PhD Student Fieldwork

Throughout the year, Fletcher PhD students engage in fieldwork to support their dissertation research agenda. Fieldwork takes place in many areas of the U.S. as well as at sites the world-over. In just the past few years, Fletcher PhD candidates have conducted research in China, Ethiopia, Norway, Indonesia, Singapore, Afghanistan, South Africa, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Hong Kong, Niger, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Libya as well as in Texas, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Students often take advantage of their summers to conduct research and the PhD program offers some summer research funding to students for this purpose.