Yehuda Elkana Fellows

The Yehuda Elkana Fellowship supports an outstanding early-career scholar who has successfully been admitted to a CEU doctoral program and who is pursuing advanced education and research in higher education policy.

The Fellow pursues a regular program of doctoral study and research in one of CEU’s departments or programs, for example, the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations; Sociology; History; Gender Studies; or other appropriate programs. Furthermore, the Yehuda Elkana Center for Teaching, Learning, and Higher Education Research supports the work of the doctoral fellows by organizing academic events, inviting guest speakers, providing additional opportunities for professional networking, and offering help with academic research and development processes.

Consistent with other CEU Doctoral Scholarships, the Yehuda Elkana Fellowship is awarded for a period of 48 months. It covers the full cost of tuition as well as a monthly stipend to assist with housing and living costs. More information can be found under CEU Doctoral Scholarships.

Applications and Deadline

To apply for the Yehuda Elkana Doctoral Fellowship, applicants need to submit a regular CEU application form for doctoral programs, along with a research proposal which lies within the academic subfield of higher education policy. 

The deadline is generally the beginning of February.

Please see the latest call for applications for further details.

Current Yehuda Elkana Fellows

  • Samuel Kiiru Dissertation topic: Career Knowledgeability: Agency-structure interplay in career self-management
  • Maryna Lakhno Dissertation topic: Universities: Local Agents of Global Changes. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a Policy Framework for Higher Education
  • Nadia Manzoni Preliminary dissertation topic: European University Alliances as policy implementors, policy actors and agenda setters in the EU higher education policy arena
  • Antigona Uka Preliminary dissertation topic: The Evolution of Institutional Change, ICT Development Policies, and Global Influences: The Case of Higher Education in the Western Balkans 

Former Yehuda Elkana Fellows

  • Daniela Craciun Dissertation topicSystematizing National Higher Education Internationalization Strategies: Reconceptualizing a Process
  • Renata Kralikova Dissertation topic: Transition legacies, rules of appropriateness and ‘modernization agenda’ translation in higher education governance in Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia 
  • Adrienn Nyircsak Dissertation topic: Reflexivity in European Higher Education Governance
  • Elizaveta Potapova Dissertation topic: Making Sense of Academic Freedom in Russia
  • Norbert Sabic Dissertation topic: Diversification of higher education in Europe. A policy narrative that legitimizes resource concentration
  • Simona Torotcoi  Dissertation topic: From International Commitments to Institutional Reality – The Case of Higher Education Policy in Europe
  • Omar Abozeid Dissertation topic: Career Knowledgeability: Agency-structure interplay in career self-management