The Science History Institute offers a variety of fellowships and travel grants as described below.
Applications for fellowships are now open; the deadline to apply is January 15, 2026. Travel grant applications are accepted year-round.
For further information contact fellowships@sciencehistory.org or travelgrants@sciencehistory.org.
Gonville & Caius College intends to elect two Research Fellows in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in 2026. Candidates should be postgraduate students or post-doctoral researchers who will either be in their final year of doctoral research or not more advanced than one year since the first submission of their PhD. Research Fellowships are awarded to individuals with an exceptionally strong academic record who have produced innovative doctoral research in any area of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
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.
The Mellon Foundation Fellowship
Supporting scholarship in any field relevant to the Newberry’s collection.
Stipend: $5,000/month
Length: 4 - 9 months
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.
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. The Center will award one fellowship every two years.