The Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology (CSINT) is seeking applications for the 2024-25 CSINT Fellows Program. This is a competitive, unpaid experience that offers the opportunity to help drive the activities of our research Center while gaining professional, research, publishing, and networking experience.

The Fellows Program offers an open, supportive, and collaborative setting where Fellows can participate in events and research workshops, write briefs and articles for publication on the CSINT website, and help to identify and interact with notables in the field by supporting events, conducting interviews, and doing research.

CSINT is an interdisciplinary research hub at American University that addresses both traditional and non-traditional security questions, placing particular emphasis on the risks and opportunities of emerging technologies. To learn more about our research, please check out our website. CSINT Fellows should have a deep sense of curiosity, a willingness to take initiative, a high level of energy, excellent writing skills, and careful attention to detail. Through the work of the Center, CSINT Fellows will have the chance to interact with prominent speakers, immerse themselves in critical policy questions, publish on the CSINT website, and extend their professional networks.

Research Fellows will have the opportunity to work on a range of projects and tasks:

• Work collaboratively with other Fellows and CSINT faculty on a range of issues connected to security and technology.
• Work independently and with the cohort to publish briefs, articles, videos, and/or blog posts on the Center's website.
• Engage in workshops and events held by CSINT.
• Additional responsibilities may include mentorship, article submission review, small group leadership, plus conception, organization, and leadership of events/field trips involving fellow students and faculty.

General CSINT Fellow Requirements:

• Fellows will participate for 5-10 hours a week, on average.

• Fellows will be required to occasional CSINT meetings at times of mutual convenience.

• Fellows will have the opportunity to connect with their cohort and program manager during the summer 2024 term. This is not required, but encouraged

Eligibility

• Applicants must be enrolled as undergraduate, masters, or doctoral students at American University. Consideration will also be given to recent graduates (within the past three years).

• Applicants must have a GPA of at least 3.3

How to Apply

Please submit the following as attachments in an email from an AU email address, with the subject line “CSINT Fellows Competition,” to Program Specialist Safa Qureshi at safaqureshi@american.edu:

• A one-page statement explaining your interest in the Fellows Program, what you hope to achieve if you are selected and why.
• A C.V.
• An unofficial transcript, with GPA
• A writing sample, preferably on a topic related to security and/or new technologies.
• Deadline for applying is 9 AM on Mon, 1 May 2024.

Emails (to safaqureshi@american.edu) must bear a date stamp at or before that time.