship Program
Social Science Research Council
One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA
Email: abe@ssrc.org
Tel: 212-377-2700 / Fax: 212-377-2727
(Please note that fellows are not allowed to hold the Abe Fellowship and the Japan Foundation Fellowship at the same time.)
Ms. Paige Cottingham-Streater, Deputy Executive Director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and director of the Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program, gives her first-hand account of a recent symposium featuring Abe and Mansfield Fellows.
