2026-2027 Sang-Kee Kim Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Sang-Kee Kim Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Affairs for East and Southeast Asia is hosted by Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The postdoctoral fellowship is administered through the Weatherhead Scholars program and places fellows within a multidisciplinary cohort of postdoctoral researchers, visiting faculty, and practitioner fellows in residence at Harvard for the academic year. During the fellowship year, I will work under the Director of the Weatherhead Scholars Program, Walid Hammam, and the Director of the Weatherhead Center, Melani Cammett.
The postdoctoral fellowship will serve as a dissertation-to-book fellowship. My primary responsibility is to secure a book contract with a university press and revise my dissertation, Cold War Citadel, into a publishable manuscript. During my year in residence at Harvard University, I will present my work, participate in research clusters, and attend academic talks hosted by the Weatherhead Center.
The Weatherhead Center was originally founded in 1958 as the Center for International Affairs by the State Department of Policy Planning Staff, Robert Richardson Bowie, at the invitation of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, McGeorge Bundy. Noted Harvard scholars such as Henry Kissinger and Thomas Schelling quickly joined the CFIA, transforming the center into a hub for international affairs in the United States. Today, the Weatherhead Center has expanded into twelve of Harvard’s fourteen schools and supports over two hundred faculty affiliates, graduate students, visiting scholars, and postdoctoral researchers.
