"Cohesion under Crisis"

The "Cohesion under Crisis" research team (Professors Cesi Cruz, Allen Hicken, Anil Menon, Tom Pepinsky, and Dan Slater), under the auspices of a Minerva grant on that theme, is offering five fellowships of $18,000 each for current graduate students or recent graduates seeking to undertake fieldwork in one of the following Southeast Asian countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

In addition to pursuing their own research, fellows will conduct three months of fieldwork on social cohesion in their country of focus. They will produce a final report for the project team on the history of social cohesion in that country— identifying critical junctures that have shaped salient social cleavages and relations between groups— and will help the research team conduct interviews with political and social elites and/or focus groups to understand how social cohesion shapes community responses to crises, and how crises in turn shape social cohesion and other social and political outcomes.

App Deadline: June 15, 2026

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