Research and Fellowships
News from the Director of Research
December 2024 | As the year winds down and we prepare to observe the holidays, the Research division celebrates a successful fall term of scholarship, conferences, and lectures. Our long-term fellows have settled into their routines of working in the Library’s magnificent collections, meeting weekly to workshop their projects with one another, explorin g Southern California’s rich art and cultural offerings (and nature), and enjoying personalized tours of The Huntington’s collections.
Also in this issue:
- Highlights from fall 2024
- A look ahead to 2025, including our conference in January
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.
The Mormons in Black and White: Racial Mixing among the Latter-day Saints
Breaking Curfew: Everyday Japanese American Resistance during World War II
Out of the Woodwork: U.S. Forests and Black Cultures, 1800–1940
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
Shapiro Book Prize Lecture: “Happy Dreams of Liberty”
Why It Matters: Darren Walker in Conversation with Karen R. Lawrence
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 2024–25 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 13 individuals, including (from left) Serena Zabin (Carleton College), Jonathan Hsy (George Washington University), writer and historian Megan Kate Nelson, Susan Amussen (University of California, Merced), Nayan Shah (USC), Alison Hirsch (USC), and Susan Scott Parrish (University of Michigan). | 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.