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The Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is pleased to offer four Solmsen Fellowships for the academic year 2025-2026, to be awarded to scholars from outside the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Through a generous bequest from Friedrich and Lieselotte Solmsen, the Solmsen Fellowships sponsor scholars working in the humanities on European history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, art and culture in the classical, medieval, and/or early modern periods before 1700.

Applications are invited by Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) for the award of fellowships to scholars to pursue research in (i) India: Recent Historical Trends and Developments (ii) India in Transition: Issues and Challenges (iii) India and the Wider World

These fellowships foster the academic careers of scholars who have recently received their Ph.D. degrees. Fellows pursue their research while gaining mentored experience as teachers and members of the departments or programs in which they are housed. In addition, fellows participate in the Society alongside other postdoctoral scholars and Dartmouth faculty in a spirit of multidisciplinary learning and mutual enrichment. 

A major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has allowed the Schlesinger Library to launch the Long 19th Amendment Project interrogating the centennial of American women’s suffrage.

The grant will fund up to three eight-week residencies each June–July in 2019, 2020, and 2021 for researchers doing advanced work on the gender and suffrage, voting rights, citizenship, or other related topics. Successful projects will draw in meaningful ways on Schlesinger Library collections.

The stipend for each award is $15,000.

The Wythes Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) seeks to hire a social science scholar working on China.  While the position is open to rank, preference will be given to early-career scholars from the social sciences whose scholarship and teaching combine disciplinary expertise, methodological rigor, and deep regional knowledge of China (including the ability to read, write, and speak Chinese). 

The WiRe-Women in Research fellowship programme of the University of Münster’s Welcome Centre is delighted to again offer several WiRe Fellowships for international female postdoctoral researchers from all over the world. WiRe was founded to address the unique challenges facing women in research with a special focus on female Postdocs. Throughout the duration of the fellowship, participants conduct their research in cooperation with a professor at the University of Münster (WWU) in Germany.

Fortes call for visiting researcher grants aims to contribute to development and learning and promote knowledge exchange from the international research community to Swedish research within Forte’s areas of focus. In total, around SEK 5 million is reserved for this call.

The Lilly Library is accepting applications for fellowships to support travel during the 2024 calendar year. Applicants for the Helm and Mendel Visiting Fellowships will be notified of the results of their Fellowship applications before December 1, 2023. Those applying for the BSI Trust Research Fellowships will be notified by November 1, 2023.

All Souls College invites applications for up to six Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships, two in Life or Environmental Sciences, and one in each of the following subjects: History since 1800; History of Art or Music or Science (excluding History of Medicine); Mathematics; and Social Anthropology.   Those elected will be expected to take up their Fellowships on 1 October 2023 or such other date as may be agreed in advance with the College.  The Fellowships are for five years, fixed-term, and non-renewable.