
Available Fellowships
Long-Term Awards | Short-Term Awards | Travel Grants and Exchange Fellowships
Long-Term Awards
The Huntington offers 13 long-term fellowships for nine to 12 months in residence, each with a stipend of $50,000. Although nine of these are open to scholars working on projects in any area where The Huntington’s collections are strong, there are specific awards for maritime history (the Kemble Fellowship), the history of medicine (the Molina Fellowship), and the history of science (the Dibner Fellowship). Three awards (the Thom Fellowships) are reserved for recent postdoctoral scholars.
Long-term fellows are expected to be in continuous residence at The Huntington, present at a two-day introductory symposium in September, and participate in weekly working group sessions from October to May.
Eligibility: Only those who hold a Ph.D. or who have successfully defended a dissertation by the application deadline are eligible.
Tenure of fellowship: Between nine and 12 months
Value of award: $50,000
Dibner Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington’s collections in the history of science and technology.
Dana and David Dornsife Fellowship
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington’s collections. Preference may be given to projects in the history of the American West in general and of California in particular.
Kemble Fellowship in Maritime History
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington’s collections in maritime history. Relevant fields might include the history of oceans and oceanography, coastlines and littorals, and global trade and migration.
Mellon Fellowship
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington’s collections.
Molina Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington’s collections in the history of medicine and related sciences, including public health.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships
Eligibility: Applicants must be citizens of the United States or foreign nationals with a minimum of three years of U.S. residence.
Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington’s collections.
Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowships
Eligibility: Nontenured faculty
The Thom Fellowships are intended to support nontenured faculty who are revising their dissertation for publication as their first monograph. Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington’s collections and must have received the Ph.D. between Jan. 1, 2019, and Dec. 31, 2021.
Short-Term Awards
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates; master’s students in programs requiring a thesis; faculty members; postdoctoral scholars; and independent researchers working on a scholarly project served by our collections.
Tenure of fellowship: Between one and five months
Value of award: $3,500 per month
Note: Applicants do not need to mention specific fellowships in their applications. However, we do offer a number of specialized fellowships, which include (but are not limited to):
- Octavia E. Butler Fellowship for the study of Octavia E. Butler, science fiction and/or her archives
- Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowships in the history and literature of Renaissance England
- The Cheng Fellowship in the History of the Asian American Experience in the United States
- The Trent R. Dames Fellowship in the History of Civil Engineering
- The Dibner Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology
- The Duncan Gleason Fellowship in California Maritime History
- Huntington Fellowship in the Materiality of Print Culture
- Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowships
- The Gloria R. Lothrop Fellowship in Western American Women’s History
- The Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas
- The Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellowship
- The Francis J. Weber Research Fellowship in Roman Catholic History
- The Howard and Dawn Weinbrot Research Fellowship for the study of Eighteenth-Century British Society and Culture
The Alan Jutzi Residential Fellowship for Non-Traditional Scholars
Eligibility: Independent scholars who are neither affiliated with nor retired from an academic institution.
Tenure of fellowship: Between one and two months
Value of award: $3,500 per month
The Elizabeth B. Motika Fellowship in Architectural History
This new fellowship will provide one to two months of support for nontraditional scholars to conduct research in The Huntington’s architectural collections. This fellowship firmly supports The Huntington’s mission to increase access to our collections by welcoming nontraditional scholars. Further, the research fellowship is inspired by and complements the study of collections like the Greene and Greene, Wallace Neff, and Florence Yoch collections.
Travel Grants and Exchange Fellowships for Study Abroad
Travel Grants
Exchange Fellowships
The following fellowships operate on a different funding model:
The Huntington offers several joint professorships and collaborative fellowships with other institutions and organizations. See Joint Professorships/Collaborative Fellowships for more information.