Call for Applications: 38 North Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program 2025-2026

38 North is a program on the Henry L. Stimson Heart, a nonpartisan coverage and analysis group targeted on worldwide safety points, primarily based in Washington, DC. 38 North is an authoritative supply of coverage and technical evaluation concerning North Korea’s inside and exterior affairs. It goals to facilitate an knowledgeable public coverage debate about peace and safety on the Korean Peninsula and supply policymakers, practitioners, and different stakeholders with knowledge and insights which will improve understanding of one of many world’s most advanced safety dilemmas.

For 3 many years, Stimson has been a number one voice on pressing international points. Based within the twilight years of the Chilly Warfare, the Stimson Heart pioneered sensible new steps towards stability and safety in an unsure world. At the moment, as adjustments in energy and expertise usher in a difficult new period, Stimson is on the forefront: Partaking new voices, producing modern concepts and evaluation, and constructing options to advertise worldwide safety, prosperity, and justice.

For extra details about Stimson, go to www.stimson.org.

PROGRAM GOAL AND SCOPE

The purpose of our program, “38 North Rising Students Fellowship Program 2025-26,” is to domesticate a subsequent technology of North Korea analysts by pairing mentors with fellows to equip rising students to suppose critically concerning the challenges that exist right this moment in learning North Korea. This program will not be about studying extra about North Korea generally. Moderately, fellows and mentors will interact in one-on-one coaching periods on particular analysis areas or methodologies of learning North Korea. By way of this, we intention to facilitate a lot wanted information switch from senior students or practitioners to the following generations within the areas of the chosen fellows’ curiosity.

This program is a deliberate effort to normalize intergenerational discourse over the standard “senior coverage specialists solely” discussions which can be prevalent on these points. Whereas some packages have allowed for rising students to “observe” senior coverage discussions, this program goals to combine up-and-coming specialists in additional significant methods—as audio system, discussants, and energetic members—and enhance the general public visibility of rising voices.

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES AND DELIVERABLES

Chosen fellows can be anticipated to:

Take part in at the very least six complete conferences with their mentor and submit written reflection notes after every assembly;
Write and publish at the very least one article on the 38 North web site;
Take part in a single public digital occasion in 2026 to current their findings and points pertinent to their discipline of curiosity; and
Attend an in-person, two-day workshop in Washington, DC in spring 2026 to share findings with their peer group and take part in discussions with authorities, army and different stakeholders and permit additional reflection on this system and their experiences working with the mentors.

ELIGIBILITY

We encourage candidates from all around the world. Eligible candidates should:

Be a graduate pupil, current graduate, or younger skilled underneath 40 years of age;
Be fluent in English; and
Have demonstrated expertise or curiosity in a related profession.

Korean proficiency is a plus, not a requirement.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

We’re inviting all eligible candidates to submit functions through ApplicantPro by 6:00 p.m. US Jap Time on Monday, April 14, 2025. Purposes should embody:

Assertion of curiosity explaining related expertise, analysis areas of curiosity, and what you hope to achieve from taking part in this system (500 phrases max);
A resumé or CV;
Names, affiliations and titles, and e-mail addresses of two references;
A listing of current publications (if relevant); and
A listing of Koreas- or Northeast Asia-related fellowship packages you might be presently enrolled in, or are planning to participate in over the following six months.

Chosen candidates can be notified by Could 12, 2025.

CONTACT

When you have additional questions, please e mail Iliana Ragnone at [email protected].