Visiting Fellowship
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The South Asia Program Visiting Fellowship is a year-long research fellowship combining professional development in research, writing, and public presentation skills. Annual cohorts spend ten months conducting research in their home countries and one month in Washington, DC, gaining extensive exposure to regional and international policymaking communities. Since 1993, the South Asia Program has offered the Visiting Fellowship to outstanding analysts, scholars, and researchers in India and Pakistan. Former fellows have gone on to senior leadership positions in think tanks, academia, media houses, and government.
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Applications for the 2026 Visiting Fellowship are closed.
The Stimson Center South Asia Program’s Visiting Fellowship is designed for outstanding analysts, scholars, students, and researchers in India and Pakistan who are dedicated to the study of strategic and security issues in the subcontinent.
This fellowship combines professional development of research, writing, and public presentation skills with extensive exposure to the D.C. policy community. Visiting Fellows will develop a research project while meeting with senior scholars and analysts working on South Asian security issues at universities and think-tanks, as well as leading practitioners in the U.S. government. They also contribute analysis to SAV throughout the one-year period.
Fellows are selected based on criteria such as the quality of their research proposal, research and writing aptitude, and fit with the Stimson Center’s research interests. Frequent, high-quality contributors to SAV will be given special consideration.
2026 Visiting Fellowship Cohort
Perspectives from Our Visiting Fellows
Research by South Asia Program Visiting Fellows
