Applications Invited for 2022-2023 Berkman Klein Fellowship Program

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About the Organization

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is dedicated to exploring, understanding, and shaping the development of the digitally-networked environment. A diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, technologists, policy experts, and advocates, we seek to tackle the most important challenges of the digital age while keeping a focus on tangible real-world impact in the public interest. Our faculty, fellows, staff and affiliates conduct research, build tools and platforms, educate others, form bridges and facilitate dialogue across and among diverse communities.

About the Fellowship

The Berkman Klein Center’s fellowship program provides an opportunity for innovative thinkers and changemakers to come together to hone and share ideas, find camaraderie, and spawn new initiatives. The program encourages and supports fellows in an inviting and playful intellectual environment with community activities designed to foster inquiry and risk-taking; to identify and expose common threads across fellows’ individual activities; and to bring fellows into conversation with the students, staff, faculty, and broader community at the Berkman Klein Center. From their diverse backgrounds and wide-ranging physical and virtual travels, Berkman Klein Center fellows bring fresh ideas, skills, passion, and connections to the Center and our community, and from their time spent in Cambridge, they help build and extend new perspectives and activities back out into their home networks, communities, and fields. Fellows appointed through this open call come into their fellowship with a personal research agenda, a set of ambitions, and a sense of the public scholarship and community interactions they wish to foster while at the Center.

Eligibility

We invite applications from people whose work on Internet and society may overlap with ongoing work at the Berkman Klein Center and may expose our community to new opportunities and approaches. We welcome applications from people who feel that a year as a fellow in our variegated community would accelerate their efforts and contribute to their ongoing personal and professional development.

We encourage applications from scholars, practitioners, innovators, engineers, artists, and others committed to understanding and advancing the public interest. Fellows come from across the disciplinary spectrum and different life paths.

• Some fellows are academics. For the 2022-2023 year, we invite academics who are post-docs or professors. Please note that in the 2022-2023 academic year we are not welcoming students into our fellowship cohort. (We will spend the year focused on supporting Harvard students through other types of programming, and may solicit applications from students from other institutions through other efforts, such as our research sprints.)
• Some fellows are practitioners who have built their careers outside of academia, including technologists, entrepreneurs, lawyers, policymakers, activists, journalists, educators, and others from various sectors and callings.
• Many fellows wear multiple hats and straddle different pursuits at the intersections of their capacities. Fellows might be starting, rebooting, driving forward in, questioning, or pivoting from their established careers.
• For the 2022-2023 year, we will prioritize and select for fellows who have a demonstrated record of contributing to public and scholarly conversations in their area of study.
• Fellows are committed to spending their fellowship in concert with others, guided by a heap of kindness, a critical eye, and generosity of spirit.

The fellowship selection process is a multi-dimensional mix of art and science, based on considerations that are specific to each applicant and to the composition of the full fellowship class.

How to Apply

Applications will be submitted online through the Berkman Klein Application Tracker at: http://brk.mn/2223apply.

PDF attachments you will be required to upload include the following. Please consider this information carefully and ensure your attachments meet these requirements:

• A current resume or C.V.
• A personal statement that responds to the following three questions. Responses to each question should be between 250-500 words; the personal statement should not exceed 1500 words total.

What is the research you propose to conduct during a fellowship year? Please

• describe the problems are you trying to solve;
• outline the methods which might inform your research; and
• tell us about the public interest and/or the communities you aim to serve through your work.
• Why is the Berkman Klein Center the right place for you to do this work? Please share thoughts on:
• how the opportunity to engage colleagues from different backgrounds -- with a range of experiences and training in disciplines unfamiliar to you -- might stimulate your work; and
• the skills, connections, and insights you are uniquely suited to contribute to the Center’s community and activities.

How does your personal background inform and influence your research?

• A PDF of 1-3 work samples for a public audience, such as articles, op-eds, events, etc. Ideally, these should connect to the project proposal in some way, or help to demonstrate the feasibility of the project proposal. Please submit these samples as one combined PDF. Do not include more than three samples; we will only review the first three samples.

Applicants should ensure that their names are included on each page of their application materials.

Application questions you will be asked to answer directly within the Application Tracker:

• Title of your fellowship proposal
• Does your research align with one of the areas of interest outlined in the call for applications? This initial selection will help us to support building connections among fellows and between fellows and ongoing work at BKC, but is of course not meant to constrain future research and exploration.
• Is there a Berkman Klein Faculty Director whose research or teaching interests align with yours? If so, please select the Director from the list.
• If you selected a particular Faculty Director, please briefly describe how your work and interests connects to that Director’s. [optional]
• Current primary affiliation or organization
• In what sector do you primarily work?
• If from within academia, what will your status be during the 2022-2023 year?
• What is your primary discipline?
• If you have one, what is your secondary discipline? [optional]
• Country of national origin
• Current country of residency
• In the 2022-2023 year, we expect that fellows will approach their fellowship and its research as a full-time job. How will you fund your fellowship?
• If you will have external funding, please describe the source and associated commitments.
• Previous involvement in Berkman Klein Center programs [optional]
• Any additional information you'd like to share with us [optional]
• Demographic data [optional]

Deadline

Monday, January 31, 2022

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