The USC Korean Studies Institute is pleased to invite applications for the 2025-2026 US- Asia Grand Strategy Predoctoral Fellowship. This seventh cohort of fellows will be outstanding doctoral students who are interested in the US-East Asia relations broadly – mainly those interested in Korean, Chinese, Japanese, or Southeast Asian security or US policy toward the region. The fellowship is interdisciplinary and open to students in fields such as political science, international relations, history, sociology, economics and the humanities.
The US-Asia Grand Strategy Program identifies and creates a vibrant network of scholars in US-Asia research. Predoctoral Fellows and USC doctoral students in the program will participate in a regular set of meetings and workshops and receive feedback on research and scholarship with an emphasis on the tradecraft of scholarship and engaging the public square. The three main pillars of the fellowship will be a three-day Summer Workshop held at USC in August 2025; the annual USC “Bridging Asia” policy mentoring conference held in late January; and a trip to Washington, D.C. to participate in policy briefings and meet selected policy and thought leaders inside and out of government. Mentoring on professionalization, engaging the public square, and applying social science research to important policy debates is an important component of the program.
Qualifications
Candidates must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the social sciences or humanities at an accredited university graduate school other than USC. Candidates must have passed any Ph.D. qualifying examinations and be in the dissertation research or writing in a topic related to the US-Asia relations or East Asia security.
Application Materials
Applicants should submit via ksipredocs@dornsife.usc.edu. Review of applications will begin February 15, 2025. Applicants will be notified of the decision by March, 2025.
- Personal statement
- Two-three pages in length, double spaced
- Description of the applicant’s dissertation project
- Letters of Recommendation
- Two: one must come from the dissertation advisor
- Signed and on official letter head
- Writing sample (between 30-50 pages)
- Curriculum Vitae