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The Open Society Fellowship is designed to support individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges.
The Open Society Fellowship is no longer accepting applications. This page will be updated with any new information on upcoming grant cycles. Inquiries can be directed to osfellows@opensocietyfoundations.org.
Purpose and Priorities
The Open Society Fellowship was founded in 2008 to support individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to fundamental open society challenges. The fellowship funds work that will enrich public understanding of those challenges and stimulate far-reaching and probing conversations within the Open Society Foundations and in the world.
Open Society fellows produce work outputs of their own choosing, such as a book, journalistic or academic articles, art projects, a series of convenings, etc. In addition, fellowship cohorts may develop a joint work product of some sort. Fellowship staff will assist cohorts in brainstorming possible outputs if needed.
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Michael Sfard
2014Michael Sfard, an attorney specializing in international humanitarian law and human rights, was examining the last four decades of human rights litigation in Israel on issues related to the occupied Palestinian territories. -
Prashant Sharma
2014Prashant Sharma, an expert in governance and development, was examining whether public–private partnerships are accountable to citizens in India. -
Andrew Feinstein
2010Andrew Feinstein is the author of ‘The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade,’ a major history of the international weapons trade after the Cold War. -
Arun Kundnani
2010Arun Kundnani is a British writer and human rights activist who examined the shortcomings of the “hearts-and-minds” approach to militancy among Muslims in the United States and the United Kingdom. -
Hisham Aidi
2010Hisham Aidi, a political scientist, will look at how governments in Europe and North America use culture to “integrate” their Muslim communities. -
Howard French
2010Former ‘New York Times’ correspondent Howard French wrote an in-depth, journalistic account of Chinese migration to Africa in the past decade. -
Ike Okonta
2010Ike Okonta, a political analyst and writer, will study the failure of democratic and civic institutions in Nigeria almost four decades after the end of the bloody civil war in Biafra. -
James Stewart
2010Open Society Fellow James Stewart is writing a manual setting out the legal basis for prosecuting arms vendors for complicity in international crimes, such as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. -
Jian Yi
2010As an Open Society Fellow, Chinese filmmaker Jian Yi founded the IFChina Original Studio, an innovative community art center in Ji’an, Jiangxi, China. -
Ken Silverstein
2010Journalist Ken Silverstein will look at bribery and graft in international energy markets. -
Kung Li
2010As an Open Society Fellow, litigator and human rights activist Kung Li traveled across the American South to record stories of resiliency from embattled communities. -
Marcy Westerling
2010Open Society Fellow Marcy Westerling was a community organizer who mapped progressive infrastucture in rural areas. -
Noy Thrupkaew
2010An an Open Society Fellow, Noy Thrupkaew investigated the largest human trafficking cases in the United States, which involve hundreds of Thai farmers and Indian metalworkers. -
Rabab el-Mahdi
2010As an Open Society Fellow, political scientist Rabab el-Mahdi studied the prospects for democratization and social change in the Arab world.
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