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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 - Nomination Only (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

Senior Scholarly/Professional Development Fellowship

NEH-Funded Research Fellowship (Humanities)

• 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 William Sanders Scarborough Fellowship (Encourages underrepresented and HBCUs to apply)

• 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

  • Robert S. Rifkind Fellowship (Jewish history)

  • Leon Levy Fellowship (Research must have a focus on antisemitism)

  • CJH-Fordham University Short Term Research Fellowship (Jewish history)

• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange - Scholar Grant (Chinese/Taiwan studies in humanities and social sciences)

• Cornell University Society for the Humanities Fellowship

• 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)

• European University Institute (Political and social sciences, economics, law, and history)

  • Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies - Jean Monnet Fellowship

• Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Fellowship Programme (Open to all fields)

  • FRIAS Early Career Fellowship

  • FRIAS Senior Fellowship

• Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (Open to all fields)

• German Historical Institute Washington Fellowship (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

    • Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors

    • Member Fellowship

  • School of Social Science

    • Member Fellowship

• 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)

• Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center Fellowships (Humanities, social sciences, and law)

• Marie S. Curie FRIAS COFUND Fellowship (Open to all fields)

• 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

  • Awards (fellowships) for Faculty at HSIs (Research in the humanities)

  • Dynamic Language Infrastructure Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowship

  • Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

  • Fellowships Open Book Program (limited Limited submission via OVPR)

  • Individual Fellowships (Research in the humanities)

• National Humanities Center Fellowship (Humanities and social/natural sciences)

• Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS)

  • NIAS Individual Fellowships (Humanities and social sciences)

  • Supported Individual Fellowships (Some require application, others by nomination/invitation only)

  • Theme-group Fellowships (Humanities and social sciences, 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 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 Sciencessciences, Economicseconomics)

• Stanford University

  • Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellowship on Contemporary Asia

  • Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship

  • Taiwan Program Visiting Fellowship

• 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)

    • Robert M. Kingdon Fellowship (Research on Christian and/or Jewish studies)

    • Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellowship in Peninsular Spanish Literature and CultureUniversities of Wisconsin Fellowship

  • Institute for Research on Poverty

    • National Poverty Fellows Program

• 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

  Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship

• 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)

Related:

Faculty External Fellowships

• Faculty External Fellowships - Guidelines & Process

• PRESTIGIOUS External Fellowships

• Should I ApplyFinding Fellowships

• SHOULD I APPLY?

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• COLA Co-Sponsored External Fellowships Fellowship Funding

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