What is a Knight-Wallace Fellowship?

A Knight-Wallace Fellowship is the rarest of opportunities: an academic year of study, reflection and growth at one of the world’s finest universities, nestled in one of the nation’s most livable cities. It is a time of expanding perspectives, intellectual growth and personal transformation.

Each year, the fellowship brings together exceptional journalists from the U.S. and abroad to share this life-changing experience. Our fellows devise a personalized plan of study with access to the courses and resources of the University of Michigan. Twice-weekly seminars bring the best and the brightest from the worlds of journalism and academia directly to you.

We place equal emphasis on broadening horizons outside the classroom – far outside the classroom. Where else will you go from pressing fresh apple cider in the crisp air of a Northern Michigan fall to galloping on a horse through the brush on the Argentine Pampas to sweating in a traditional Russian banya? Extensive travel is a core component of the Knight-Wallace experience.

Located in idyllic Ann Arbor, the Knight-Wallace Fellowship also offers opportunities for our fellow’s partners, spouses and children. The intellectual resources of the university as well as the program’s activities are open to spouses and partners. Children are invited to many after-hour events at Wallace House.

The criteria for selection are simple. We seek the best and brightest in journalism today, mid-career professionals with solid track records, great future promise and, above all, demonstrated leadership in some aspect of journalism.

A typical Knight-Wallace Fellowship class comprises 12 U.S. journalists and six international colleagues.

Ours is a fellowship in every sense of the word, not merely a group of equally accomplished, like-minded colleagues. Of the many feathers in our cap, the friendships that emerge and continue to develop long after the fellowship ends may be the brightest.