Undergraduate Research

Thanks to the generosity of Werner Weingartner, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will inaugurate the Weingartner Global Initiative this year.  The initiative creates a two-year term Professorship and funds two to six student research positions each year devoted to the study of crucial international issues.   In his/her role as mentor to the student recipients of Weingartner Fellowships, the Weingartner Professor will serve as their project advisor and involve them in his or her research project.  

The Charles Center will serve as the administrative home for this program.

Faculty members in Arts and Sciences with significant involvement in international studies are invited to apply.  To do so, please send the following items to Joel Schwartz, Charles Center, ATTN: Weingartner Professorship, no later than Monday, October 20, 2008:

1. a two-page letter describing your research and teaching in international studies and how you would involve students in a major research topic of international consequence;
2. one letter of recommendation from a colleague (either at the College or another institution)
3. A current c.v.

Terms of the Weingartner Professorship:

•  a two- year term, with duties to begin in Spring 2009
• a salary stipend of $5000 per year in 2009-10 and 2010-11, which may be held in combination with another position;
• stipends of $3,000 for each Weingartner Student Fellow in each of the two summers of the Professorship;
• $2,500 to be used at the Professor's discretion for materials, faculty or student conference travel, and other project-related expenses.