Applications accepted on a rolling basis up to March 16, 2026. Review of applications will begin on February 15. 

The DKU International Higher Education Fellowship is designed to offer an international experience to post-doctoral scholars or advanced doctoral students committed to teaching excellence, whose records demonstrate an interest in international higher education, educational innovation, and/or best practices in teaching and learning.  DKU Global Fellows teach at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) for the undergraduate program and gain first-hand experience working with a team of educational innovators in DKU’s Academic Strategy and Learning Innovation (ASLI) and Institute for Global Higher Education.

Successful applicants will receive a 2-year fellowship appointment that is non-renewable. Fellows are expected to teach one course in an area of interest and work within a team of faculty and staff by carrying out the following sorts of duties

• Strategic Operational Support: partner with the Dean of ASLI to operationalize ASLI’s strategic goals, including the planning and execution of key initiatives inside the unit.

• Policy & Process Optimization: analyze current institutional practices and draft refined policies or standard operating procedures to enhance organizational effectiveness and decision-making speed.

• Project Leadership: Independently initiate and manage special academic projects and events, exercising professional judgment to solve logistical challenges and ensure alignment with divisional priorities.

• Administrative Communication: Draft high-level strategic documentation, reports, and internal communications, serving as a key liaison to facilitate information flow between the Dean’s office and various academic units.

The Fellowship is contingent upon successful receipt of the appropriate type of Chinese visa. 

The award carries a $26,000 annual stipend ($34,000 for fellows who have completed their PhD), a $1,500 allowance for costs related to research or course preparation, travel costs to/from China, health insurance, and a housing allowance. 

Post-doctoral fellows or advanced doctoral students from all relevant disciplines are invited to apply.  

Eligibility for the DKU Global Fellows Program 

A.     Applicants must have recently completed a university doctoral program, or be full-time students, in good standing, in a university doctoral program and have advanced to doctoral candidate status at the time of application. Students who expect to complete their doctoral degree before the fellowship year begins are also welcome to apply. 

B.     Applicants should: 

a.        Have completed between 5 and 7 years of doctoral study at the time of application. 

c.        Expect to devote themselves full time to their fellowship during their time at DKU. Fellows may not undertake other teaching or research opportunities at DKU, Duke or elsewhere during the period of the fellowship. 

d.        if they have obtained a Ph.D., they must have done so within the past 5 years.
 

NOTE FOR DUKE APPLICANTS ONLY: When applicable, the DKU Global Fellows Program replaces other graduate school stipend and scholarship funding a student may have been scheduled to receive for the fellowship year. Eligibility for other funding cannot be “banked” for use in a subsequent year, though this should not limit a department’s internal funding structure. Fellows who receive offers for other awards should contact the Graduate School to determine whether the two awards may be held concurrently. The DKU Fellowship will cover tuition fees at Duke University for a semester. 

About DKU

DKU is a collaborative partnership of Duke University, Wuhan University and the Municipality of Kunshan, China (https://dukekunshan.edu.cn/).  Our campus provides an innovative and robustly interdisciplinary undergraduate liberal arts experience to a student body that will number 2200 students and 200+ faculty, with an acceptance rate of <8% and a student body represented by over 60 countries. We also offer a discrete number of Masters level graduate programs. The DKU pedagogical model draws on the best of Duke’s educational experience and resources to reimagine undergraduate instruction on an intimate campus setting.