Student Fellowship in Disability Policy
About the Student Fellowship Program
As society's understanding of disability policy develops, new research questions about the needs, experiences, and unmet needs of people with disabilities will arise. Tackling those questions requires new ways of conceptualizing disability as a social, political, cultural, and medical phenomenon. To develop the next generation of disability-policy scholars, the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy has created the Student Fellowship in Disability Policy. Established in 2019, the fellowship offers Brandeis University undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to develop research skills and expand their knowledge of disability policy through direct research training with established Lurie Institute investigators. As of spring 2024, we have trained nearly forty fellows.
Applications for the 2025-2026 fellowship cohort are now closed.
Access previous years' Fellows Presentation Videos
Learn what our previous fellows had to say:

David Cahn, Student Fellow '24-'25

Tori Lajous, Student Fellow '24-'25

Shoshi Finkel, Student Fellow '19 & '19-'20

Julia Brown, Student Fellow '19

Jack Rubinstein, Student Fellow '19-'20
