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The Russian Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 3, 6 and 8-month stay in RIAS-MPSU (Moscow, Russia). The Institute for Advanced Study supports the determined, self-directed work of the researchers from all over the world. The fellows working in international multidisciplinary scientific community get a unique opportunity for advanced study in the finest research conditions in a comfortable RIAS campus.

The latest round, for visits between August 2026 and July 2027, is now open, and will close on 27 February 2026. Apply here: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-form

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, invites applications for its 2026-2027 Fellowship Program. The Center seeks to promote a better understanding of all aspects of the institution of slavery from the earliest times to the present.

In this call for proposals, you can apply for three- or four-year project grants for individual research projects. The call aims to enhance understanding of how governance, legislation, coordination, and policy development can be shaped and implemented to support improved conditions for public health, preventive and health-promoting efforts. A total of SEK 50 million is allocated for the years 2024–2027.

Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts invites applications for a two-year, non-renewable Florence Kay Postdoctoral Fellowship at the rank of Lecturer in African and African Diaspora Art, beginning in the Fall 2019. We welcome a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on African and African Diaspora Art History.

The Penn Program in Environmental Humanities is now inviting applications for our second two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. We seek applicants whose research, teaching, and public engagements support and complement PPEH’s core commitments:

The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies supports the Crown Fellowship, an award given annually to a Northwestern graduate student whose research bears on some aspect of Jewish history, culture, or religion. The award includes a tuition scholarship and monthly stipend.

This programme is not currently accepting applications.

The Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, invites applications for Early Career Fellowships.

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, one of the leading research universities in Europe, with a more than 500-year-long tradition, is advertising up to five research fellowships for scholars active in global history. The university is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in research and teaching. Fellows will be based at the interdisciplinary Munich Centre for Global History (GLOBAL_HIST). During their stay, they will work on a research project in global history or its neighbouring fields. Fellows have no teaching obligation.

Bard Graduate Center in New York City invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Islamic art and material culture. BGC is a graduate research institute committed to the study of the cultural history of the material world, drawing on methodologies and approaches from art and design history, economic and cultural history, history of technology, philosophy, anthropology, and archaeology.