The application cycle for the 2025-26 cohort is now closed. The announcements for the 2026-27 cohort will be shared in spring of 2026.
The 2025-2026 academic year welcomed the seventh cohort of fellows for the US- Asia Grand Strategy Predoctoral Fellowship. The fellows are 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 Summer Intensive Workshops and the annual Bridging Asia Conference. Through these programs, students receive feedback on research and scholarship with an emphasis on the tradecraft of scholarship and engaging the public square. 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.