The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors scientists and scholars, irrespective of academic discipline and nationality, in order to strengthen Germany as a research location through international research exchanges. The foundation supports recipients during their entire lifetimes and actively promotes international understanding, scientific progress and development.
2013-2015: Berislav Marusic, Humboldt Fellow at Forschungskolleg Analytic German Idealism, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig, Germany
Jan. 2015-June 2016: Kate Moran, Associate Professor of Philosophy (PHIL): Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowships for Experienced Researchers, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
The American Academy in Rome offers twelve fellowships each year in all phases of Italy's culture and history from ancient to modern times. In addition, the Academy hosts recipients of other fellowships in the Humanities, recipients of Italian Exchange fellowships, and hosts Resident Scholars, Visiting Artists and Scholars, and Affiliated Fellowship recipients.
2019: Caitlin Gillespie (Classical Studies), Visiting Scholar
2018-2019: Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow (Classical Studies), Associate Visiting Scholar
2016: Paul Alexander Morrison (ENG): Visiting Scholar
2012: Ramie Targoff (English, Italian Studies), Scholar in Residence
2011 and 2010: Eric Chasalow (Music) Visiting Artist
2007: Erin Gee (Music), Samuel Barber Rome Prize
2002: Jonathan Unglaub (Fine Arts), Resident Scholar
2015: Erin Gee (Music), Charles Ives Fellowship
2009: Yu-Hui Chang (Music), Charles Ives Fellowship
1986: Eric Chasalow (Music), Charles Ives Fellowship
The AAUW offers a range of grants and fellowships to support the careers of women in the academia:
2018-2019: Dorothy Kyunh Hi Ki, Assistant Professor of English (ENG): American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
The ACLS is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. ACLS believes knowledge is a public good. It supports annual fellowships and grants competitions for scholars in the humanities and related social sciences.
Brandeis recipients
2020: Naghmeh Sohrabi (History and Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies), The Intimate Lives of a Revolution: Iran 1979
2019: Jonathan Anjaria (Anthropology), Designing Sustainable and Equitable Streets: A Scholarly and Governmental Collaboration
2018: Janet Macintosh (Anthropology), Tough Talk, Vulnerable Soldiers: Language Ideology and the Making of United States Service Members
2018 & 2014: Xing Hang (History), The Great Asian Deerskin Boom: Consumer Revolution, Inter-Asian Trade, and Environmental Degradation, 1600-1800
2017: Harleen Singh (GRALL; SAS; WGS), Half an Independence: Women, Violence, and Modern Lives in India
2015 & 2004: Michael Willrich (History), The Anarchist's Advocate: War, Terror, and the Origins of America's Surveillance State
2014: Ulka Anjaria, (English), American Council of Learned Societies/Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship
2015-2016: Leah Gordon, (Education; History), Charles Ryskamp Fellowship/ American Council of Learned Societies
2012-2013: Aida Wong (Fine Arts), Joint Fellowship with the National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholarly Communication with China, affiliated with Shanghai Museum
2011: Brian Donahue (American Studies), Wildlands and Woodlands: The Future of the Eastern Forest
2009-2010: Ramie Targoff, (English), American Council of Learned Societies (A.C.L.S.) Fellowship
2009-2010: Jonathan Anjara, (Anthropology; East Asian Studies), Mellon Foundation/ American Council of Learned Societies Early Career Fellowship
2002-2003: Aida Wong (Fine Arts), Joint Fellowship with the National Endowment for the Humanities, Scholarly Communication with China, affiliated with Beijing University
The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) was formed to further the knowledge of India in the United States by supporting American scholarship on India. The programs of AIIS foster the production of and engagement with scholarship on India, and promote and advance mutual understanding between the citizens of the U.S. and of India. AIIS is committed to equity, inclusion and access to all communities in fulfilling its mission.
2015-2016: Jonathan Anjaria, (Anthropology; South Asian Studies): AIIS Senior Research Fellowship
The American Philosophical Society Library and Museum offer several groups of fellowships for scholars at various stages in their careers.
1999-2000: Dorothy Hodgson (Anthropology)
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program supports high-caliber scholarship in the social sciences and humanities, making it possible for the recipients to devote time to research and writing that addresses pressing issues and cultural transitions affecting us at home and abroad.
