2009 Oak Fellowship:Institute of International Human Rights, Colby College

The 2009 Oak Fellowship:Migration and Human Rights of Migrants Outside of the United States

Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights at Colby College

Oak Human Rights Fellowship Application

IMPORTANT DATES
Nominations Due November 1, 2008
Applications Due December 15, 2008
Decision Announced April 15, 2009
Fellowship Begins August 2009

About the Oak Fellowship
The Oak Fellowship annually offers an opportunity for one prominent practitioner in international human rights to take a sabbatical leave from front-line work to spend the fall semester (September - December) in residence at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. This provides the fellow time for respite, reflection, research, and writing. In addition to conducting his or her own research, the fellow will teach one seminar on his or her work area or expertise. Following the period of the award the fellow is expected to return home to continue human rights work.

The Oak Institute seeks one frontline human rights practitioner working on the human rights of migrants and laborers outside of the United States for residence at Colby in the fall of 2009 and is pleased to issue a call for nominations for the 2009 Oak Human Rights Fellowship.

Possible areas of human rights activity may include, but are not limited to: rights of displaced peoples and refugees; discrimination and unequal treatment of migrants; migrant workers' rights in both formal and informal markets; migrant land and resource struggles; resettlement; human trafficking and smuggling; economically motivated migration; asylum seekers; gender and sexual exploitation of migrants and refugees; or movement of seasonal workers.

We especially encourage applications from those who are currently or were recently involved in on-the-ground work at some level of personal risk and are in need of respite.

General Application Instructions

Please type or print clearly all requested information.

A complete application includes:

? A completed application form (all questions answered, sections I through III).
? A copy of your resume, biography or curriculum vitae (please give dates for all activities).
? Two recommendations from someone familiar with your work.
? Answers to all personal statement questions in section IV.
? Recommended: Printed information on your human rights organization (e.g., brochures, reports, newspaper stories, articles on your work and the work of your organization).

Please send application materials as early as possible. Applications received after December 15, 2009 or applications that are incomplete (i.e., do not include all of the required components) will not be considered.

Applicants should send all materials together at one time, except for recommendations which should come directly from the recommender.

You can simply type into this document. Then save the document and change the title to your last name, first name, OAK 2008 application. (An example of a document title would be: Sanchez, Nancy OAK 2008 application.)

Once your application is complete, please send it electronically to:
Professor Patrice Franko, Director
oakhr@colby.edu
In the subject line, please include: Oak Application, (your last name, your first name)

Please send any/all attachments at one time, either within 1 email message, or in multiple messages that are sent one immediately after the other. Please title each with your last name, first and a descriptor. For example: Sanchez, Nancy vita; Sanchez, Nancy press articles; Sanchez, Nancy, letter of recommendation. We always want to be able to find the documents associated with your name!

For those applicants who prefer to send a printed application,
please mail your complete application to:

Professor Patrice Franko
Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights
Colby College
4840 Mayflower Hill
Waterville ME 04901 USA.

Recommendations may arrive either electronically or in printed form.

Please note that the parameters of the Oak Fellowship are strict. You may find many answers to your questions about whether or not your situation meets the fellowship's criteria on the Frequently Asked Questions section of our website: http://www.colby.edu/oak

Please contact us by e-mail at oakhr@colby.edu or at (207) 859-5319 if you have any questions.

Application form(doc)