Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships to promote International Research

In recent years, this widely respected residential program has offered space for post-doctoral students to work as peers to their Visiting Fellows. The Kellogg Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship offers time to pursue scholarly development, advance your research portfolio, and develop your skills as you prepare to enter the academic job market.

As a postdoctoral fellow, pursue research related to the Kellogg Institute’s themes of democracy and human development, interact and engage with Kellogg Faculty Fellows, present your work to the Institute’s community, and engage with other scholars and practitioners from around the world. Fellows also have the opportunity to publish in Kellogg’s peer-reviewed Working Paper Series.

An Ideal Scholarly Environment

• While at the Kellogg Institute, postdoctoral fellows interact with leading scholars one-to-one and through the Institute’s seminars and lectures, international conferences, roundtable discussions on world affairs, and cultural events.
• The facilities at the Hesburgh Center are ideal for scholarly research. Fellows have spacious offices, on-site information technology support, and full access to library services, as well as other campus facilities.
• Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships include:
  • Very competitive stipend
  • Research funding
  • Medical insurance benefits
  • Partial housing subsidy for the Hesburgh Center Residences adjacent to the Kellogg Institute offices, or other on-campus housing conveniently located

Funding Information 

• The stipend is $80,000/year.
• One-year postdocs are paid over 12 months; if a second year is approved, the second-year stipend is paid over the additional 12 months.
• $2,000/year is available in travel funds.

Who is Eligible?

• They invite applications from scholars who conduct international research on their themes of global democracy and/or human development. Applicants may come from any country and must have recently earned a PhD within the last five years.
• Most successful applicants will work in a social science discipline or in history. Advanced ABD graduate students may apply, but awards are contingent on their having completed the PhD before June 30 of the starting fellowship year.
• Eligibility Considerations (for non-US citizens/residents)
  • For non-US citizens/residents please consider:
    • Advanced English language proficiency is required.
    • Foreign nationals must have a valid passport and be able to obtain a J-1 Visa.
• Other Considerations
  • According to US immigration regulations, an individual who completes a period of stay of less than five years as a J-1 professor or research scholar and does not have another appointment immediately following the termination of said stay, cannot return to the US as a J-1 professor or research scholar until the individual has been outside the US for a minimum period of two years. This two-year bar is different from the two-year home residency requirement normally issued to J-1 scholars.

Selection Criteria 

• Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis. A committee composed of Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellows evaluates the applications based on the following selection criteria:
  • The individual’s scholarly record and potential
  • The problem being addressed and the interest and importance within and beyond the researcher’s field
  • The study’s relationship to the research themes of the Kellogg Institute
  • The quality of the research design, including basic hypotheses, research methodology, and the kinds of data or evidence the researcher is considering
  • The importance and originality of this project and it’s clarity to someone outside the applicant’s discipline
  • The quantity and quality of work the researcher would be able to complete during his/her time at the Institute.

For more information, visit Kellogg Institute for International Studies.