Deadline: December 15 (postmark)

Submission Method: Mail

Current Fellows: Not available

Recent Chicago Fellows: Not available

Competition Level: Over 100 long- and short-term fellowships are awarded annually; the number of applications submitted is not available

Eligibility:

Short-term: PhD or equivalent, or doctoral candidate at dissertation stage

Long-term: PhD or equivalent; for Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowships only, candidate must be untenured

The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. The Library collections range chronologically from the eleventh century to the present and include a half-million rare books, nearly six million manuscripts, 600,000 photographs, and a large ephemera collection, supported by a half-million reference works. Within the general fields listed above there are many areas of special strength, including: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature, History of Science, British Drama, Colonial America, American Civil War, Western America, and California.

The Huntington will award to scholars over one hundred fellowships for the academic year 2010/11. These fellowships derive from a variety of funding sources and have different terms. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence and to participate in and make a contribution to its intellectual life.

Short-term Fellowships

Huntington Fellowships

Tenure: 1-5 months

Amount of award: $2,500 per month.

Within this category, The Huntington awards a number of specialized fellowships, including:

• Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowships in Renaissance England
• Haynes Foundation Fellowships in Los Angeles History
• Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas
• Trent R. Dames Civil Engineering History Fellowship
• Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship

In addition, in cooperation with the British Academy the Huntington offers a limited number of exchange fellowships in any of the fields in which the Huntington collections are strong.

Long-term Fellowships

Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowships

Tenure: 9-12 months

Amount of award: $50,000

This is designed to support non-tenured faculty members who are revising a manuscript for publication. Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington’s collections and must have received the PhD between 2005 and 2007.

Mellon Fellowships

Tenure: 9-12 months

Amount of award: $50,000

Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington’s collections and have received their PhD by June 2009.

Dana and David Dornsife Fellowship

Tenure: 9-12 months

Amount of award:  Up to $50,000

Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to the Huntington’s collections and have received their PhD by June 2009.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

Tenure: 4-12 months

Amount of award:  Up to $40,000

Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to the Huntington’s collections and have received their PhD by June 2009. Applicant must be a US citizen or foreign national with a minimum of three years U.S. residence.

Deadline: November 1 (receipt)

Submission Method: Mail (this may have changed; new guidelines not yet available)

Current Fellows

Recent Chicago Fellows: Tom Gunning, Art History (09/10); Chris Faraone, Classics (08/09); Herbert George, Visual Arts (Museum Guest Scholar, 06/07); Ingrid Rowland, Art History (00/01); Robert Nelson, Art History (99/00); Martha Feldman, Music (98/99); Barbara Stafford, Art History (95/96)

Competition Level: 16 fellowships are awarded in 2009/10; the number of applications submitted is not available

Eligibility: These grants are for established scholars, artists, or writers who have attained distinction in their fields. Applications are welcome from researchers of all nationalities who are working in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.

Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants provide a unique research experience. Recipients are in residence at the Getty Research Institute, where they pursue their own projects free from academic obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to the year’s research theme, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.

The 2010/11 theme is “The Display of Art.” Projects may focus on, but are not limited to: the history of museums; display in and of antiquity; private and public modes of display; the display of cultural encounter; display itself as art form; and the links between the display of art and conservation.

Deadline: October 15

Submission Method: Electronic

Current Fellows

Recent Chicago Fellows: None

Competition Level: 6-9 fellowships are awarded annually; approximately 250 applications are received annually (a record number of applications was received for 2009/10)

Eligibility: Applicants must have a PhD and normally will be at least three years beyond receipt of the degree at the start of the fellowship year (i.e., will have received the PhD in or before September 2007 for the 2010/11 fellowship); creative arts projects and former external fellows are not eligible, but one fellowship for an arts practitioner/writer is offered at a separate deadline (see below).

This fellowship is awarded to support research projects in the humanities. The Center seeks candidates whose research is likely to contribute to intellectual exchange among a diverse group of scholars within the disciplines of the humanities. One fellowship is awarded each year to a scholar working in the digital humanities.

Fellowships are awarded across the spectrum of academic ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor). Junior fellowships are for scholars who will be at least three and no more than ten years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. by the start of their prospective fellowship year. Senior fellowships are for established scholars who are more than ten years beyond receipt of the PhD.

Fellows are in residence at Stanford University for the academic year. They are awarded stipends of up to $60,000 and a housing and moving allowance of up to $15,000, dependent upon need. Fellows are required to live within a ten-mile radius of Stanford, to attend lunch regularly (at least 4 days a week), and to participate in the research presentations.

The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) and the Humanities Center offer one residential fellowship for a practitioner who is also a writer, scholar, or critic pursuing a research project in the arts. The deadline is December 1, 2009, and the applicant must have received a relevant terminal degree (usually MFA or PhD) in or before September 2007; everything else is the same.