Since its inception in June 2001, the Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics has awarded fellowships and research grants to scholars in a wide variety of fields, including economics, government, sociology, philosophy, law, health policy, anthropology and history. JWE currently offers the following fellowship for Harvard graduate students:
JWE also participates in the Economics, History and Politics Fellowship Program:
JWE occasionally provides research grants for Harvard graduate students and nontenured faculty working within the discipline of economics:
Since its inception in June 2001, the Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics has awarded fellowships and research grants to scholars in a wide variety of fields, including economics, government, sociology, philosophy, law, health policy, anthropology and history. JWE currently offers the following fellowship for Harvard graduate students:
JWE also participates in the Economics, History and Politics Fellowship Program:
JWE occasionally provides research grants for Harvard graduate students and nontenured faculty working within the discipline of economics:
The JWE Program is not accepting applications for 2012-2013.
The Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics at Harvard University will provide grants during the 2011–2012 academic year to support Harvard graduate students whose research topics are relevant to questions of justice and human welfare. This interdisciplinary initiative, that connects faculty and student research across the University, intends to promote research, learning and knowledge connecting the study of freedom, justice, and economics to human welfare and development.
The main thrust of this initiative is to develop a new generation of students, linked to distinguished scholars, whose work encompasses ethical, political and economic dimensions of human development. This approach leans against the modern tendency to technical specialization and the separation of economics from moral and political dimensions. The focus of the initiative is to expand human capabilities within a context of freedom and justice.
Dissertation fellowships of $23,000 will be awarded to free students from teaching for a year in order to develop or complete their dissertations. (This sum may be increased to cover facilities fees and individual health insurance, if the student's school or department will not do so.) Additional funds for summer research are also available to fellowship recipients.
Recipients of the dissertation grants are expected to be in residence at Harvard while they are receiving the fellowship. Recipients of both kinds of grants will be expected to participate in events designed to bring together faculty and students whose research interests join justice, welfare and economics.
We invite proposals for support of research into ideas of freedom, equality, welfare, rights and justice, and also proposals for support of empirical studies that bear on these topics. Priority for funding will be given to proposals that bridge at least two of the following three approaches: normative, interdisciplinary, or empirical. These might include, for example, normative inquiries into questions of freedom, justice or equality that arise in response to particular empirical phenomena, or empirical investigations that may give rise to such questions or cast light on what particular ideas of freedom, welfare or equality come to in practice.
The following research areas are among those that would be consistent with the aim of the Project:
Given the aims of the initiative, we would expect applications from doctoral students in Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools in such areas as economics, business administration, law, philosophy, political science, public policy, social policy, political economy and government, and sociology. But the grants are not restricted to applicants from these particular disciplines.
The JWE uses the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Standard Application
Applications and all supporting materials should be sent to:
Jessica Barnard
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
1727 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Information on other Weatherhead Center fellowships can be found on our Web site at: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/funding/student.
If you have any questions, please contact: Jessica Barnard at 617-495-8923 or jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu.
The Project for Justice, Welfare, and Economics invites applications for short-term grants in the field of economics. Competition is open to graduate students and nontenured professors working within the discipline of economics who are affiliated with Harvard University. Grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded to applicants proposing research that encompasses and integrates ethical and political dimensions of human development into the study of economics. Applications should include a CV, a brief (1-page) description of the proposed research, and a budget, and must be submitted NO LATER THAN JUNE 10, 2011.
Applications should be forwarded to Jessica Barnard. Project Officer, Project on Justice, Welfare, and Economics, jbarnard@wcfia.harvard.edu,(617) 495-8923 Street; 1727 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138
The Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics is delighted to
participate in offering the Prize Fellowships in Economics, History and
Politics, along with the Center for History and Economics; the History
and Philosophy of Political Economy Group; and the Jameel Poverty
Action Lab at MIT. This postdoctoral fellowships are intended to
encourage outstanding scholarship in any field of economics, history,
politics and related subjects, with a special emphasis on scholarship
which crosses the frontiers between disciplines, and which addresses
questions of lasting importance.
For further information, please see http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/ehppf/