Fellowships at the Huntington Library

Sponsor Deadline: 

Nov 15, 2021

Sponsor: 

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

UI Contact: 

Huntington Fellowships   https://www.huntington.org/available-fellowships
The Research Department will  accept Fellowship Applications for the 22-23 fellowship year for Long-Term Fellowships, Short-Term Fellowships, and Travel Grants   until Noon PST on November 15, 2021.

The Huntington offers fourteen Long-Term Fellowships for nine to twelve months in residence, each with a stipend of $50,000. Although nine of these are open to scholars working on projects in any area where The Huntington’s collections are strong, there are specific awards for maritime history (The Kemble Fellowship), the history of medicine (The Molina Fellowship) and the history of science (The Dibner Fellowships). Three awards (The Thom Fellowships) are reserved for recent post-doctoral scholars.

Octavia E. Butler Fellowship 
Eligibility: Only those who hold a Ph.D. or who have successfully defended a dissertation by the application deadline are eligible.
The Huntington is the repository of the literary archive of Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), the first science fiction writer to receive a prestigious MacArthur "genius" Fellowship and the first African American woman to win widespread recognition writing in that genre.

Dibner Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology 
Eligibility: Only those who hold a Ph.D. or who have successfully defended a dissertation by the application deadline are eligible.
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington's collections in the history of science and technology.

Dana and David Dornsife Fellowship
Eligibility: Only those who hold a Ph.D. or who have successfully defended a dissertation by the application deadline are eligible.
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington's collections. Preference may be given to projects in the history of the American West in general and of California in particular.

Kemble Fellowship in Maritime History
Eligibility: Only those who hold a Ph.D. or who have successfully defended a dissertation by the application deadline are eligible.
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington's collections in maritime history. Relevant fields might include the history of oceans and oceanography, coastlines and littorals, and global trade and migration.

Mellon Fellowship
Eligibility: Only those who hold a Ph.D. or who have successfully defended a dissertation by the application deadline are eligible.
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington's collections.

Molina Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Eligibility: Only those who hold a Ph.D. or who have successfully defended a dissertation by the application deadline are eligible.
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington’s collections in the history of medicine and related sciences, including public health. 

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
Eligibility: Only those who hold a Ph.D. or who have successfully defended a dissertation by the application deadline are eligible., and must be a citizen of the United States or foreign national with a minimum of three years U.S. residence.
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington's collections.

Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowships
Eligibility: Non-tenured faculty.
The Thom fellowships are intended to support non-tenured faculty who are revising their dissertation for publication as their first monograph. Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington's collections and must have received the Ph.D. between Jan. 1, 2017, and Dec. 31, 2019.

 

Approximately 140 Short-Term Fellowships are available for one to five months in residence and carry monthly stipends of $3,500. They are open to scholars in any field where The Huntington’s collections are strong.  Eligibility: Doctoral candidates who have advanced to candidacy (ABD) at the time of the application deadline (Nov. 15, 2021); faculty members; and other postdoctoral scholars. 

  • Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowships in the history and literature of Renaissance England
  • The Cheng Fellowship in the History of the Asian American Experience in the U.S
  • The Trent R. Dames Fellowship in the History of Civil Engineering
  • Dibner Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology
  • Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowships
  • Gloria R. Lothrop Fellowship in Western American Women's History
  • The Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas
  • The Francis J. Weber Research Fellowship in Roman Catholic History

     
  • The Alan Jutzi Residential Fellowship for Non-Traditional Scholars
  • The Huntington Fellowship in the Materiality of Print Culture
  • The Thomas W. Wilkins Fellowship to encourage greater diversity among the scholars who use The Huntington's collections
  • The Howard and Dawn Weinbrot Research Fellowship for the Study of Eighteenth Century British Society and Culture

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