| Program | Deadline | Program Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| American Academy in Rome Rome Prize Fellowships |
November 1 | Awarded each year to 30 artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers, chosen from the following disciplines: Architecture Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Landscape Architecture, Literature, Musical Composition, Visual Arts, Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Modern Italian Studies. Applicants, except those applying for the NEH postdoctoral fellowship, must be U.S. citizens at the time of application. U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who have lived in the U.S. for the three years preceding the application deadline may apply for the NEH postdoctoral fellowships. |
| American Antiquarian Society Short-Term Fellowships Long-Term Fellowships |
varies | Offers short-term fellowships (1-3 months) and long-term fellowships (4-12 months) to support residential research on the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. |
| American Association of University Women Fellowships and Grants |
varies | American Fellowships support women scholars completing doctoral dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research, or finishing research for publication; recipients must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. International Fellowships support graduate or postgraduate study or research by women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. |
| American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships and Grants |
varies | ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. |
| American Councils for International Education Research Fellowships |
varies | Administers several major grants for independent, overseas research in the humanities and social sciences. In recent years, American Councils scholars have conducted independent research in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine. |
| American Historical Association J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History Fellowship in Aerospace History |
March | Jameson Fellows spend 2-3 months at the Library of Congress for American history research. Aerospace Fellows undertake a 6-12 month research project in aerospace history. |
| American Research Center in Egypt Fellowships |
January | Several fellowships available for postdoctoral travel and study in Cairo and Egypt. |
| Cambridge University Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Mellon/Newton Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral Research Fellowships |
April 1 | Applications are invited for two 2-year interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellowships aimed at researchers working in any field of the arts, social sciences or humanities. The fellowships will enable post-doctoral fellows to consolidate their research and publication record while developing a related project or initiative at CRASSH during their two-year fellowship. Applicants must have completed the PhD and should normally have been awarded it not more than three years prior to taking up their fellowship. |
| Cambridge University Churchill College, Fitzwilliam College, and Trinity Hall: Junior Research Fellowships |
November | Churchill College, Fitzwilliam College, and Trinity Hall fund three-year fellowships for recent postdocs in various subjects. |
| Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Harvard University (Villa I Tatti) Fellowships |
varies | Offers fellowships for research on the Italian Renaissance. |
| Chemical Heritage Foundation Fellowships |
February 15 | Offers fellowships and travel grants for in-residence research in the history and sociology of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries. |
| Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship |
January | Supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. master's students, doctoral candidates, and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the U.S., at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. |
| Dartmouth College Leslie Center for the Humanities Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships |
October | Two-year postdoctoral fellowships for research and teaching at Dartmouth University. Fellows are expected to teach two courses each year. |
| Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowships |
March 1 short-term, November 1 for long-term fellowships | Research fellowships providing access to the Library's collections. Short-term (1-3 months) and long-term (6-9 months) fellowships are available. |
| Getty Research Institute Residential Grants and Fellowships |
November 1 | Offers several postdoctoral fellowships for scholars in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. |
| Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Scholarly Fellowships |
May 1 | Awards short-term research fellowships to scholars working in American history at every level from doctoral candidates to senior faculty, including independent scholars. The fellowships support research within American history archives in New York City. |
| Haverford College John B. Hurford '60 Humanities Center Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellows |
January | Two-year fellowships in the humanities at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. |
| Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Programmes for postdoctoral researchers |
varies | Several fellowships fund research stays in Germany. |
| Huntington Library Fellowships |
December 15 | Short-term and long-term in-residence fellowships. The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers History Center IEEE Fellowship in Electrical History |
February 1 | Supports either one year of full-time graduate work in the history of electrical science and technology at a college or university of recognized standing, or up to one year of post-doctoral research for a scholar in this field who has received their Ph.D. within the past three years. |
| Library of Congress, John W. Kluge Center Fellowships, Distinguished Chairs & Endowments |
varies | Offers several postdoctoral fellowships for research at the Library of Congress. |
