Graduate Fellowship:
Now Accepting Applications
GRADUATE FELLOWS Program
The Center for Justice, Law, and Societies (CJLS) invites applications for 4–6 Graduate Fellow positions for academic year 2025–26. CJLS is an interdisciplinary group of scholars focusing on the creation, implementation, and real-world applications of law. We welcome applications from graduate students in all colleges at UMass Amherst who have a strong interest in further exploring the legal dimensions of their own work (e.g., law and history, law and psychology, law and social science, law and literature, law and public health, law and environment, law and science, law and technology, etc.).
Fellows will serve a one-year term that prioritizes professionalization and mentorship. Please note that this fellowship does not not take the place of a full time TAship or RAship and is geared towards PhD students.
Benefits of the Fellowship Include:
Fellowship Requirements:
Please contact Fellowship Directors Jamie Rowen ([email protected]), Lauren McCarthy ([email protected]), or Tania Lopez Do Carmo ([email protected]) with questions.
Fellows will serve a one-year term that prioritizes professionalization and mentorship. Please note that this fellowship does not not take the place of a full time TAship or RAship and is geared towards PhD students.
Benefits of the Fellowship Include:
- Assignment to one or two faculty mentors from another department or school.
- Funding to attend an interdisciplinary law-related conference (Law & Society Association; Law, Culture and Humanities, or another law-related conference subject to the approval of the fellowship director). This funding will include coverage of each Fellow’s flight, hotel room, conference registration fee (including membership fees, if required for registration), up to $1000.
- Support from a community of interdisciplinary faculty and graduate students to develop an academic project (article, comp, or dissertation chapter) related to justice, law, and societies (broadly construed).
- Funding and support to invite a faculty member from the UMass, the five colleges, or the broader Northeast to participate in the Five College Law, Justice, and Societies speaker series.
Fellowship Requirements:
- Attend in-person Justice, Law, and Societies workshop lunch meetings approximately six times each semester. Meetings will be held from 12-1 pm on either Wednesdays or Fridays. Note that missing more than one meeting per semester without prior approval of the fellowship director, will disqualify a student from the Fellowship.
- Present your Fellowship project (at any stage) at one of the ‘25–26 workshop meetings.
- Meet with your mentors twice per semester to discuss your Fellowship project, professionalization/job questions, and as well learn about interdisciplinary communities that interest you
- Recruit a faculty speaker for the Five College Law, Justice, and Societies speaker series
- Attend and present at a law-related conference during (or with permission from the Fellowship Director, immediately following) the fellowship year
Please contact Fellowship Directors Jamie Rowen ([email protected]), Lauren McCarthy ([email protected]), or Tania Lopez Do Carmo ([email protected]) with questions.