CENTRAL ASIA-AZERBAIJAN FELLOWSHIP ONLINE PROGRAM FOR OSCE ACADEMY ALUMNI
Fall 2021 Fellowship: October 1 – November 30, 2021
The George Washington University’s Central Asia Program at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies is happy to open its Central Asia and Azerbaijan Fellowship to alumni from the OSCE Academy, as part of a new partnership between CAP and the Academy.
The theme selected for the fall 2021 fellowship is: Societal Engagement with Cultural, Educational, Environmental, and Gender-Related Issues in Central Asia.
The Central Asia-Azerbaijan Fellowship Program (CAAFP) is intended for young professionals – scholars, government officials, public policy experts, and social activists – who seek to enhance their research and analytical skills and become public policy leaders. The fellowship is available to individuals from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Mongolia. The fellowship program provides a platform for the exchange of ideas and build lasting intellectual networks among the wider Central Eurasian and U.S. scholarly and policy communities.
CAAFP fellows will participate in a tailor-made online program. They will follow a weekly online class, Theories of Social Sciences applied to Central Asian Studies, that will present the main social sciences theories applied to today’s Central Asia. It aims at helping the fellows to access state of the art knowledge on social sciences theories that matter for understanding Central Asia today: political regimes, authoritarianism, democratization, populism, nationalism, identity politics, memory studies, and social mobilization and activism. The class will include 3 readings a week, a PPT lecture, and a reading-based discussion.
The Fellows will also work on their own research paper and will be able to consult regularly with CAP staff. Their final paper will be submitted for publication to the CAP online series.
Fellows will also be given the opportunity of following some writing classes with CAP Senior Editor in charge of the Central Asia Analytical Network, and with journalists from The Diplomat, to prepare short, op-ed style, publications for these two outlets.
Depending on the course of the pandemic situation the most successful Fellows will receive an opportunity to spend one month at the George Washington University – Elliott School of International Affairs starting in early 2022.
Deadline to apply: April 30, 2021
Please send the documents below to infocap@gwu.edu:
• Your CV
• A letter of motivation
• A two-page research proposal
• Two references
