CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
2024-25 Immigration Initiative at Harvard M.A. Fellows Program
The Immigration Initiative at Harvard (IIH) Fellows Program provides opportunities for learning, mentorship, professional development, and community building for interdisciplinary graduate students focused on immigrant origin children and youth. The Immigration Initiative at Harvard is inviting applications from HGSE Ed.M. students who are interested in working on issues related to the children of immigrants and their educational experiences and outcomes. We offer a $1500 stipend.
Qualifications:
The Fellowship, extending over an academic year, requires a willingness to participate and contribute to the Immigration Initiative seminar — a supportive learning community focused on dilemmas of research and practice serving immigrant origin children and youth, and which features monthly colloquium speakers. This includes participation in the IIH seminar and the opportunity to present and receive feedback on ongoing Fellows’ work.
IIH develops resources for educators, researchers, and policy makers in the field. Fellows will be expected to contribute to a ‘deliverable’ that is part of the IIH public goods. Deliverables may include an Educator Brief; a Policy Brief; filming and/or editing of the new Moving Stories DocuSeries, conducting and/or coding structured interviews for our School Climate research; or contributing to social media outreach. The specific deliverable will be mutually determined based on the Fellow’s skills and interests and IIH’s needs.
Requirements:
- A commitment of a minimum of five hours a week contributing to IIH activities (e.g., research and writing content for the IIH website; developing Educator Briefs; coding qualitative data; recruiting participants; conducting focus groups). Please note, this weekly commitment is in addition to course commitments listed below.
- Enrollment in the IIH Seminar [H509]
- Enroll in the Spring semester Immigrant Children and Youth Course [H513]
- Participate in IIH team meetings (as needed)
Interested applicants should send the following to andrena_mason@gse.harvard.edu
- Cover letter detailing what you hope to gain and contribute should you receive the IIH Fellowship (please outline the skills you bring and hope to draw upon as well as develop)
- Curriculum vitae
- Faculty letter of recommendation
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and finalists will be interviewed online.
Should you have questions about the IIH Fellows Program, please email the IIH director, Carola Suárez-Orozco at carola_suarezorozco@gse.harvard.edu or the IIH Program coordinator Andrena Mason at andrena_mason@gse.harvard.edu.
Visit our website: Immigration Initiative at Harvard
