Applications are now open for the Carr Center's 2025–2026 fellowship cohorts! We invite individuals dedicated to advancing human rights through scholarship or practice to apply for one of our year-long fellowships. Whether you're a post-doc, scholar, academic on sabbatical, human rights defender, senior leader in international organizations, or head of a human rights organization, we want you to be part of a cohort where fellows can form valuable intellectual partnerships to support their work. Ideal candidates actively invest time and energy in building a community with fellow cohort members.
We encourage fellows to actively participate in the Center's programs, such as public lectures, study groups, conferences, workshops, and more. All fellowship terms are one academic year (September 1-June 30). Applications for all fellowships are due January 5, 2025.
Carr Center Fellowship
The Carr Center welcomes applications from individuals seeking to affiliate for a year as Carr Center Fellows. Fellows can focus on research and writing, auditing classes, meeting faculty and other experts, leading study groups for students, and participating in other learning opportunities at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Learn more about the Carr Center Fellowship.
Racial Justice Fellowship
The Racial Justice Program focuses on reimagining systems, institutions, and movements to promote racial and economic equity for all. We seek to attract a diverse group of fellows from different disciplines and sectors (academia, business, technology, civil society, human rights organizations, public interest technologists, and independent researchers and practitioners) who would like to design and develop a research project salient to their own expertise and the research priorities of the Center.
Learn more about the Racial Justice Fellowship.
Technology & Human Rights Fellowship
The Carr Center's Technology and Human Rights Fellowship is a key initiative exploring how technological progress will shape the future of human life and impact human rights protections. The 2025–2026 Technology & Human Rights Fellowship cohort will be composed of scholars and practitioners who work on the theme of “Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy: Who Knows, Who Decides?” This fellowship is jointly directed by Mathias Risse and Shoshana Zuboff.