Research and Fellowships
News from the Director of Research
May 2025 | You’ll notice two new changes to our Research Division newsletter: the bold font and color scheme of our just-launched Huntington brand, and more content, thanks to the efforts of our new Assistant Director of Research, Shannon McHugh. Under Shannon’s leadership, we’re expanding the newsletter to feature more stories about the fellows. We want you to get to know our fellows and to learn more about the research they’re conducting in our collections.
Susan Juster, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Using the Collections
Academic Conferences and Lectures
The Huntington hosts academic conferences and lectures every year open to the public. Program details are available approximately two months prior to the conference date.
Early Books’ Migration: European Upheaval and American Collections
Peregrine Tyam and Mrs. Mary Verney: Patriarchy and Race in Late 17th-Century England
Out of the Woodwork: U.S. Forests and Black Cultures, 1800–1940
The Mormons in Black and White: Racial Mixing among the Latter-day Saints
Breaking Curfew: Everyday Japanese American Resistance during World War II
The Whites-Only Immigration Regime
Goya’s Portraits and a New Prize for The Huntington
The Other California: Land, Loss, Labor, Liberated Futures along Phantom Shores
Underrepresented Voices in the Archive
The Huntington’s Exchange Fellowships Partners Webinar
The Magellan Exchange: How America and China Have Made Each Other
Fellowships
The Huntington Library awards over 150 research fellowships annually. Applicants for long-term (9-11 month academic year or 4-5 month academic term) fellowships must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. at the time of application. Short-term fellowships (one to three months) are open to graduate students; faculty members; postdoctoral scholars; and independent researchers. Travel grants/exchange fellowships (for study abroad) are open to doctoral candidates who have advanced to candidacy (ABD) at the time of the application deadline, to faculty members, and other postdoctoral scholars.
Welcoming the 2025–26 Huntington Research Fellows
The Huntington annually welcomes approximately 150 long- and short-term research fellows, selected through a competitive, peer-review process that provides $1.4 million in awards. These fellows are among the roughly 2,000 scholars in the fields of history, literature, botanical science, art history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine who come from around the world each year to conduct academic research in The Huntington’s collections.
This year, The Huntington has awarded long-term research fellowships to individuals, including (from left) Feier Ying (Brown University), Craig Santos Perez (Miracosta College), Wendy Kline (Purdue University), Alaina Morgan (USC), Sandy Rodriguez (Artist), Scott Doebler (Pomona College), and Sonia Gomez (Santa Clara University). | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
209 Books Published by Fellows
Huntington fellowships support quality research that advances scholarship in the humanities and makes use of The Huntington’s extensive archival and rare book collections. Since 1995, there have been 209 books published by long-term fellows.