Brazil Research Program for Advanced Doctoral Students
This program is designed to encourage academic exchange among advanced doctoral students between social science and humanities departments at Northwestern University and various universities in Brazil. Host institutions agree to waive tuition and other fees for participating students.  Students would be otherwise financed (stipend, heath insurance, travel, etc.) by their home institution or government in the case of Brazilian students participating in the “sandwich year” program.  Visitors to Northwestern would be “non-degree students” and could enroll in graduate seminars in the host department, subject to instructor approval, and would be expected to participate in the ongoing activities of the Program in Comparative-Historical Social Science (CHSS) or the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS).

To facilitate the participation of Northwestern students in this exchange, students can use their university fellowship to provide release from teaching responsibilities.  To be eligible, Northwestern students must have passed their qualifying exams and be advanced to candidacy before the start of their stay abroad.  Final fellowship approval is contingent on acceptance of the student by the partner institution in Brazil.

The admission materials required of Brazilian students applying to Northwestern would include:
-- a curriculum vitae;
-- a five page research proposal, including an indication of the applicants preferred departmental and programmatic affiliation (CHSS or LACS);
-- two letters of recommendation;
-- a graduate transcript;
-- proof of competence in written and spoken English.

Admission would also be contingent on acceptance into the Brazilian “sandwich” program.

 For more information on this exchange program, please contact Professor Ben Ross Schneider at brs@northwestern.edu.