Each year, the Fung Global Fellows Program will select six scholars
from around the world to be in residence at Princeton for one academic
year and to engage in research, writing, and collaboration around a
common theme. The program includes a public seminar series where the
fellows will present their work to the University community. Fellowships
will be awarded through a competitive application process to scholars
employed outside the United States who have demonstrated outstanding
scholarly achievement, exhibit unusual intellectual promise, and are
still early in their careers.
This program is supported by a gift from William Fung, group chairman
of Li & Fung, a Hong Kong-based multinational group of export and
retailing companies. Fung earned a BSE in electrical engineering from
Princeton in 1970 and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of
Business in 1972, and then began his career at the family firm. He
joined Princeton's Board of Trustees in 2009, and has previously
supported Princeton's groundbreaking financial aid program.
The Fung Global Fellows Program welcomes applications from scholars
who have received their Ph.D. (or the equivalent of an Anglo-American
Ph.D.) within 10 years of the proposed start date of the fellowship. For
a fellowship beginning in fall 2013, applicants must have received
their degree no earlier than September 1, 2003.
- The receipt of the Ph.D. is determined by the date on which all requirements for the degree at the applicant’s home institution, including the defense and filing of the dissertation, were fulfilled.
- Applicants must hold a position outside the United States of America at the time of application and are expected to return to that institution at the conclusion of the fellowship.
- Fellowships will be awarded to candidates who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement and exhibit unusual intellectual promise but are still at the beginning of their careers. Criteria for the fellowship include the strength of the candidate’s research projects, the relationship of those projects to the program’s theme, the candidate’s previous scholarly work, the candidate’s ability to contribute to the intellectual life and intellectual exchange of the program, and the candidate’s work experience outside the United States. The selection committee is looking to establish a cohort of fellows whose research represents diverse analytical approaches and addresses a wide variety of periods and places. The Fung Global Fellows Program has a particular interest in fostering innovative interdisciplinary approaches.
- US citizens and noncitizens, regardless of race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability, are eligible to apply.
- Fellows must reside in or near Princeton during the academic year of their fellowship so that they can attend weekly seminars and other events on campus. Fellows are also expected to present a paper from their ongoing projects at one of the sessions of the weekly seminar.
Moreinfo: http://www.princeton.edu/funggfp
