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THE ALBERT GALLATIN FELLOWSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
AT THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

The Albert Gallatin Fellowship in International Affairs was established in 1976 by the FERIS Foundation of America. The award for the coming academic year provides for up to nine months of study at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland by an American candidate for the Ph.D. who is actively engaged in dissertation research of the Doctorate within the field of International Relations.

ALBERT GALLATIN

The Fellowship is named in honor of Albert Gallatin, a native of Geneva, who came to this country in 1780 at the age of 19, and later was Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinets of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, where he played a leading role in the Louisiana Purchase. He was a negotiator of the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812, American Minister to France and Britain, a founder of New York University and one of the earliest students of American ethnography. His biographer, Raymond Walters, describes him as a "man unique and invaluable in any age or land, a superbly able and almost completely selfless public servant."

THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Since 1927, the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland has been a leading center for the study of international relations. It provides doctoral instruction in international law and politics, international economics, international institutions and international development. The Institute's multinational staff and student body, its use of English and French in all aspects of its program form the basis of a curriculum stressing independent work and research. It aims to provide students with an international perspective, essential if they are to teach international relations or international economics, follow careers in diplomacy or in the international civil service, work in political or economic journalism, or join multi-national companies at the management level. We thus especially welcome proposals that are multinational in scope.
The Institute maintains close working relations with many international governmental and non-governmental agencies and scholarly bodies in Geneva which deal with a wide variety of international problems, thus providing unique opportunities for doctoral research.

Candidates are urged to consult the Institute's catalogue to see how its lectures and seminars and the organizations with which it maintains working relations can best meet the needs of the research programs. It can be obtained by writing directly to: Secretariat, IUHEI, PO Box 36, 1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland.

PROVISIONS OF THE AWARD AND APPLICATION PROCESS

The Fellowship provides a stipend of $20,000 for nine months for living and other expenses for the October - June academic year and round trip travel from New York to Geneva.

Application forms which contain further information on the award and its requirements may be obtained from:
Allen Lynch, Director: al4u@virginia.edu
Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400167
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4167

al4u@virginia.edu

Applications, fully completed in six copies, should be sent to Allen Lynch at the above address. The closing date for receipt of applications is March 1.

It will be appreciated if candidates could give advance notice of their intention to apply. Submission of completed dossiers in advance of the above deadline would also be appreciated.

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