The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites applications from junior scholars from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations for its 2021-2022 Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship program. The JPB Foundation has generously funded this initiative.

The proposal deadline is August 15, 2021.

Proposals are invited from Ph.D.-holding poverty scholars from racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in academia.  Applicants must currently hold a tenure-track university appointment in any discipline or field but have not yet earned tenure. They must show evidence of research experience in areas relevant to poverty, low-income populations, or related social policy, as well as the potential to produce rigorous research to inform policies and programs to combat poverty and/or its effects.

IRP anticipates providing five Fellows with $60,000 in flexible funding over a two-year award period beginning in early fall 2021.  IRP will match each Fellow with a senior poverty scholar mentor for each year of their fellowship.

Funding
Fellowships may be used for a wide range of professional development activities, including:

• • engaging in substantive and methodological training;
• • travel for data collection, collaboration, or research presentation;
• • funding research assistants;
• • securing release time from teaching; or
• • summer salary support

IRP will separately provide travel funding for Fellows to attend three in-person meetings over the course of the fellowship as well as visit IRP, other institutions from the U.S. Collaborative of Poverty Centers (CPC), and/or their mentor’s home institution once per year during the two-year funding period.

Please see the attached call for more information and application instructions or read more on our website. Direct questions to irpapply@ssc.wisc.edu

*Includes the following racial/ethnic groups: (a) African American or Black; (b) American Indian or Alaskan Native; (c) Hispanic/Latino; (d) Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laotian, or Hmong; and (e) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. Preference will be given to those who are also of the first generation in their family to achieve a college degree.