Art History
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
Applications are welcome from scholars who bring to research and teaching the theoretical, methodological, creative, and/or technical practice of digital technologies. We welcome applications from scholars who engage with emerging digital cultures from a humanities perspective. The Fellow must be prepared to teach courses that reflect expertise in the digital humanities as well as in another substantive field.
J.S. Lee Memorial Fellowship Programme for Chinese Art
The J. S. Lee Memorial Fellowship Programme supports curators, museum professionals and Chinese art history research academics taking part in fellowships in the Programme Participating Institutions. In order to realize the goal of promoting international exchange and cooperation in the field of Chinese art, the Programme requires applicants to be based in museums or institutions in places outside their habitual residence. The fellowship aims to contribute to the professional enhancement of curators and academics in Chinese art through attachments and fellowships at museums and art institutions in China and overseas.
Academic Fellowships in American Modernism
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center academic fellowship program strives to provide a supportive environment for the pursuit of research and writing by sponsoring full-time fellowships in American Modernism from the late nineteenth-century to the present. Research Center fellows have access to the archive and library collections of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum as well as collections from archival and library institutions across the Albuquerque and Santa Fe communities.
Andrew W. Mellon "Cultures of Conservation" Fellowship
This fellowship is designed to help bridge the gap between the ways objects are studied by conservators and the ways they are approached by academics in the human sciences. These fellowships are available to individuals with a PhD or equivalent professional experience, and each of the appointed humanities-trained fellows will join a conservation team at a New York-area museum and work together on a joint project. The participating institutions are The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Division, and The Museum of Modern Art.
The "Drawn to Art" Fellowship
Research on American art, visual culture and other projects. Must make substantial use of the graphic materials as primary sources.
Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences
Topics vary from year to year.
Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowships
The Henry Moore Institute is a world-recognized center for the study of sculpture. Up to four fellows will be given the opportunity to spend a month in Leeds to develop their own research. Research Fellowships are intended for artists, scholars and curators working on historic and contemporary sculpture who can make particular use of the Institute's resources: our Research Library, Archive of sculptors' papers and the Leeds sculpture collections.
Fellowship Opportunities in American Art
The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery invite applications for research fellowships in art and visual culture of the United States. Artworks include nineteenth- and twentieth-century marble and bronze sculpture, nineteenth-century landscape painting, Gilded Age and American impressionist paintings, twentieth-century realism, photography and graphic art, folk and self-taught art, Latino art, African American art, and film and media arts. The collection is housed in a National Historic Landmark building shared by the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art.
Freer Sackler Galleries (FSGA) The Anna van Biema Fellowship
The Anne van Biema Fellowship was established by bequest to promote excellence in research and publication on the Japanese visual arts. The Galleries provide magnificent opportunities for collections-based study, and hold world-class library and archival collections related to Japanese visual arts. Research proposals are evaluated in terms of merit, originality, methodology, and potential for significant publication that will advance scholarly and public understanding of the Japanese visual arts.
GRI-NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Participants are in residence at Getty's Research Institute, where they pursue research to expand their dissertation for publication. Fellows make use of the Getty's collection, join in a weekly meeting devoted to the annual theme, and participate in intellectual life at Getty's.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellowship
The fellowship, based in the APS Museum, will provide hands-on experience in curatorial work and the opportunity to pursue an independent research project. As the public face of the APS, the museum researches and interprets the APS’s extensive collections for the regional, national, and international visitors who converge on Philadelphia’s historic district. Twenty percent of the Fellow’s time will be reserved for his or her own independent research, ideally using resources at the APS or kindred regional institutions.
MTI Fellowship
Caltech and The Huntington have established a collaborative interdisciplinary research program, formally titled “Materialities, Texts and Images." Its aim is to investigate the historical relations between the material world and different forms of cultural representation; and to examine the strategies by which knowledge and taste have been and are constituted. There is a focus on the dynamics between material and other (ideational, calculative, inductive) forms of instantiation.
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF)
This unique residency offers creative collaboration in a dynamic environment. It brings together Smithsonian scholars and distinguished visual artists from a variety of disciplines throughout the United States and abroad to explore cross-disciplinary connections. It strengthens the arts community within the Smithsonian and broadens public interest in and understanding of contemporary art. SARF fellowships support research and do not require recipients to create or exhibit artwork.
David and Julie Tobey Fellowship
One David and Julie Tobey Fellowship, for three months, is available each academic year to support research on drawings, prints, and illustrated manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance. Projects should represent advanced research in the Italian Renaissance, broadly defined as the period ranging from the 13th to the 17th centuries, and deal with drawings, prints, or illustrated manuscripts. Projects must also represent the role that these works may have played in the creative process, the history of taste and collecting, or questions of connoisseurship.