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John Carroll, the former editor of the Los Angeles Times, will be a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) during the spring semester. The Shorenstein fellowship program appoints up to six distinguished journalists, scholars, and policy makers each semester to explore a topic concerning the relationship between the mass media and politics. Fellows must produce a final paper and are encouraged to attend seminars at the center and give public lectures. Carroll offers unparalleled expertise in the newspaper business, according to Alex S. Jones, the Shorenstein Center?...
Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute announced yesterday the appointment of 19 fellows for the new academic year, recognizing scholars at academic institutions for achievement in the fields of African and African American Studies. The year-long fellowship allows them to pursue their own projects using Harvard’s resources.“We look for fellowship candidates who are exemplary scholars in their field,” said Lisa Gregory, senior fellow and academic officer at the Du Bois Institute. “The field of African and African American Studies is very broad and interdisciplinary...
...Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Iraq are arriving at Harvard this week to join two visiting fellows as a part of the Scholars at Risk (SAR) Program, a program that allows scholars facing persecution in their home countries to conduct research at universities in safety. The SAR fellowship network, which began in 2000 at New York University, first placed scholars at Harvard in 2001. Under the direction of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, the Harvard program has thus far invited 10 scholars to Cambridge. This year, the program will fund an unprecedented six scholars, whereas previous years...
...professorship that allows “American scholars of the highest distinction” to lecture at Oxford for one year. Frederick Schauer, Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the KSG, will serve as a visiting professor for the 2007-08 academic year, and will concurrently hold a fellowship at Balliol College at Oxford. Schauer, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the First Amendment, political theory, and constitutional law, said he first learned of his candidacy for the position when the faculty at Harvard Law School (HLS) selected him as their nominee...
...glad that the new policy has been implemented before this year’s round of fellowship applications,” said Proud Dzambukira ’07, who led the online petition last spring...