The Applied Research Collective for American Jewry at NYU convenes scholars and practitioners, in and beyond the Jewish community, to collaboratively develop recommendations in funding and policy for Jewish foundations and organizations. Recognizing the dramatic societal, economic, and political changes of the 21st century, ARC seeks to generate a responsive body of literature and cohort of thinkers to enhance Jewish communal life for the coming decades.
2018-2019, 2019-2020: Jon Levisohn
The Bogliasco Foundation awards 60 fellowships each year in seven residency periods from September to May in archaeology, architecture, classics, dance, film/video, history, landscape architecture, literature, music, philosophy, theater, and visual arts.
2018: David Rakowski (Music)
2015: Erin Gee (Music)
2006: David Rakowski (Music)
2012-2016: Laura Jockusch, (NEJS): Martin Buber Society Fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
In an increasingly crowded 123, chaotic, and contested world and marketplace of ideas, the Carnegie Endowment offers decisionmakers global, independent, and strategic insight and innovative ideas that advance international peace.
2006-2008: Eva Bellin (Politics)
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences offers a residential fellowship program for scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines that contribute to advancing research and thinking in social science. Fellows represent the core social and behavioral sciences (anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology) but also the humanities, education, linguistics, communications, and the biological, natural, health, and computer sciences.
2009- 2010 Margie Lachman (Psychology)
2001: Dorothy Hodgson (Anthropology): Residential Fellow
The Center for Hellenic Studies fellowship program encourages and supports research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greece in literature, archaeology, art, and culture.
2013-2014: Joel P. Christensen, (Classical Studies)
The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies invites applications each academic year for the Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica. Applicants may come from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences associated with studies in Judaica; junior faculty are especially encouraged to apply. PhDs are required.
2013-2014: Eugene Sheppard, Harry Starr Fellowship Center for Jewish Studies
CASVA, founded in 1979 and located in the National Gallery’s East Building, is a research institute that fosters study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, urbanism, photography, and film worldwide from prehistoric times to the present. CASVA’s programs include fellowships, meetings, research, and publications.
2008-2009: Jonathan Unglaub (Fine Arts), Samuel H, Kress Senior Fellow
Crystal Bridges Museum and the Tyson Scholars Program encourages and supports scholarship that seeks to expand boundaries or traditional categories of investigation into American art. Crystal Bridges invites applications addressing a variety of topics including art history, architecture, visual and material culture, Indigenous art, Latin American art, American studies, and contemporary art. Projects with an interdisciplinary focus are particularly encouraged.
2019: Nancy Scott (Fine Arts): Georgia O'Keeffe, Education, and the Art of Philanthropy
A variety of programs at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, DC, offer support through Fellowships and Awards for senior scholars and midcareer researchers in the Humanities and Visual Arts.
2015: Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom, (Classical Studies; NEJS): Feeding Asceticism: The Archaeology of Byzantine Monastic Kitchens
2007-2008: Charles Golden, (Anthropology): Dumbarton Oaks Precolumbian Fellow
2004: Charles Golden, (Anthropology): Salvage, Conservation, and Consolidation at the Classic Maya Site of Tecolote, Guatemala, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Project Grant
Through its Fellowship Programs, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Predoctoral, Dissertation, and Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a national competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation.
2017-2018: Isaiah Wooden (Theater Arts)
The Hardt Foundation for the Study of Classical Antiquity, in pursuit of its ambition to promote the study of the culture and civilization of Greco-Roman antiquity, offers young researchers an opportunity to apply for research scholarships
2017: Caitlin Gillespie, Foundation Hardt at Vandœuvres, Switzerland
The Center's Scholars' Program encompasses both short and long-term fellowships. Through its fellowships, the Center provides support for both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral research. Fellowship proposals may address wide-ranging aspects of the history of collecting in the United States from Colonial times to the present as well as in Europe. Proposals may focus on individual collectors, dealers, developments, or trends in the art market. Interdisciplinary research is especially encouraged.
2014: Nancy Scott (Fine Arts): Leon Levy Senior Scholar
The U.S... Fulbright Scholar Program offers nearly 470 teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others. In addition to several new program models designed to meet the changing needs of U.S... academics and professionals, Fulbright is offering more opportunities for flexible, multi-country grants.
