J. Robert Beyster Fellowship

The fellowships program is coordinated by two Beyster faculty fellows at Rutgers, professors Joseph Blasi and Douglas Kruse.

The Beyster fellowships are awarded to outstanding Ph.D. candidates or postdoctoral scholars in the areas of economics, history, management, business and labor relations, law, philosophy, psychology, political science, public policy, and sociology studying employee ownership and related ideas such as profit sharing and broad-based stock options in the corporation and society in the United States. The fellowships permit the students to associate with several scholars engaged in this area of research at Rutgers and receive mentoring and support.

This fellowship supports a Ph.D. student who is initiating or completing a thesis. The fellowship amount is $25,000 per year. The funds can be used to support full-time study at Rutgers University or research and travel expenses for graduate students at other universities. Students who wish to combine the fellowship with graduate study at Rutgers must also be accepted into the School of Management and Labor Relations doctoral program.

The Faculty fellowship of $25,000 supports a newly graduated Ph.D., a non-tenured faculty, or a senior faculty who would study/teach aspects of broad-based employee ownership and high performance participative work practices and is interested in integrating existing research into education on entrepreneurship, finance, employment relations and human resource management. The fellows may work at their home university and be mentored by SMLR faculty.

The Fellowship for a Visiting Professor Fellowship of $25,000 supports a professor from another institution who comes to SMLR to complete a research or writing project that is judged to have a large potential impact on the field of employee ownership. The professor/scholar will visit SMLR for the duration of one semester to one year in order to write up their thesis and/or complete publications under the guidance of SMLR faculty experts.