Host a Threatened Scholar at your Institution with Fellowship Support from IIE

The IIE Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) is seeking academic positions at colleges, universities, and research centers around the world for 16 threatened IIE-SRF scholars from Colombia, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Uzbekistan in order that they may continue their academic work in safety.

The IIE-Scholar Rescue Fund awards yearlong academic fellowships to scholars who are facing threats to their lives and academic work in their home countries. With matching funds and/or in-kind support, partner academic institutions offer visiting positions to these professors, researchers, and public intellectuals to allow them to continue to teach, write, or research, pending improved conditions that would permit their safe return home. Fellowships may be renewed for a second year.

The scholars below have been awarded grants of up to $25,000 for a visiting position. IIE-SRF seeks interested host partners able to invite the scholars with matching support (financial, direct and in-kind) that is equal to or greater than the fellowship award:

A Colombian historian / sociologist researching armed conflict
An Ethiopian agricultural entomologist
Two Iranians specializing in: philosophy and sexuality / queer studies; sociology and development
Ten Syrian scholars specializing in: aerospace engineering; agricultural economics; applied linguistics and French; computer engineering and artificial intelligence; computer science and applied mathematics; database and information systems; ecology and forestry; economics (2); theoretical physics and quantum mechanics
An Uzbek art historian

In addition, an Iraqi scholar specializing in accounting has been awarded a grant of up to $32,500 for a visiting position. Matching and in-kind support is encouraged.