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 (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 (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 applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply, and applications from HBCUs)
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 (Research must have relevancy to Jewish history)
Leon Levy Fellowship (Research must have a focus on antisemitism)
CJH-Fordham University Short Term Research Fellowship (Research must have relevancy to Jewish history)
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange - Scholar Grant (Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences; projects in Taiwan Studies are especially encouraged)
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Multi-Country Research Fellowship (Open to humanities and social/natural sciences research)
CAORC-NEH Research Fellowship (Fellowship supports advanced research in the humanities)
European University Institute (Political and social sciences, economics, law, and history)
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 (Focus on German & European history, and German-American relations)
Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies I Tattit Fellowship (Projects must represent advanced research in the Italian Renaissance)
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)
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 (Fellowship supports early career scholars working in areas of education research)
National Endowment for the Arts
Creative Writing Fellowships (Offers support for prose and poetry)
Translation Project Fellowships (Supports projects for the translation of specific works of 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 Open Book Program (Limited submission via OVPR)
Individual Fellowships (Encourages scholars across all disciplines to apply)
National Humanities Center Fellowship (Research in the humanities, social/natural sciences, and the arts)
Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS)
NIAS Individual Fellowships (Humanities and social sciences)
Supported Individual Fellowships (Some fellowships are awarded through an application process, but others are by nomination or 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 (Supports individuals with innovative approaches to open society challenges)
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 (Supports humanities research on pre-1700 Europe)
Robert M. Kingdon Fellowship (Supports humanities 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
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Wilson Center China Fellowship (Research on China's impact on Asia and/or the U.S.)
Wilson Center Fellowship (Research on contemporary global and U.S. challenges)