Tsunoda Senior Fellowship Program at Waseda University in Tokyo
Apply for the 2024-2025 Tsunoda Senior Fellowship Program at Waseda University in Tokyo
Deadline: April 18, 2024
Established in 1882, Waseda University [www.waseda.jp] is one of the leading research-intensive universities in Japan. It offers a broad menu of undergraduate, graduate, and graduate professional programs and has established the Tsunoda Fellowship to promote academic exchanges between the faculties of Columbia and Waseda. Fellows are provided with an apartment which can accommodate a family of 3-4 persons, a monthly subsistence allowance to cover living expenses, and one economy class ticket for themselves (not family members) to and from Japan for purposes of the fellowship program. It is a non-stipendiary award, and fellows are responsible for all other costs associated with the fellowship.
Fellowships may be awarded for any duration between one and twelve months. Faculty must be able to begin their fellowship during the academic year of the award, which runs from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025. Fellows must be in residence during the period in which they hold the fellowship.
During the period of the residency, fellows may be asked to give a lecture on a subject of their academic interests and will be expected at least once during the period of the fellowship to present the results of their current research. They may also be asked to hold informal talks or seminars with faculty and advanced graduate students who share their academic field or scholarly interests. They are not asked to offer formal instruction in the University.
Full-time faculty wishing to be considered for the fellowship should submit
- a copy of their CV
- a brief description (no more than two pages in length) that includes the faculty’s field of specialization, research proposal title, and an outline of the research they propose to do while in Tokyo;
- the name(s) of Waseda colleagues with whom they intend to work/interact while there (a database of Waseda faculty and their areas of expertise is available online);
- three ranked sets of dates of the proposed residency (top choice, 2nd and 3rd)
- a short letter of support from the chair of the applicant’s Columbia department.
Priority is given to scholars whose fields of study correspond broadly with those of Waseda faculty and whose research can be advanced by a physical presence in Japan and use of Japan’s archival, scholarly, and/or scientific resources. Fluency in the Japanese language is useful but not required.
The deadline for submitting applications for the 2024-2025 Tsunoda Fellowship is April 18, 2024. Applications should be submitted to the Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Programs via email at [email protected].