Hoover Institution Encourages Scholars to Apply to Its Early-Career Fellowship Programs for 2025

Hoover Institution, (Stanford, CA) - The application window is now open for two programs aimed at propelling the trajectories of early-career scholars at the Hoover Institution.

The Hoover Fellows program, established in 2019, offers early-career PhD recipients a five-year fellowship period in which they can conduct research and publish about matters critical to public policy and contribute to the intellectual life of the Hoover Institution. The term can be renewed for an additional five years. After ten years in the program, Hoover Fellows are eligible to join the ranks of the senior fellowship.

Current Hoover Fellows include Jacquelyn Schneider, who directs Hoover's Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, Michael Hartney, who focuses on K-12 education, Valentin Bolotnyy, an economist who studies public policy, and Erin Baggott Carter, who studies Chinese politics and propaganda.

They also include Joseph Ledford, who studies the history of US foreign policy, Ria Roy, who studies the history of modern Korea and East Asia, Cole Bunzel, who focuses on history and contemporary affairs of the Islamic Middle East, and Eyck Freymann, whose expertise lies in the geopolitics of climate change and strategic deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.

The W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship, established in its current form in 1997, is an annual resident program, whereby the Hoover Institution selects a diverse group of scholars representing a wide breadth of disciplines from prominent centers of academia across the nation. National Fellows take a pause from their customary professional responsibilities to come to Hoover, where they undertake unrestricted, rigorous, and creative research. They are expected to develop a publishable manuscript during their one-year period of study in residence at Hoover.

Last year's cohort of National Fellows included Kelly J. Shannon, who used the time to work on a book chronicling US-Iran relations in the first half of the twentieth century.

Some very prominent senior members of the Hoover fellowship also spent time as National Fellows, including current Hoover Institution director Condoleezza Rice, from 1985 to 1986. Hoover History Lab cochair Stephen Kotkin was a National Fellow from 2010 to 2011. Also, Distinguished Visiting Fellow Michael D. Bordo was a National Fellow between 2012 and 2013. Senior Fellow John F. Cogan was a National Fellow from 1979 to 1980.

Hoover Institution research director and Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Senior Fellow Steven J. Davis, himself a distinguished economist who has become one of America's leading sources of insight into the rise of work from home after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, was a Hoover National Fellow from 1988 to 1989.

"The Hoover Fellowship and National Fellowship programs offer new and early-career scholars exceptional opportunities to focus on their research and to engage with scholars and leaders in the Hoover and Stanford communities," Davis said. "My time as a National Fellow in 1988-89 was highly productive on the research front, and it helped me build professional relationships that have endured throughout my career."

Applications for both the Hoover Fellows and Hoover National Fellows programs are welcome through November 18, 2024.

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