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 (Prerequisites 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 (Open to all disciplines in the 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 NEH-Funded Research Fellowship (Open to all disciplines in the 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 (Prerequisites apply)

• Americas Research Network Transnationalism Fellowship Program (U.S.-Mexico)

• Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellowship

• Center for Jewish History Institute for Advanced Research

  • Robert S. Rifkind Fellowship

  • Leon Levy Fellowship

  • CJH-Fordham University Short Term Research Fellowship

• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange - Scholar Grant

• Cornell University Society for the Humanities Fellowship

• Council of American Overseas Research Centers

  • Multi-Country Research Fellowship

  • CAORC-NEH Research Fellowship

• European University Institute

  • Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies - Jean Monnet Fellowship

• Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Fellowship Programme

  • FRIAS Early Career Fellowship

  • FRIAS Senior Fellowship

• Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

• German Historical Institute Washington Fellowship

• Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies I Tattit Fellowship

• Harvard University Radcliffe Institute Fellowship

• 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

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

• Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center Fellowships

• Marie S. Curie FRIAS COFUND Fellowship

• National Academy of Education Spencer Fellowship

• National Endowment for the Arts

  • Creative Writing Fellowships

  • Translation Project Fellowships

• National Endowment for Democracy Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship

• National Endowment for the Humanities

  • Awards (fellowships) for Faculty at HSIs

  • Dynamic Language Infrastructure Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowship

  • Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan

  • Fellowships Open Book Program (limited submission via OVPR)

  • Individual Fellowships

• National Humanities Center Fellowship

• Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS)

  • NIAS Individual Fellowships

  • Supported Individual Fellowships

  • Theme-group Fellowships

• Newberry Foundation Fellowships

• Open Society Foundations

  • Open Society Fellowship

    • Fellowship Advancement Fund (for previous recipients)

  • Soros Equality Fellowship

  • Soros Justice Fellowship

• Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) Lone Mountain Fellowship

• Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar (fellowship)

• Sloan Research Fellowship (Earth Sciences, Economics)

• 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

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Institute for Research in the Humanities

    • Solmsen Fellowship

    • Robert M. Kingdon Fellowship

    • Biruté Ciplijauskaité Fellowship in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture

    • Universities 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

  • 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

  • Wilson Center Fellowship

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