CISAC Fellowships

CISAC's Predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars and junior faculty can focus on a variety of security topics. Those could include nuclear weapons policy and nonproliferation; nuclear energy; cybersecurity, cyberwarfare and the future of the Internet; biosecurity and global health; insurgency, terrorism and homeland security; war and civil conflict; as well as global governance, migration and transnational flows, from norms to criminal trafficking.

We welcome other research proposals and will consider applicants from the U.S. and abroad. Applicants will be considered for all fellowships for which they are eligible.

CISAC is grateful for fellowship funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Stanton Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, as well as many individual donors.

Several Other Fellowships: 

Cybersecurity

Fellows may research the use of information technologies by organized crime and individual hackers, as well as the threat of cyberwarfare and the effectiveness of cybersecurity protections erected by the United States and other nations. They could also focus on privacy, restrictions by governments and the future of the Internet. 

Law and International Security

In collaboration with the Stanford Law School, CISAC offers two research fellowships on law and international security. The fellowships are open to lawyers, law students and scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural sciences and engineering who can use their technical knowledge from the public and private sectors, national laboratories and the military.

The Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship

These fellowships are designed to stimulate the development of the next generation of thought leaders in nuclear security by supporting research that will advance policy-relevant understanding of nuclear issues. It offers engineers, scientists, and social scientists an opportunity to focus on issues related to nuclear security. Fellows are expected to produce a research product, such as dissertation chapters, draft articles or a book manuscript, by the end of their fellowship year.

The MacArthur Nuclear Security Fellowship

The purpose of these fellowships is to promote training and policy-relevant scholarship in three interrelated areas: nuclear weapons policy in a changing global context; nuclear terrorism and translational flows of material and knowledge; and nuclear energy and proliferation challenges. The fellows take a field trip to a national laboratory and attend seminars, workshops and lectures. 

The William J. Perry Fellowship in International Security

This fellow resides at CISAC for a year of policy-relevant research on international security and cooperation issues. He or she will join other distinguished scientists, social scientists, and engineers who work together on security problems that cannot be solved within any single field of study.

Learn more about the CISAC Fellowship Program