| National Academies Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships |
November | Seeks to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Only U.S. citizens or nationals are eligible to apply. |
| National Maritime Museum (UK) Caird Senior Research Fellowships |
November 1 | Up to £20,000 for one year for research on the Museum's collections or in any field of British naval and maritime history. |
| National Science Foundation Science, Technology, and Society (STS) |
February 1, August 1 | STS considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, and sociological questions that arise in connection with science, engineering, and technology, and their respective interactions with society. |
| Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities |
January for long-term; February for short-term fellowships | Fellowships provide assistance to researchers to use the collections in Chicago. Short-term fellowships for one week to two months and long-term fellowships for six to eleven months are available. |
| Oxford University Junior Research Fellowships |
December | The Governing Bodies of three Colleges (Christ Church, Merton College and St John's College) elect in co-operation Junior Research Fellows in Arts and Science. The Fellowships are normally awarded to those who are approaching the end of their doctoral research or who have begun postdoctoral study. |
| Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Postdoctoral Fellowship |
October 1 | The Princeton Society of Fellows, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and selected natural sciences, invites applications for in-residence postdoctoral fellowships. |
| Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Programs |
varies | Fellowships, internships, and other programs are available for scholars interested in working with the Smithsonian. |
| Society for the History of Technology Hindle Fellowship |
April 15 | The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology offers $10,000 for research or writing in the history of technology for a period of at least four months. |
| Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellowships in Chinese Studies |
January 15 | Offers up to two postdoctoral fellowships in Chinese Studies each year. These awards are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences studying any historical period. |
| Tufts University Center for the Humanities Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows |
February 1 | Two-year postdoctoral fellowships for research and teaching at Tufts University. Fellows are expected to teach two courses each year. Fellows will teach one course in the spring semester of their first year and two in the second year of their residency through their home department or program. |
| UC Humanities Research Institute Residential Research Fellows |
December | UC faculty, postdocs, graduate students and non-UC faculty are invited to apply for residential fellowships in the residential group. |
| UC MEXUS UC MEXUS-CONACYT Postdoctoral Research Fellowships |
March | Supports postdoctoral researchers participating in a research project or training program at the University of California or at Mexican institutions of higher education or research. |
| UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Fellowships |
February 1 | The Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies oversees a number of fellowhips at the Clark Library. Fellowships are offered from the undergraduate to the postdoctoral levels, for both long and short terms. |
| UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | November | Encourages outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The current program offers fellowships to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California. |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of African American Studies Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program |
January | One postdoctoral fellowship is available with the Department for scholars who study African Americans and transnational Black populations in the U.S. An applicant must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. |
| University of Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship |
October | Each year the Society selects four outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships in the social, physical, and life sciences, and in the professional schools; and four Mellon Fellows in the humanities. |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina Postdoc Program for Faculty Diversity |
January | The purpose is to develop scholars from underrepresented groups for possible tenure track appointments at the UNC-Chapel Hill. Appointments are for two years. Preference will be given to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for the Study of the American South Postdoctoral Fellowship |
December | The fellowships will support outstanding junior scholars as they revise book-length manuscripts on topics related to the South, and intended for publication by the University of North Carolina Press. |
| University of Pennsylvania PHF Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities McNeil Center for Early American Studies Fellowships |
October 15 for PHF; November 1 for McNeil | The Penn Humanities Forum awards five one-year in-residence Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships each academic year to junior scholars in the humanities who are not yet tenured. The McNeil Center will appoint a recent recipient of the PhD Fellow for a two-year term in residence at the Center. |
| Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University Mellon Fellowship NEH Research Fellowship |
March 1, June 1, October 1 | Supports research by scholars using the VFL's collections. Mellon Fellowships are for two to eight weeks duration. The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies annually awards six five-week NEH Fellowships to scholars to use the Vatican Film Library and Pius XII Library and other resources. |
| Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship Program |
January 1 | Postdoctoral fellow will conduct research in any field of the humanities or humanistic social sciences and teach a one-semester undergraduate course. |