Perry World House-Foreign Affairs Emerging Scholars Policy Prize
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Perry World House, the University of Pennsylvania’s hub for global policy research, is partnering with Foreign Affairs, the preeminent outlet for analysis and debate of foreign policy, economics, and global affairs, for the 2022 Perry World House-Foreign Affairs Emerging Scholars Policy Prize.
This $10,000 prize encourages scholars to translate their own academic work to be more accessible to policymakers in positions of influence and to advance policy debates on significant issues in global affairs. The prize recognizes outstanding, original essays on any topic related to international issues that draw on original academic research and intend to influence policy debates. The deadline for the prize has now been extended to June 12, 2022.
The goal of the prize is to encourage new voices with new ideas on addressing both the long-standing and new challenges the world faces. To that end, we encourage scholars from ALL disciplines to apply. Scholars should submit original essays between 4,000 and 5,000 words, based on their academic scholarship. Submissions should be written in a format and style appropriate for publication in Foreign Affairs.
Prizes will be selected based on their overall excellence and alignment with Perry World House’s two research themes, which are:
- Global Shifts: Migration, Urbanization, and Climate Change. The Global Shifts research theme examines these phenomena, highlights the specific challenges their intersections produce, and charts a path that allows for the best global policy responses to emerge.
- The Future of the Global Order: Power, Technology, and Governance. The Future of the Global Order theme examines implications of changing global power dynamics, impacts of new technologies, and contributions of governance institutions for the future of international cooperation.
Each winner will receive an award of $10,000 from Perry World House. Perry World House encourages prize winners to use the prize to advance their academic research and policy impact. Each prize winner will also have her/his/their essay published by Foreign Affairs online and/or in print.
If you have any questions about the Prize, email worldhouse@pwh.upenn.edu with the subject line “Perry World House-Foreign Affairs Emerging Scholars Policy Prize.”
Applications should be in English and include:
- The prize essay (can be single authored or co-authored);
- The underlying academic scholarship the prize essay is based on (formats can include a published or forthcoming article/chapter, unpublished academic manuscripts, etc.); and
- CV.
A panel of judges will select the overall winners. Submissions will be judged on policy relevance, writing quality, the importance of the policy challenge, the feasibility of its policy recommendations, and the quality of the underlying academic scholarship. Applications will now be accepted until June 12, 2022 at http://apply.interfolio.com/98496.
Eligibility is open to emerging scholars from around the world, including scholars at the University of Pennsylvania.
- This includes junior faculty, postdocs, and advanced Ph.D. candidates. (Tenured faculty are not eligible.)
- Other scholars are eligible to apply if they completed the relevant terminal degree in their field of study in 2015 or after (for example, a J.D., M.A., M.S., M.P.H., ).
- One submission per person. Submissions can be co-authored, as can the underlying piece of academic scholarship. All co-authors must satisfy the eligibility requirements. If a co-authored submission receives the prize, the authors will split the award equally.
Perry World House is the University of Pennsylvania’s hub for global engagement. It is a center for scholarly inquiry, teaching, research, international exchange, policy engagement, and public outreach on pressing global issues. To learn more about Perry World House, go to: https://global.upenn.edu/perryworldhouse.
Foreign Affairs is the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. To learn more about Foreign Affairs, go to: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/.