The Cold War Archival Research Institute (CWAR) Graduate Fellows Program
Call for Applications, deadline – 15 September 2025
The CWAR Institute at Oxford University uses innovative and collaborative approaches to train next generation Cold War historians in archival research methodologies. The institute has two goals: to stimulate original scholarship on the interplay between soft and hard power in the cold and hot wars between 1945 and 1991, and to demonstrate the power of cooperative scholarship through innovative archival practices.
The two-semester long CWAR Institute fellowship program trains M.A. and Ph.D. level students through a combination of online seminars, discussions, and in-person research experience at Cold War archives, culminating in conferences and publications. Competitively selected applicants will join the institute as CWAR Fellows to hone critical research skills in historical and archival methodologies, further their own research agendas in Cold War history, improve their communication and presentation skills, and develop a network of supportive professional contacts. Fortnightly meetings begin in October 2025 and run until the conference in July 2026.
The CWAR Institute moved from the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars to Wolfson College, Oxford University in the summer of 2025. It builds on the success of the Cold War Archives Research Fellowship previously organized by the European Institute at Columbia University and the Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research (SICAR) previously organized by the Wilson Center and The George Washington University.
Click here to learn more about the CWAR Institute and to apply for the 2025-26 fellowship cycle: https://cwar-institute.org/
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