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The Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto offers a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships to support advanced research in Jewish Studies. The position will run July 1, 2019 – June 30, 2021. Applicants must have completed their doctoral dissertations by July 1, 2019 on a topic related to the history, culture, literature or thought of the Jewish people. The successful candidate will receive a fellowship of $47,000 (CAD)per year as well as an additional $1500 to support participation in academic conferences.

Researchers with long-term fellowships spend four to nine months immersed in the Newberry collection and in our community of learning. While pursuing significant works of scholarship, they make discoveries, present works in progress, and take their projects to the next level.

General Long-Term Fellowships

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

The Lady Davis Fellowship Trust was established 49 years ago in 1973 to provide an opportunity for Visiting Professors, Post-Doctoral Researchers and Doctoral Students from abroad, regardless of nationality, gender or field of scholarship to teach, study and participate in research in Israel at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa. 

The Lady Davis Trust offers two different Fellowships:

What is a Distinguished NIAS-Lorentz Fellowship?
The Distinguished NIAS-Lorentz Fellowship (DNLF) is awarded annually to a leading researcher to work on innovative research that bridges the humanities and/or social sciences with the natural and/or technological sciences. Distinguished NIAS-Lorentz Fellows are nominated by prominent figures from within the Dutch academic community. The NIAS-Lorentz Fellowship Board evaluates the DNLF nominations.

The Blinken OSA Archivum invites applications for the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA twice a year, in July and in November. The calls are published on this page. More information about the application process can be found below.

The application deadline of the next call will be: 23:59 PM, November 15, 2025.

Fellows undertake a substantive and original project that relates to the ISM’s mission, which may include original scholarship, an art exhibition, a musical composition, or a work of creative writing. Fellows are full-time faculty or scholars with more than six years of experience following the terminal degree.

Candidates are eligible to apply as postdoctoral associates if they have fewer than six years of related experience following the terminal degree and are not yet employed as full-time regular faculty. Like long-term fellows, they undertake a substantive and original project that relates to the ISM’s mission. 

In conjunction with the Rice Seminars, the Humanities Research Center at Rice University hosts yearlong residential fellowships for outstanding junio scholars. The Rice Seminars are designed to promote humanistic research, broadly understood. They bring together a select group of Rice faculty members, visiting faculty, and Rice graduate students to study a common theme from several disciplinary perspectives.