Mershon Center Residency Grant
Mershon Center Residency Grant supports scholars and practitioners in extended visits for focused exchange with Ohio State’s Mershon community to advance security studies and sustained dialogue.
Funder: Ohio State University
Due Dates: Rolling (Residency proposals)
Funding Amounts: Partial funding may be offered; residency length is negotiable based on the opportunity and available resources
Summary: Supports extended visits by scholars or practitioners for focused exchange with Ohio State’s Mershon community on security issues.
Key Information: Collaborative projects must include principal investigators from more than one Ohio State unit.
Description
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University supports residencies that bring a scholar or practitioner into extended engagement with its community, beyond a lecture or conference. Residents may engage broadly with faculty and students, but the central purpose is focused exchange with Mershon community members that benefits both sides. Residencies must advance the Center’s mission and provide collective benefit to Mershon, Ohio State, and security studies.
The Center supports research at the intersections of international, national, and human security, including diplomacy, conflict, peacemaking, governance, and cooperative problem-solving. It emphasizes human and social rather than technical dimensions of complex problems. Interdisciplinary, collaborative, and engaged research, including work with clear policy or practice implications, is encouraged. Traditional scholarship is also welcome when researchers bring it into active dialogue with the Mershon community.
