Application
Doctoral Fellow selection
for Academic Year 2015-2016
Eligibility
Harvard Ph.D. students who will be entering their second or third (G-2 or G-3) years of doctoral study in September 2015
are eligible to apply.
The Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy is designed for Harvard Ph.D. students in the social
sciences, including AAAS, Economics, Education, Government, Health Policy, Political Economy & Government,
Psychology, Public Policy, Sociology, and Social Policy. The curriculum focuses primarily on research from the disciplines
of economics, political science, sociology, and social policy. Students with an appropriate social science background from
these or other Harvard doctoral programs are eligible to apply.
What the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy is about
Please be sure to obtain the companion Inequality & Social Policy Doctoral Fellow program brochure. If the informational
brochure did not accompany this application, it may be obtained from the web: inequality.hks.harvard.edu
Application requires the following items
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Application form (3 pages)
Research statement (1000-1200 words)
Curriculum Vitae (2-page maximum)
Unofficial transcript (GSAS students: https://apps2.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/transcripts).
Two faculty letters of recommendation (May be emailed directly to: [email protected])
Students may submit their portion of the application as email attachments OR in hardcopy form:
Email (preferred): [email protected]
Please submit the application form, research statement, and CV as a single collated PDF document if possible. The
recommendation waiver forms may be submitted as separate attachments.
OR in hardcopy form:
Items should be assembled in order listed above (one paperclip is fine; please do NOT staple) and directed to:
Pamela L. Metz
Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street, Taubman 402 (Box 103)
Cambridge, MA 02138
Application deadline
Applications must be received by Monday, May 18, 2015.
For further information:
Contact the program office by e-mail ([email protected] ). Additional application forms and information may be
downloaded from the web: inequality.hks.harvard.edu
Application Form (page 1)
Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy
Application to Doctoral Fellows Program for Academic Year 2015-2016
Part I: Biographical Information
Female
Name ____________________________________
Last
___________________________
First
Ph.D. department ___________________________________
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Male
Middle
Current Ph.D. year (i.e., in AY 2014-2015): G-________
(e.g., G-1, G-2)
Primary research domain
Please select one or two domains to indicate your chief substantive interest(s). These are not meant to be rigid or mutually
exclusive categories.
Work, wages, and labor markets
Educational access and quality
Urban poverty and residential segregation
Crime and criminal justice
Family structure and parental roles
Political inequalities and social capital
Racial disparities, ethnicity, immigration
Institutions and comparative welfare state analysis
Synopsis of research interests
Please summarize your central research interests in a line or two.
Academic information
Please list most recent institution first. You need only list principal institutions of enrollment, not exchange programs or
summer coursework.
__________________________________ ____________________________ _____________ _____________
college/university
_________________________________________________________
college/university
major field(s)
degree program
date received (mm/yy)
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major field(s)
degree program
date received (mm/yy)
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college/university
major field(s)
degree program
date received (mm/yy)
Faculty members who will be providing a recommendation on your behalf
________________________________________________________ ____________________________________
Name
Department
________________________________________________________ ____________________________________
Name
Department
Application Form (page 2)
Citizenship
United States
U.S. Permanent Resident
Other (country: ______________________________________________________)
(Optional) For US Citizens and Permanent Residents: Race/Ethnicity
African American or Black
Asian American (country of family origin: ________________________________________________)
Mexican American
Puerto Rican
Other Latino/a or Hispanic (country of family origin: ________________________________________)
Native American (Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Other Pacific Islander, or American Indian)
White
Other: _________________________________________________________________________________)
Contact information
E-mail
__________________________________
Applicants will be notified of selection results
via e-mail by June 30, 2015
Any additional considerations
If there is anything unusual about your academic record or additional information that you feel the selection committee
should know, you may provide a brief paragraph here.
Part II: Research statement (Submit as a separate document)
Please discuss your reasons for wishing to participate as a fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social
Policy. Discuss your related academic work to date in research areas of interest to the program and your future research
plans in this area. (Your statement may be submitted as a separate document and should not exceed 1,200 words. Please use
single-spacing with an extra line break between paragraphs).
Tips: In general, the strongest applications tend to outline a compelling research agenda, with a clear question or set of
questions that might form the general basis for the student’s empirical research paper in the Inequality program. While the
selection committee recognizes that most applicants are still at an early stage, applicants are advised to approach the
statement much like a research proposal, outlining with as much specificity as possible why their interests constitute an
important area of inquiry, what preliminary hypotheses or ideas they have, and how they might go about investigating them.
Application Form (page 3)
Part III: Existing Financial Support Information
If your support consists of the standard six-year GSAS fellowship package, you may simply check this box.
(That is, tuition and stipend for G1-G2 years; tuition and TF for G3-G4 years; tuition for G5 year; and tuition and
dissertation completion fellowship for final year. This package may or may not include summer funding).
If your graduate fellowship support does not correspond to the standard six-year GSAS package described above, or if
you hold external fellowship resources, please identify these fellowships in the grid below. This would include
students who hold either external awards (e.g., NSF, Soros, Ford, Truman) or Harvard fellowships covering
additional stipend years. Please indicate G-years in which you anticipate fellowships will be used and the stipend
amounts.
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G-year
Tuition source
Stipend source
Stipend amount
G-1
G-2
G-3
G-4
G-5
G-6
G-7
Certification
In selecting yes, I certify that the information presented in my application is accurate, complete, and honestly presented.
No
Yes
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Name
Authorization to verify financial support information
Date
By checking this box, I authorize the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy to verify with my financial aid officer
the financial support I receive through Harvard University, including Harvard-administered grants and fellowships.
No
Yes