COMPETITIVE External Fellowships for Faculty
Below is a list of active external faculty fellowships, including those designated by CoLA as prestigious. Check eligibility requirements before developing your application, check in with your department chair to discuss associated leaves, and notify the CoLA Research Support Office before applying.
FACULTY EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships
Humboldt Research Fellowship (Open to all fields)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (Pre-requisites apply, nomination only)
American Academy in Berlin The Berlin Prize (fellowship) (Humanities, social sciences, law, public policy)
American Academy in Rome Rome Prize (fellowship) (Humanities, literature, the environment)
American Association of University Women
American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship (Open to all fields, emphasis on STEM and gender research)
International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Urban planning, environ. sciences, pysch., geog., designed for non-U.S. citizens or permanent residents)
American Councils for International Education: Title VIII Research Scholar Program (Open to all fields, must have relevancy to U.S. policy)
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship (Humanities and social sciences)
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies Fellowship Program (Open to all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, must strengthen U.S.-Sri Lanka scholarship)
American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship (Specialize in South Asia)
American Philosophical Society
Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Postdoctoral Fellowship (must be working closely with an Indigenous community on a project)
David Center for the American Revolution Postdoctoral Fellowship (American Revolution and Founding Era (1750-1800))
American Research Institute in Turkey
ARIT Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Turkey (Humanities and social sciences; research on ancient, medieval, or modern Turkey eligible)
NEH-Funded Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Turkey (Humanities and social sciences)
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Americas Research Network Transnationalism Fellowship Program (U.S.-Mexico)
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship (Open to all fields)
Center for Jewish History Institute for Advanced Research Fellowship
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange - Scholar Grant (Chinese/Taiwan studies in humanities and social sciences)
Columbia University Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America Fellowship (Humanities and social sciences)
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Multi-Country Research Fellowship (Humanities and social/natural sciences research)
CAORC-NEH Research Fellowship (Advanced research in the humanities)
Dumbarton Oaks
Research Fellowship (Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape scholars)
I Tatti-Dumbarton Oaks Joint Fellowship (Early and mid-career; background in Italian Renaissance and/or Byzantine Studies)
Mellon Fellowships in Democracy and Landscape Studies (Democracy, the public realm, and place histories)
European University Institute (Political and social sciences, economics, law, and history)
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Fellowship Programme (Open to all fields)
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (Open to all fields)
German Historical Institute Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (German & European history, German-American relations)
Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies I Tattit Fellowship
Harvard University Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (Open to all fields)
Institute for Advanced Study
School of Historical Studies
School of Social Science
Inter-American Foundation & Social Science Research Council Research Fellowship Program (Focus on development in Latin America and the Caribbean)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (Open to all fields)
Korea Foundation Fellowship Programs (Multiple opportunities)
Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center Fellowships (Humanities, social sciences, and law)
Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, Harvard University (Classics)
National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship (Early career scholars/education research)
National Endowment for the Arts
Creative Writing Fellowships (Prose and poetry)
Translation Project Fellowships (Prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English)
National Endowment for Democracy Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities
Dynamic Language Infrastructure - Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowship
Public Scholars (Book-writing grant for public-facing humanities projects on U.S. history)
(Limited submission via OVPR)
Individual Fellowships (Research in the humanities)
National Humanities Center Fellowship (Humanities and social/natural sciences)
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)
Individual Fellowship (Humanities and social sciences)
Theme Group Fellowships (For international teams)
Newberry Foundation Fellowships (Contain general and topic-specific fellowships)
Open Society Foundations
Open Society Fellowship (Challenges in open societies)
Fellowship Advancement Fund (For previous recipients)
Soros Equality Fellowship (Racial justice)
Soros Justice Fellowship (U.S. criminal legal system)
Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) Lone Mountain Fellowship (Environmental challenges)
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar (fellowship) (Social, economic, political and behavioral sciences)
Sloan Research Fellowship (Earth sciences, economics)
Stanford University
University of Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good Faculty Fellowship (Annual fellowship themes set by institute)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Institute for Research in the Humanities
Solmsen Fellowship (Research on pre-1700 Europe)
Kingdon Fellowship (Research on Christian and/or Jewish studies)
Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellowship in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture
Institute for Research on Poverty
Wellesley College Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fellowship
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship (Anthropology)
School for Advanced Research Wenner-Gren Fellowship in Anthropology and Black Experiences
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies Research Fellowship (Research on Texas, the American Southwest, or the U.S.-Mexico borderlands)
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Wilson Center China Fellowship (China's impact on Asia and/or the U.S.)
Wilson Center Fellowship (Contemporary global and U.S. challenges)