Faculty External Opportunities

Listed below are a number of opportunities to support faculty research, training, service, career advancement, and other experiences at the global level. Each linked program can provide more information and steps to apply. If you have questions, or need support in planning funding and proposal strategies, please email us at cgs@uwyo.edu.

Highlighted Opportunities, Guidance, and Additional Funding Information

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Cormack Consulting Group (CCG) partners with Club Orizont to provide regular updated on funding opportunities for international research and higher education. Funding opportunities are timely, but also useful for future planning, and occur across research concentrations. To see past CCG newsletters, visit our archive.

 

 

Fulbright allows you to teach, research, or do administration abroad for periods ranging from two months to one year. There are a variety of programs, so view each webpage for more information. Common programs include:

  • Teaching: teach courses in a foreign country
  • Teaching/Research: a combination of teaching and research
  • Research: depending on the project and circumstances, you may have to satisfy IRB requirements at UW and specific requirements with your host institution
  • Distinguished professor: consider this option if you are a full professor; often fewer people apply and the pay can be higher

 

Awards:

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has a longstanding commitment to making the foreign policy community in the United States more representative of American society as a whole, and actively seeks fellowship candidates from diverse backgrounds. Available programs include (but are not limited to) the:

  • International Affairs Fellowship
  • International Affairs Fellowship in Canada
  • International Affairs Fellowship in Indonesia
  • International Affairs Fellowship in Japan
  • Robert E. Belfer International Affairs Fellowship in European Security
  • International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars

 

For more information and to apply, visit the CFR Fellowship site.

The Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholars Program offers a unique opportunity for a diverse set of qualified academics to advance scholarship in Ethiopia as full-time teaching faculty members at Ethiopian institutions of higher education. The aim of the program is to strengthen Ethiopian universities’ capacity to teach and manage undergraduate and graduate programs and enhance research capacity within Ethiopian universities.

 

For more information and to apply, visit the IIE Distinguished Scholars Program page.

The Japan-US Friendship Commission (JUSFC) is a grant-making agency that supports research, education, public affairs and exchange, and promotes scholarly, cultural and artistic activities between Japan and the United States. Its mission is to maintain reciprocal people-to-people understanding, and stimulate partnerships that advance common interests between the two countries. JUSFC also serves to maintain expertise on Japan Studies throughout US academic and professional institutions. The agency generally does not operate its own programs. It supports academic and non-profit organizations that conceptualize and execute US-Japan training, research and exchange programs.

 

For more information and to apply, visit the JUSFC Institutional Grants page.

The American Academy in Berlin seeks to enrich transatlantic discussion in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public policy through the development and communication of projects of the highest merit. Past fellowship recipients include anthropologists, historians, literary and legal scholars, philosophers, writers of fiction and nonfiction, journalists, translators, musicologists, sociologists, economists, political scientists, diplomats, and public policy experts.

 

For inquiries, please contact Thomas Castañeda at tc@americanacademy.de.

 

For more information and to apply, please visit the Berlin Prize application page.

The American Academy in Rome annually awards the Rome Prize to support innovative work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the Rome Prize is awarded to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence.

 

For more information and to apply, please visit the Rome Prize application page.

The Institute of International Education (IIE) manages programs in over 180 countries. Ongoing Grants are available for scholarships and programs in a multitude of disciplines.

The International and Foreign Language Education office administers domestic and overseas grant and fellowship programs that strengthen foreign language instruction, international teaching and research, professional development, and curriculum development:

 

The Fulbright-Hays Program provide overseas funding to U.S. educators to participate in overseas study and research: