Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program
Since 2015, the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program has supported high-caliber scholarship and research in the social sciences and humanities that address important and enduring issues confronting our society. The 2025 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows marks the second year of the program's focus on building a body of research focused on political polarization. Carnegie will commit up to $18 million to this effort over the three-year period.
The fellows aim to help Americans understand how and why our society has become so polarized and what can be done to strengthen social cohesion. Of the 26 fellows, one is a writer, and the rest are academics, including eight junior scholars and 17 senior scholars. Among them, 16 are employed by public universities, nine are employed by private universities. Selected from more than 300 nominations, the fellows each receive a stipend of $200,000, making it possible for them to devote their time to significant research and writing.
The criteria for their selection prioritized the originality and potential impact of the proposal, as well as the capacity to communicate the findings to a broad audience. The fellows were selected by a distinguished panel of jurors, chaired by Dame Louise Richardson, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, and comprised of scholars and academic and intellectual leaders from some of the nation’s most prominent educational institutions, foundations, and scholarly societies.
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program is a continuation of the mission of Carnegie Corporation of New York, as founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. Today the foundation works to reduce political polarization through philanthropic support for the issues that Carnegie considered most important: education, democracy, and peace.
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