Slots: University presidents may nominate one junior and one senior scholar. A senior scholar is defined as any holder of a tenured post. (You may not nominate two junior or two senior scholars.)
Deadlines
Internal Deadline: Contact Jennifer Lidar in Foundation Relations at jlidar@usc.edu if you are interested in submission. RII is not coordinating this nomination process.
LOI: N/A
External Deadline: November 8, 2024, 5pm E.T.
Award Information
Award Type: Grant
Estimated Number of Awards: around 30
Anticipated Award Amount: $200,000
Who May Serve as PI: The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program is open only to citizens or permanent residents of the United States who have been nominated by the head of an institution designated by Carnegie Corporation of New York. Candidates must have a Ph.D., hold a terminal degree, or be a high-level professional working outside of academia. Nominators include heads of independent research institutes and learned societies, university presidents, leaders of some of the nation’s preeminent think tanks, and directors of major publishers, as well as editors of leading newspapers and magazines. Individuals may not apply for the Fellows Program via self-nomination.
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program prohibits a fellowship winner from accepting a fellowship of equal caliber or at a comparable level of funding that overlaps the same timeline as the Carnegie fellowship, especially awards that have specific time requirements. However, smaller grants and project support are acceptable on a case-by-case basis.
Link to Award: https://www.carnegie.org/awards/award/andrew-carnegie-fellows/
Process:
Contact Jennifer Lidar in Foundation Relations at jlidar@usc.edu if you are interested in submission. RII is not coordinating this nomination process.
Purpose
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program was established in 2015 to provide philanthropic support for high-caliber research in the humanities and social sciences. During its first eight years, nearly 250 scholars received fellowships of $200,000 to explore a range of important and enduring issues confronting our society.
In June 2023, the Corporation announced a second phase of the program and a new focus on political polarization in the United States. The program asks scholars to help Americans understand how and why our society has become so polarized and what we can do to strengthen the forces of cohesion in our society. Political polarization is characterized by threats to free speech, the decline of civil discourse, disagreement over basic facts, and a lack of mutual understanding and collaboration. The next class of fellows will be announced in spring 2025.
Fellowships of $200,000 are awarded annually to about 30 exceptional scholars, authors, journalists, and public intellectuals. The funding is for a period of one or two years with the anticipated result of a book or major study. The criteria prioritize the originality and promise of the research, its potential impact on the field, and the scholar’s plans for communicating the findings to a broad audience.
The Corporation anticipates that the work of the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program will explore the many ways political polarization in the United States manifests itself in society and suggest ways that it may be mitigated. Studies of polarization in other countries will be welcomed providing they offer lessons that can be applied to the United States. Projects based in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences are welcomed.
Nominations will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
- Originality and promise of the idea
- Quality of the proposal
- Record of the nominee
- Plans to communicate findings to a broad audience
- Promise to offer solutions to harmful polarization or to enhance social cohesion
Visit our Institutionally Limited Submission webpage for more updates and other announcements.