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The Thomas Arthur Arnold Fund for Excellence in Historical Research at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel, will award two one-year post-doctoral fellowships, of $30,000 each, in historical studies, for the academic year 2019-2020.

Fellows will conduct their research under the supervision of a senior faculty member from the School of History or from the department of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University.  Fellows are expected to reside in the Tel Aviv area. Tel Aviv University PhD holders are not eligible.

The Dan David Foundation in collaboration with the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University, will award a one-year postdoctoral fellowship of $30,000 for the 2019-2020 academic year. The Dan David Foundation will give preference to candidates whose research focuses on the history of gender studies.

Fellows will conduct their research under the supervision of a senior faculty member from the School of History, Tel Aviv University. They are expected to reside in the Tel Aviv area. Tel Aviv-University PhD holders are not eligible.

The Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (FMSH) and the Institut Français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) offer post-doctoral fellows residing in France, a mobility grant to carry out a 2-month research stay in the Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan, Palestinian Territories, Iraqi Kurdistan).

Priority will be given to research projects that are in line with IPFO's scientific policy, in synergy with its researchers or partners in the Middle East. Interdisciplinary projects are welcome.

La Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) et le Centre des Etudes Mexicaines et Centraméricaines (CEMCA) proposent à des postdoctorants résidant en France, une aide à la mobilité pour réaliser un séjour de recherche de 2 mois au Mexique ou en Amérique centrale (Nicaragua, Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Belize) ayant soutenu leur thèse à partir de 2018.

La période de candidature pour le concours des pensionnaires au titre de l'année 2026-2027 est ouverte du 4 septembre 2025 à 12h au 15 octobre 2025 à 12h (heure France métropolitaine).

Chaque année, l’Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis organise un concours international qui vise à sélectionner les pensionnaires qui seront accueillis à la Villa Médicis à Rome pour une résidence de création, d’expérimentation et de recherche de 12 mois (début de la résidence en septembre, fin en août).

No applications are currently being accepted

The Smuts Memorial Fund elects one Smuts Visiting Research Fellow a year, in association with Clare Hall, to come to Cambridge to carry out research for 9 months.

Fellowship holders are expected to live in Cambridge for the bulk of their tenure and accommodation is normally offered by the College.

A NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group (NLTG) is an international group of three researchers including the coordinator. All NLTG members hold fellowships at NIAS, providing them the opportunity to work as a team and engage in the kind of intensive interdisciplinary collaboration that is often difficult to realize in a regular academic setting. They specifically work as a group on cutting-edge research that bridges the divide between the humanities and/or social sciences and the natural, life and/or technological sciences.

Postdoctoral Fellowship/African American Urban.  Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE).  The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University seeks a scholar in the humanities and/or social sciences doing history-related research in African American urban studies.  The fellow will pursue his/her own research project; interact with faculty, graduate and undergraduate students; and collaborate with the director on current center projects.

The Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative invites academics, journalists, and professionals to apply for the Mercator-IPC Fellowship Program. The program aims to strengthen academic, political, and social ties between Turkey and Germany, as well as between Turkey and Europe, based on the premise that the acquisition of knowledge and the exchange of people and ideas are preconditions for meeting the challenges of a globalized world.