What We Do

The Center for Engaged Scholarship supports emerging scholars whose research engages consequential questions and contributes to a more democratic, equitable, and sustainable society.

Our dissertation fellowship is the Center’s flagship program. In addition to its dissertation fellowship, the Center supports emerging scholars across the United States through dissertation writing workshops, small research and professional development grants, and grants that support scholar-led organizing, community engagement, and other initiatives that connect scholarship to broader movements for social change.

OUR FELLOWSHIP

The CES Dissertation Fellowship provides emerging scholars with the time and resources to complete ambitious, engaged research.

Each fellowship provides a stipend for a nine-month period, allowing doctoral candidates to devote themselves to completing their dissertations and advancing scholarship that addresses important social, political, cultural, and environmental questions.

CES fellows join a growing national community of scholars working across the humanities and social sciences. We support scholarship that is rigorous in its methods, ambitious in its intellectual scope, and engaged with the world beyond the academy.

OUR WORK

We support scholarship that connects rigorous academic inquiry with consequential questions facing society.

Engaged scholarship takes many forms. It may deepen our understanding of democracy, inequality, race and gender, migration, education, environmental sustainability, human rights, political movements, or other pressing issues. It may challenge established assumptions, introduce new questions, bridge disciplinary boundaries, or bring scholarly knowledge into conversation with communities and publics beyond the university.

CES supports scholars in pursuing this work while maintaining the highest standards of intellectual rigor.

OUR GOAL

We believe scholarship can be both intellectually rigorous and meaningfully engaged with the world.

CES seeks to expand the possibilities of academic scholarship by supporting researchers who are willing to ask difficult questions, engage complex problems, and consider how their work might contribute to public understanding and social change.

We seek to create the conditions in which scholars can pursue ambitious research that is intellectually rigorous, socially consequential, and capable of reaching audiences beyond the academy.

SUPPORT CES

Your support makes this work possible.

Contributions to CES provide critical resources for emerging scholars and help us expand opportunities for the next generation of engaged researchers.

Your support allows CES to invest directly in scholars at a pivotal stage of their careers while building a stronger national community committed to rigorous, consequential scholarship. Please click here to make a donation today.