For 2024-25, the Center for Jewish History is proud to announce the creation of an expanded fellowship program. The program features four new endowed ten-month fellowships in addition to one existing 12-month fellowship and two short-term fellowships. The seven fellowships constitute the nucleus of a projected Institute for Advanced Jewish Historical Research.
The fellowships will support original research using the collections of the Center’s five partners -- American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Preference will be given to those candidates who draw on the archival and library resources of more than one partner institution. The fellowships are open to a range of senior scholars, early career scholars, and advanced graduate students who have completed all the requirements (i.e., coursework, exams, dissertation proposal) for the doctoral degree apart from the dissertation.
Fellows are encouraged to spend at least three days per week in residence in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room using archival and library resources. Fellows are expected to participate in the Center for Jewish History Fellowship Seminar Program, attend all the meetings of the fellowship program cohort, present a pre-circulated paper to be discussed at one of those meetings, deliver a minimum of one lecture based on research conducted at CJH, and submit a report upon completion of the fellowship describing their experience as a Center Fellow.
Robert Rifkind Fellowship:
- The fellowships are open to those at the rank of Associate or Full Professor or who received doctoral degrees ten or more years prior to the start of the fellowship.
- Ten-month fellowship providing a stipend of $60,000
- Deadline: Feb. 19, 2024
Leon Levy Fellowship
- Through the generous support of the Leon Levy Foundation, the Center for Jewish History invites applications for the Leon Levy Fellowship, which will support original research on the topic of antisemitism using materials in the collections of the Center’s partners: the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
- The fellowship is intended for early and mid-career scholars from accredited domestic and international institutions.
- Ten-month fellowship providing a stipend of $55,000 focusing on the history of antisemitism
- Deadline: Feb. 19, 2024
Sid and Ruth Lapidus Graduate Fellowship
- The fellowships are open to qualified doctoral candidates from accredited domestic and international institutions.
- Ten-month graduate fellowship, providing a stipend of $30,000
- Deadline: Feb. 19, 2024
CJH Advanced Graduate Fellowship
- The fellowships are open to qualified doctoral candidates from accredited domestic and international institutions.
- Ten-month graduate fellowship, providing a stipend of $30,000
- Deadline: Feb. 19, 2024
NEH Scholar in Residence
- Through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) the Center for Jewish History (the Center) invites applications for an NEH Scholar in Residence that will support original research conducted at the Center. Applications are welcome from scholars working in a broad range of fields within the humanities and social sciences.
- Applications are welcome from scholars in any field who have completed a PhD more than six years prior to the start of the fellowship and whose research will benefit considerably from consultation with materials in the collections of the Center’s partners – American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
- Twelve-month fellowship, providing a stipend of $60,000
- Deadline: Feb. 19, 2024
Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Short-Term Graduate Public History Fellowship
- The fellowship is open to qualified master’s and doctoral students from accredited domestic and international institutions.
- Short-term graduate fellowship providing a stipend of $5,000 to work on CJH public history projects
- Deadline: Feb. 19, 2024
CJH-Fordham University Short-Term Research Fellowship
- This open-rank short-term fellowship welcomes applicants from scholars outside the New York City metropolitan area whose research engages Jewish studies in conversation with other fields and who wish to conduct research based on materials housed at the Center for Jewish History and Fordham University. The fellow is expected to spend at least a month at the two host institutions but may stay as long as five months. The fellow's stay must coincide with either the fall or spring Fordham University academic semesters. The stipend for this fellowship is $5,000.
- The goal of the fellowship to engage Jewish studies in conversation with other fields and encourage scholars whose primary research lies in Jewish studies to engage with fields outside their field and scholars whose primary expertise lies in other fields to explore sources and methodologies in Jewish studies.
- Deadline: Feb. 19, 2024
Visiting Scholars Program
- The Center for Jewish History's Visiting Scholar Program invites scholars who have completed their doctorate or its equivalent to apply for an affiliation with the Center and to work in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room in the collections of one or more of its partner institutions: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The Visiting Scholar Program does not provide a stipend or financial support.
- Junior and senior scholars, including those who are on leave from their home institutions, are encouraged to apply, as are independent scholars and scholars who are between academic appointments.