Selected Major Fellowships in the Humanities

These are organized by typical annual due dates.

 

JANUARY

American Academy of Arts & Sciences -- Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy

American Antiquarian Society -- Short-Term Visiting Academic Research Fellowships

American Antiquarian Society -- AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships

Harvard University -- Center for Jewish Studies -- Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica

Harvard University -- W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research -- Fellows Program

Smithsonian -- Margaret Henry Dabney Penick Resident Scholar Program

City University of New York -- Leon Levy Center for Biography -- Biography Fellowships

American Council of Learned Societies -- ACLS Digital Extension Grants

 

FEBRUARY

Emory University -- James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference -- Visiting Fellows Program

Notre Dame -- A. W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship in Medieval Studies

 

MARCH

National Gallery of Art -- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts - Visiting Senior Fellowship Program

Yale University -- Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition -- Postdoctoral and Faculty Fellowships

Folger Shakespeare Library -- Short Term Research Fellowships (Long Term Fellowships due in November)

 

APRIL

National Endowment for the Humanities -- Fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities -- NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication

 

 

MAY

John Templeton Foundation -- Academic Cross-Training Fellowship

 

 

AUGUST

Yaddo -- Artists-in-Residence Program

 

SEPTEMBER

American Council of Learned Societies -- ACLS Fellowships

American Council of Learned Societies -- Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Humanities Scholars

Harvard University -- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies -- Radcliffe Institute Fellowships (to support Scholars, Scientists, Artists, and Writers)

Princeton University -- Lewis Center for the Arts -- Hodder Fellowship

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation -- Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation

 

OCTOBER

Library of Congress -- Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas

National Humanities Center -- Fellowships

Stanford University -- Stanford Humanities Center -- External Faculty Fellowships (Residential)

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange -- Fellowships and Grants for the American Region

American Council of Learned Societies -- Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowships

Institute of Advanced Study -- School of Historical Studies -- Visiting Member Fellowships

Institute of Advanced Study -- School of Historical Studies -- Mellon Fellowships for Assistant Professors

 

NOVEMBER

American Academy in Rome -- Rome Prize Fellowship Program

Huntington Library -- Fellowships (for Scholars of British and American History and Culture)

Metropolitan Museum -- Art History Fellowships

Getty -- Conservation Guest Scholars

School for Advanced Research -- Resident Scholar Fellowships

 

 

DECEMBER

Harvard University -- Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History -- Faculty Fellowship

Stanford University -- Stanford Creative Writing Program -- Wallace Stegner Fellowship

Columbia University -- The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America -- Fellowship Program

 

Contact Alicia Korenman at ark4@duke.edu for more information or for assistance with searching for additional fellowships.