Nomination Procedure

    Candidates are nominated for Junior Fellowships, generally by those under whom they have studied. Applications are not accepted from the candidates themselves. A letter of nomination should include an assessment of the candidate's work and promise, complete contact information for the candidate, including current residential addresss and email address, and the names, mailing addresses, and email addresses of three additional people who agree to write letters of recommendation by mid-September at the latest. Men and women interested in any field of study are eligible for these fellowships. Nominees should be of the highest calibre of intellectual achievement, i.e. comparable to the most successful candidates for junior faculty positions at leading universities.

    Upon receipt of the mailed nomination, the Society will request letters of recommendation from the referees listed, and ask the candidate to submit samples of written work (dissertation chapters, articles, papers) along with a one or two-page proposal describing the studies he or she would like to pursue while a Junior Fellow:

• The Society will request that the three additional letters of recommendation be submitted
    electronically - not by email, but through a link we will provide in our correspondence with
    the referees. After receipt of the nomination, the referees will be contacted by our office both by
    regular mail and email. (This is why full and accurate email addresses are necessary to process
    the nomination.) Full instructions for uploading letters will be provided to each referee, along with
    a password to enter the secure site.

• Our communication with the candidates will request that written materials be submitted both
    electronically through a link to our submission portal and by mail or express mail. Full instructions
    for uploading the C.V., list of publications, research proposal, and three samples of work
    will be provided, along with a password to enter the secure site.

• The candidate is requested to provide official transcripts of both undergraduate and graduate
    records. (Ideally, transcripts should be forwarded directly to the Society from the universities involved;
    however, candidates who have sealed transcripts may submit them with their mailed materials.)

    On the basis of the materials submitted, the Senior Fellows select a certain number of candidates for interview. It is from this number that the final selection is made. The Society pays the traveling expenses of those candidates interviewed.

Please note: If still pursuing the Ph.D., Junior Fellows should be at the dissertation stage of their theses and be prepared to finish their degrees within a year of becoming fellows. If already a recipient of the degree, they should not be much more than a year past the Ph.D. at the time the fellowship commences. Most Junior Fellows receive the Ph.D. just prior to the start of the fellowship.