Graduate Training and Research
Professional formation is about not only learning a profession and preparing to enter the workforce, but also the ongoing work of advancing effective solutions to the world’s problems through original research and constructive debate within those professions.
Graduate students have a unique opportunity to inform and structure those public debates as they enter the workforce.
Fellowship Graduate Training and Research Opportunities
There are four types of Fellows at the Middlebury Institute - Cohort, mentor, pedagogy, and graduate assistant.
Graduate Experiential Learning
Graduate students and faculty engage in experiential learning with a conflict transformation focus, in local, domestic, and international contexts. Learn more about experiential learning opportunities here.
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Critical Issues Forum The Critical Issues Forum (CIF) is a unique program of project-based education facilitated by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. The CIF program is designed to promote awareness of nonproliferation and disarmament issues and develop critical thinking skills among high school students from around the world
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Annual Seminar - Every year Graduate Fellows share their projects in a culminating seminar. Fellows will present again in May 2026 in Monterey (and online). Event details will be shared here in April
Projects
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At the 2025 Conflict Transformation Annual Seminar, 40 CT Cohort Fellows shared in-person and online about their interdisciplinary projects focused on global security, environmental, and intercultural communication. A new feature of this year’s Seminar were 4 skills-based workshops, facilitated by practitioners from a range of domains. The range of workshop topics and speakers provided the Cohort Fellows and other Seminar participants with multiple lenses for exploring conflict and change for the issues that are most compelling to them.
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At MIIS welcome week, CT Executive Director, Graduate Pillar Lead, and Pedagogy Fellows facilitated the workshop “Navigating Culture, Conflict and Change.” Over 150 students engaged around conflict styles, case studies, and learned about CT resources for their ongoing development
Contact
David Wick
Associate Professor; Program Chair, International Education Management
Pillar Four Head
- Email:
- dwick@middlebury.edu
- Tel:
- (831) 647-4176
- Office:
- Casa Fuente Building CF300G