Brandeis recipient
2018-2019: Thomas Doherty - Netherlands (American Studies): FDR and Hollywood
2018-2019: Donald Shepard - Australia (Heller): Cost-Benefit Analysis of Innovative Approaches for Vector Control
2016-2017: Dan Kryder - United Kingdom (Politics): Constitution as Constellation: Science, Time and Politics in 18th Century England and America
2016: Stephen Dowden - Austria (GRALL): German and European Modernism: Literature, Art, Music, Architecture
2015-2016: Karen Hansen - Sweden (Sociology; WGS): The Entanglements of Migration
2015: Grace Talusan, - Phillipines (English): Roman Impact on a Multi-Ethnic Region: Achziv
2014-2015: Daniel Bergstresser - Colombia (IBS): Finance
2013-2015: Alexandra Ratzlaff - Israel (Classical Studies): Roman Impact on a Multi-Ethnic Region: Achziv (Ecdippa) in the Western Galilee during the Roman Period
2011-2012: Steven Burg - Germany (Politics). German Studies Seminar 2011
2010-2011: Tom Shapiro - South Africa (Heller). Fulbright U.S.. Scholar. “The Wealth Gap: Reconciliation and Transformation in South Africa and the United States?”
2010-2011: Angela Gutchess - Turkey (Psychology, Neuroscience): Fulbright U.S.. Scholar. “Cross-Cultural Differences in the Use of Categories in Memory”
2009-2011: Suleyman Dost (NEJS): Fulbright Graduate Scholarship, International Institute of Education
2005: Dorothy Hodgson (Anthropology)
2005-2006: Richard Schroder (Anthropology): Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant ($106,400)
2003: Mary Baine Campbell (English): Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award
2003-2004: Caren Irr (English): Fulbright Lectureship, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
The Getty Foundation has many funding programs for scholars around the world and they also administer grants for scholars who come to work at the Getty Center on behalf of the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Getty Trust.
2008: Talinn Grigor (Fine Arts). Of Mimetic Authenticity: The Orient or Rome Debate beyond (post)Colonial Ambivalence
2001: Jonathan Unglaub (Fine Arts). Poussin, Tasso, and the Poetics of Painting and Ancient Painting and Baroque Poetics: A Convergence in Poussin's Later Works
The academic program of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg centres on inviting academics to Greifswald to carry out research within the Alfried Krupp Fellows program, holding academic lectures, conferences, symposia and summer schools, and organizing postgraduate programs and interdisciplinary working groups.
2020-2021: Kate Moran, (Philosophy): Senior Fellow
The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton selects members to be in residence annually. Members are selected by the Faculty of each School, and come to the Institute for periods as short as one term or as long as several years. Young scholars and applicants from non-traditional backgrounds who have outstanding promise are considered, as are senior scholars whose reputations are already well established. The major consideration in the appointment process is the expectation that each Member’s period of residence at the Institute will result in work of significance and originality.
2017: Jonathan Unglaub, (Fine Arts): Painting as Miraculous Birth: Raphael and the Renaissance Madonna
2014-2015: Amy Singer, (History)
For the purpose of promoting Japanese studies overseas, Japan Foundation Research Fellowship provides support to preeminent foreign scholars in Japanese studies to give them an opportunity to conduct research in Japan.
2015-2016: Matthew Fraleigh (Comparative Humanities; Comparative Literature; East Asian Studies; Film, Television and Interactive Media; German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature)
“The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers Fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions and irrespective of race, color, or creed.”
Brandeis recipients
2015: Michael Willrich (History): "The Anarchist's Advocate”
2014: David Engerman (History): “Planning for Plenty: The Economic Cold War in India”
2013: Robin Miller (GRALL; Comparative Humanities): “Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and the Small of This World”
2012: Ramie Targoff (English, Italian Studies): “Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England.”
2011: John Plotz (English): “Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Partial Absorption”
2009: Yu-Hui Chang (Music) “Works and Process at the New York Guggenheim Museum presented three of her works”
2006: Markus Baenziger (Fine Arts)
2006: Karen V Hasen (History): “Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 (Oxford, 2013)”
2005: Dorothy Hodgson (Anthropology)
2004: Christopher Miller (Biochemistry)
2003: Bong Lian (Math)
2002: Mary Baine Campbell (English)
2002: Tomas Daniels (Fine Arts)
2002: Alfredo Gisholt (Fine Arts): “Fellowship in Painting”
2002 Jennifer Nuss (Fine Arts)
2001: Nadine Zanow (Fine Arts)
2000: Tom Bills (Fine Arts)
The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is driven by the mission to deepen and broaden the understanding of Jewish history, texts, cultures, ideas, and experiences. The research it supports spans all periods of Jewish history, from distant antiquity through to the present day; it reaches into every part of the globe where Jews have lived, and it is grounded in a wide range of disciplines and approaches. Over the decades, after supporting hundreds of scholars and untold numbers of discoveries and publications, it has earned a reputation as the nation’s preeminent research center in the study of Jewish history and culture.
