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Faculty Fellowships

Numerous fellowships are available to current and recent graduates as well as faculty and staff, enabling individuals to pursue research and scholarly endeavors. A few programs are listed below.

Several fellowships are available for faculty at varying stages of their career including:

Fulbright Scholarships

Fulbright Scholars build their skills and connections, gain valuable international insights, and return home to share their experiences with their students and colleagues. Scholars come from and go to all institution types and geographic regions across the United States and around the world. Specific programs are available for postdoctoral scholars and education administrators in addition to faculty at all levels. More information can be found here.

Guggenheim Fellowship

The Guggenheim program is intended for mid-career individuals across all disciplines who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts and exhibit great promise for their future endeavors. Further details can be found here.

Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Fellowship

This program supports early-career faculty whose research focuses on contemporary American history, politics, culture, and society, and it enables junior faculty to pursue tenure effectively while continuing to engage in campus leadership and service. For more information, visit their website.

National Endowment for the Arts

Among the many programs available through the NEA, the Creative Writing Fellowships enable creative writers to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. For more information about this and other NEA programs, visit their website.

National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Further details and deadlines can be found online.

Smithsonian Fellowships

Fellowships are offered to individuals who design and develop proposals to conduct independent research in fields pursued by and of interest to the Institution. Details regarding types of fellowships and resources can be found online.

Numerous fellowships are available to current and recent graduates as well as faculty and staff, enabling individuals to pursue research and scholarly endeavors. A few programs are listed below.

Several fellowships are available for faculty at varying stages of their career including: