The Cold War Archival Research (CWAR) Fellowship is now accepting applications from advanced undergraduate Columbia, Barnard, and General Studies students, and from Columbia graduate students.
The deadline to apply is October 27th, 2017.
The European Institute’s CWAR Fellowship offers to selected Columbia students the opportunity to conduct original archival research on the history of culture and the Cold War. Those interested in public diplomacy, journalistic history, the Cold War, and the engagement of modern Europe with other regions will find abundant resources for productive investigations at archives they will visit with the group.
In 2018, the fellows will visit the following archives:
- The Hoover Institution Library and Archives in Stanford, California, in January 2018.
- The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at Central European University in Budapest in May/June 2018.
Each session lasts about one week and involves a group of Columbia students accompanied by Dr. Phillips. Students conduct primary research in the archives during the day. Evenings are spent with the faculty advisers, who lead group discussions on research progress.
After the conclusion of each research session, the students work on their research papers to be presented at a conference at Columbia in the Fall 2018 semester. The faculty advisers will work with students who will have authored the most promising papers, and will guide them to transform their papers or senior theses into publishable articles for peer‐reviewed journals in diplomatic or cold war journals.
For more information, please visit the European Institute's website on the CWAR Fellowship.