Spring 2021: Jon Levisohn, Feith Family Fellow, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
The bicontinental Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought is our think tank, home to internationally renowned scholars who are committed to applying their scholarship to generating ideas and research on contemporary issues of central importance to Jewish life in Israel and around the world.
2019: Alexander Kaye, (NEJS)
The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust offers Fellowships at the Hebrew University and at the Technion to Visiting Professors, Post-Doctoral Researchers and Doctoral Students.
2001-2002: Jonathan Sarna, (NEJS)
The MacArthur Fellows Program is intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. In keeping with this purpose, the Foundation awards fellowships directly to individuals rather than through institutions. Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or those in other fields, with or without institutional affiliations. They may use their fellowship to advance their expertise, engage in bold new work, or, if they wish, to change fields or alter the direction of their careers.
2000-2005: Bernadette Brooten (NEJS)
1998-2003: Gina Turrigiano (Biology)
The Nantes Institute for Advanced Study is a state-approved public benefit foundation that invites every academic year about thirty Fellows selected for the quality and originality of their work.
2020: Pu Wang, (Comparative Humanities, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature): Fellow, L’Institut d'études avancées de Nantes
The Public Intellectuals Program (PIP), launched by the National Committee in 2005, is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of China specialists who, in the tradition of earlier China hands, have the interest and potential to venture outside of academia to engage with the public and policy communities.
2011-2013: Elanah Uretsky, (East Asian Studies; International and Global Studies)
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent federal agency that funds, promotes, and strengthens the creative capacity of our communities by providing all Americans with diverse opportunities for arts participation.
2019: Chen Chen, (English): Fellowship in Creative Writing
The National Humanities Center welcomes scholars in residence from across the humanities and around the world. During their time in residence, Fellows are given the freedom to work on their projects while benefiting from the exceptional services of the Center.
2017: Harleen Singh (GRALL; South Asian Studies; WGS). Half An Independence: Women, Violence, and Modern Lives in India
2002: Faith Smith (English and American Literature). Making Modern Subjects: Cultural and Intellectual Formation, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, 1880-1910
2000: John Plotz (English): Out of Circulation: For and Against Book Collecting, named Notable Essay in Best New American Essays
New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who seek to acquire systematic training outside their own areas of special interest. The program is intended to enable scholars in the humanities to work on problems that interest them most, at an appropriately advanced level of sophistication. In addition to facilitating the work of individual faculty members, these awards should benefit scholarship in the humanities more generally by encouraging the highest standards in cross-disciplinary research.
2019: Naghmeh Sohrabi, (Middle East History): "Forgotten Dreams and Misplaced Revolutions: Conceptualizing Twentieth Century Revolutions in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East”
2006: Jane Kamensky, (History): Reshaping Our Understanding of the Fight for Suffrage
The Newhouse Center at Wellesley College hosts three to five external fellows each academic year. Resident fellows devote themselves primarily to their own research, but they also participate actively in the intellectual life of the institution, attending fellows’ lunches and sharing their work in progress with one another and with the larger Wellesley community. Fellows may also work with the director to develop programming for the center in the form of guest speakers, a faculty series, or a mini-conference.
Brandeis recipients
2018-2019: John Plotz (English): Nonhuman Being: Post-Darwinian Naturalism, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
2016-2017: Jeronimo Arellano (ROMS, LALS)
2009-2010: Laura Quinney (English): The Impossible Self
2008-2009: Elizabeth Ferry (Anthropology): Matters of Value: Minerals and the Making of U.S.- Mexico, 1851-2007
2006-2007: John Burt (English): Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict in Democracy
Radcliffe is Harvard University’s institute for advanced study: a laboratory of ideas that brings together students, scholars, and practitioners from the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, and professions and engages with questions that demand cross-disciplinary exploration. The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program annually selects and supports 50 leading artists and scholars who have both exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments.
