Fulbright Canada Offering 3 Fellowships in Economics

Fulbright Canada is offering 3 grants in Economics for the 2021-2022 academic year. See the full announcement below for full details:
 

These opportunities are for a start date of September 2021 or January 2022 and applications are accepted through September 15th, 2020. 
 

Highlighted awards for you and your colleagues:

Research Chair in Behavioral and Experimental Social Sciences, University of Calgary

Research Chair in Environmental, Resource, Energy Economics, University of Calgary

Research Chair in Environment and Economy, University of Ottawa

See below all the Fulbright Canada Research Chairs in:

·  Arts, Humanities, and Culture
·  Business and Management
·  Economics
·  Education
·  Environmental Studies 
·  Food Studies
·  Health Studies
·  Indigenous Studies
·  Northern Issues- Postdoctoral Research
·  Public Affairs in North America Studies
·  Policy, Law, and Governance
·  Language Culture & Identity
·  Science and Technology
·  Field Open
There is also a series of Distinguished Chairs offered for 9 Months by Carleton University in Ottawa in the following topics:
·  Arts and Social Sciences in Canada and North America
·  Entrepreneurship
·  Environmental Science
·  Public Affairs in North America: Society, Policy, Media
·  Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Eligibility requirements

·  Be U.S. citizen (Permanent residence is not sufficient)
·  Hold a Ph.D., LLM, MFA, etc. or equivalent professional/terminal degree
·  Applicants who have resided abroad for five or more consecutive years in the six-year period preceding the application deadline are ineligible. A period of nine months or more during a calendar year constitutes a full year.
·  Recipients of a Fulbright Scholar award are eligible to apply for another award two years after the date of completion of the previous award.
Detailed Eligibility requirements are available here.

Application Components
·  The application portal is available here, for the application, no project budget is required, the main pieces of your application are:

Project Statement

Up to 5 pages

CV/Resume

Up to 6 pages

Letters of Recommendation

Two

Bibliography

Required for Research and Teaching/Research awards, up to 3 pages

Syllabi/course outlines

Required for Teaching and Teaching/Research awards, up to 10 pages

Letter of Invitation

Only for the Field Open Awards

Language proficiency

English

 
  
Review Criteria
 

·  Applicant training, background, and experience:
The applicant possesses the training, credentials, and active professional standing, as appropriate for their project, discipline, and career path, and meets all stated requirements for the award, including language proficiency (if applicable).
 
·  Quality of the project:
The project is feasible, original, well-designed, innovative, and demonstrates relevance and currency to the discipline.
 
·  Project’s potential impact, outcome, and benefits:
The project demonstrates a broad, sustainable impact beyond the length of the award period and clearly describes plans to disseminate results.
 
·  Personal qualities:
The applicant displays an ability to be adaptable, culturally sensitive, collegial, and can serve as a cultural ambassador for the U.S.

 
Join the more than 600 Fulbright Canada alumni and consider applying for one of our awards!
 
Interested in more information on the awards?  
See a booklet with the full list of Awards
See a 4-minute video presentation about our opportunities and a 10-minute video on the different awards.
See here for Spotlight on Canada: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Opportunities Webinar  
You can see here the U.S. Scholar Application Walk Through Webinar