Newberry Short-Term Fellowships
Researchers with short-term fellowships spend one to two months investigating specific collection items that are essential to their scholarship. These fellowship opportunities are open to scholars at the ABD stage and beyond.
General Fellowships
Short-Term Residential Fellowships for Individual Research
Supporting scholars who demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry collection.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Scholars working in any field. Graduate student applicants must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
Fellows' Fellowship
Supporting scholars who demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry collection.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Scholars working in any field. Graduate student applicants must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
The John S. Aubrey Fellowship
Supporting scholars who demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry collection.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Scholars working in any field. Graduate student applicants must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
The Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Fellowship
Newberry-ACM Fellowships are open to all qualified candidates, while encouraging applications from individuals from underrepresented groups in the professoriate, including African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders, first generation college students, and individuals who have followed non-traditional pathways to college.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Tenure-track or tenured faculty members from ACM-member institutions who demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry’s collection.
Deadline: December 15
Topic-Specific Fellowships
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Fellowship
Supporting scholars who wish to study the period between 1660 and 1815 and demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry’s collection.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Applicants must be members of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the time of the application and through the period of the fellowship.
Deadline: December 15
The Charles Montgomery Gray Fellowship
Supporting scholars who demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry collection. This fellowship is open to all fields of study, with preference given to projects in the early modern period or Renaissance, as well as in English history, legal history, or European history.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Postdoctoral scholars and PhD candidates. Graduate students must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
The Adele Hast Fellowship in American History
Supporting scholars working on projects related to American History who demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry’s collection.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Postdoctoral scholars and PhD candidates. Graduate students must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
The Arthur and Janet Holzheimer Fellowship in the History of Cartography
Supporting scholars working on projects related to the history of cartography or projects focusing on cartographic materials in the Newberry’s collection.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Postdoctoral scholars and PhD candidates. Graduate students must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
The Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) Fellowship
Supporting scholars working on projects in literary and cultural criticism.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Applicants must be members of the Midwest Modern Language Association at the time of the application and through the period of the fellowship. Graduate students must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) Fellowship
Supporting scholars working in environmental history who demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry collection.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Applicants must be members of the American Society for Environmental History at the time of the application and through the period of the fellowship. Graduate students must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies Fellowships
Supporting one postdoctoral scholar and one PhD candidate working on a project in medieval, Renaissance, or early modern studies.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Postdoctoral scholars and PhD candidates. Graduate student applicants must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
Jack Miller Center Fellowships
Supporting scholars whose projects advance scholarship in fields of study that will contribute to a deeper understanding of America’s founding principles, history, and wider traditions that influenced its development.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Postdoctoral scholars and PhD candidates. Graduate students must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
The Anne Jacobson Schutte Fellowship in Early Modern Studies
This fellowship commemorates Schutte’s renowned scholarship and is available to early-career scholars studying the early modern period (1300-1700). Preference given to early career scholars in all fields of study with research related to women’s studies, spirituality, or Venice.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Postdoctoral scholars and PhD candidates. Graduate students must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Illinois Fellowship
Supporting scholars whose project is related to early American or Transatlantic history.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Postdoctoral scholars and PhD candidates. Graduate students must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
Fellowships for Scholars of North American Indian Heritage
The Frances C. Allen Fellowship
Supporting women of American Indian heritage. Preference for this award is given to non-tenured women working in any graduate or pre-professional field. Scholars working in all fields are welcome to apply.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 - 2 months
Who can apply: Women of American Indian heritage. Postdoctoral scholars and PhD candidates. Graduate students must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
The Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellowship
Supporting scholars of American Indian heritage. Scholars working in all fields are welcome to apply.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Scholars of American Indian heritage. Graduate students must be ABD by the application deadline.
Deadline: December 15
Fellowships for Writers, Artists, and Other Humanists
The Jan and Frank Cicero Fellowship
Offering one month of support for a person working in the visual and performing arts who wishes to advance their artistic practice through the use of the Newberry collection.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Artists and performers including (but not limited to) painters, sculptors, choreographers, dramaturgs, creative writers, composers, and others in artistic fields.
Deadline: December 15
The Arthur and Lila Weinberg Fellowship for Independent Researchers
This fellowship is for writers, journalists, filmmakers, visual and performing artists, and other humanists who wish to use the Newberry’s collection to further their creative work. Preference is given to individuals working on projects that focus on social justice or reform.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Applicants must be individuals working outside of traditional academic settings.
Deadline: December 15
The Historical Fiction Writing Fellowship
Offering one month of support for a person working in the area of historical fiction. We encourage applications relating to a wide range of historical fiction including novels, short stories, plays and theatrical works, or poetry.
Stipend: $3,000/month
Length: 1 month
Who can apply: Writers of historical fiction.
Deadline: December 15