Brandeis recipients
2019-2020: Laura Jockusch, (History): “The Trials of Stella Goldschlag: Nazi Victim, Holocaust Survivor, and War Criminal”
2017-2018: Leah Wright Rigueur, (History)
2017-2018: Chad Williams, (African and African American Studies): “The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois, African Americans, and the History of World War I”
2012-2013, 2003-2004: David Engerman, (History): “Know Your Enemy: American Sovietology and the Making of the Cold War”
2011-2012: John Plotz, (English): “Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Partial Absorption”
2010-2011: Yu-Hui Chang, (Music): “Composition of a Chamber Opera and Other Chamber Works”
2010-2011: Irving Epstein, (Chemistry): “Cross-Diffusion and Pattern Formation in Chemical, Biological, Ecological, and Social Systems”
2009-2010: Erin Gee, (Music)
2008-2009: James Haber, (Biology): “DNA Repair by Recombination”
2008-2009: Wendy Cadge, (Sociology): “Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine
2007-2008: Jané Kondev, (Physics): Physical Biology of the Cell”
2005-2006: Elizabeth Brainerd, (Economics)
2004-2005: Susan Lanser, (English, Woman, Gender, & Sexuality Studies): “Sapphic Subjects and the Making of Modernity”
2004-2005: Michael Willrich, (History): “Speaking Law to Power: Struggles for Civil Liberties in the Progressive Era, 1890–1920”
The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Program offers academics, artists, policymakers, and practitioners a serene setting for focused, goal-oriented work, and the unparalleled opportunity to establish new connections with residents from a wide array of backgrounds, disciplines, and geographies.
2013: Dorothy Hodgson, (Anthropology)
The Simons Fellows programs in both Mathematics and Theoretical Physics provide funds to faculty for up to a semester-long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations. Sabbatical research leaves from classroom teaching and administrative obligations can provide strong intellectual stimulation and lead to increased creativity and productivity in theoretical research. Awards will be based on the applicant’s scientific accomplishments in the five-year period preceding the application and on the potential scientific impact of the work to be done during the leave period.
2018: Bulbul Chakraborty, (Physics)
2017: Matthew Headrick, (Physics)
2017: Danuel Ruberman, (Mathematics)
2014: Dmitry Kleinbock, (Mathematics)
2012: Ira Gessel, (Mathematics)Fellowships are awarded every year to established and promising scholars with the aim of fostering a critical commitment to inquiry in the theory, history, and interpretation of art and visual culture. As part of our commitment to fostering diverse engagements with the visual arts, RAP particularly seeks to elevate constituencies, subjects, and methods that have historically been underrepresented in the discipline. These fellowships are intended to nurture a variety of disciplinary approaches and support new voices in art history.
2002: Jonathan Unglaub, (Fine Arts)
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute cultivates innovative interdisciplinary research into publicly-significant questions, reflecting our commitment to a just, open society, well-integrated in the region.
2017-present: Lynn Kaye, (NEJS): Visiting Library Fellow
The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research supports research on the history and culture of people of African descent the world over and provides a forum for collaboration and the ongoing exchange of ideas. It seeks to stimulate scholarly engagement in African and African American studies both at Harvard and beyond, and to increase public awareness and understanding of this vital field of study. As the preeminent research center in the field, the Hutchins Center sponsors visiting fellows, art exhibitions, publications, research projects, archives, readings, conferences, and new media initiatives that respond to and excite interest in established and emerging channels of inquiry in African and African American research.
2018-2019 Leah Wright Rigueur, (History): W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
2018-2019 Derron Wallace, (African and African American Studies; Education; Sociology): W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Program seeks to increase the presence of minority junior faculty members and other faculty members committed to eradicating racial disparities in core fields in the arts and humanities. The Fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports the Mellon Foundation's mission to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies.
Brandeis recipient
2018: Derron Wallace (AAAS; Education; Sociology)
2012-2013: Leah Wright Rigueur, (History): Woodrow Wilson/Andrew W. Mellon Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty
2001-2002: Javier Urcid, (Anthropology)
The Wilson Center brings fresh thinking and deep expertise to the most pressing policy challenges we face today. We convene scholars to create a global dialogue of ideas that Congress, the administration, and the international policy community can act on. In 2019, the Wilson Center was named the #1 regional studies think tank in the world.
2016-2017: Jytte Klausen, (European Cultural Studies; Politics)
YIVO is dedicated to fostering knowledge of the ongoing story of Jewish life, with a focus on the history and culture of East European Jewry—the ancestry of a significant proportion of Jews in the world today.
2016: Ellen Kellman, (NEJS): The Drench Memorial Fellowship and the Tendler Endowed Fellowship in American Jewish Studies