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Call for Applications | Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellowships

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On May 7, 2025

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The Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, an interdisciplinary group of scholars in the humanities and social sciences, invites applications for the 2026-2029 fellowship competition. Applications are welcome for the following fellowships:

  • Two or three Open Fellowships in any discipline represented in the Society
  • One Fellowship in Humanistic Studies
  • One Fellowship in East Asian Studies

Applicants may be considered for more than one fellowship category pertinent to their research and teaching. The Society’s website provides additional details on the fellowships, eligibility, disciplines, and application dossier, and we recommend that applicants review this information before submitting an application.

Appointed as Associate Research Scholars in the Council of the Humanities for three years, fellows pursue their research, attend weekly seminars and teach in academic departments. In each of the first two years, fellows teach one undergraduate course per semester, pending approval by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty; in their third year, they teach only one course in either semester. When teaching, fellows will carry the secondary rank of Lecturer.

Applicants holding the Ph.D. at the time of application must have received the degree after January 1, 2024. Applicants not yet holding the Ph.D. are expected to have completed a substantial portion of the dissertation – at least half – at the time of application. Successful candidates must fulfill all requirements for the Ph.D., including filing of the dissertation, by June 15, 2026. Candidates for/recipients of doctoral degrees in Education, Jurisprudence, and from Princeton University are not eligible. Applicants may apply only once to the Princeton Society of Fellows.

Selection is based on exceptional scholarly achievement and evidence of unusual promise, range and quality of teaching experience, and potential contributions to an interdisciplinary community. The Society of Fellows seeks a diverse and international pool of applicants.

Applicants are asked to submit an application by August 5, 2025 (11:59 p.m. ET) to the online portal.

The number of fellowships offered each year is contingent on funding. The work location for these positions is in-person on campus at Princeton University, and the positions are subject to the University’s background check policy.

Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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SHA Dissertation Research Scholarship | Society of Historical Archaeologists

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On April 8, 2025

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SHA Dissertation Research Scholarship | April 15, 2025 Deadline

This program will place priority on awarding scholarships for students needing to travel or conduct research to complete their dissertation in Historical Archaeology. For this scholarship, historical archaeology is defined as the study of the material remains of past societies that also left behind some other form of historical evidence from the fifteenth century to the present. Typical awards are between $500 and $2000.

Applicants should be aware that if they receive financial aid from their university, their eligibility for various other sources of aid may be affected upon receipt of a scholarship. Applicants are encouraged to consult with their university’s financial aid office before applying.

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SBA x Center for Field Sciences | Scholarship Announcement

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On March 3, 2025

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Carrel Cowan-Ricks’ Scholarships

The Carrel Cowan-Ricks’ Scholarships supported by the Center for Field Sciences will support TWO undergraduate or graduate student members of the Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA) to participate in an archaeological field school. Recipients are strongly encouraged to attend field school offered by the Center for Field Sciences, but this scholarship may be applied to a field school of the recipient’s choice. The Carrel Cowan-Ricks’ Scholarship is intended for those with financial need. Each scholarship is valued at $2,000 USD.

Application Link: Carrel Cowan-Ricks’ Scholarships

Applicant Requirements:

  • Finalists will be interviewed by the President of SBA
  • Must be a current and paid Member of the SBA
  • Must be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at an accredited college or university in the United States or in a U.S. Territory
  • This scholarship is intended for those with financial need

Carrel Cowan-Ricks

Professor Carrell Cowan-Ricks was a groundbreaking Black woman archaeologist. Cowan-Ricks entered the Anthropology Ph.D. program at Wayne State during the early 1990s, becoming one of three African American women with a graduate degree in archaeology in the United States at the time. In 1991, Cowan-Ricks was hired by Clemson University to locate unmarked African American Burials at the Woodland Cemetery. However, in 1993, Cowan-Ricks was fired from Clemson University due to budget cuts. This scholarship is intended to honor the work and legacy of Cowan-Ricks and other under-recognized African American women in the field of archaeology.

For more information about the life and legacy of Professor Carrell Cowan-Ricks, please see this article by Clemson University.

The deadline for applications for the Carrel Cowan-Ricks’ scholarships is MARCH 20th, 2025.

Please direct questions to the SBA Secretary at secretary@societyofblackarchaeologists.com

SBA x Institute for Field Research | Scholarship Announcement

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On March 3, 2025

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George McJunkin Scholarship

The George McJunkin Scholarship, supported by the Institute for Field Research, will support ONE undergraduate or graduate student member of the Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA) to participate in an archaeological field school. This scholarship may only be applied to a field school offered by the Institute for Field Research. The scholarship will cover the full cost of the application and IFR field school fees, minus transportation expenses.

Applicant Requirements:

  • Must be a current and paid Member of the SBA
  • Must be at least 18 years old by the first day of the field school program.
  • Must have demonstrated financial need.
  • Must be accepted into an IFR field school.
  • All applications must apply directly to a field school with IFR through their website using an SBA code.

George McJunkin

George McJunkin was an African American cowboy, historian, and archaeologist. McJunkin was born enslaved in Texas before the end of the U.S. Civil War. After Emancipation, he became a cowboy and later discovered the Folsom Site–a site which fundamentally changed how archaeologists have understood the history of Indigenous Peoples on the North American continent. Although McJunkin died in 1922, his discovery of the Folsom Site and advocacy for its preservation remains one of the greatest contributions made to the field of archaeology. This scholarship is intended to honor the life and legacy of McJunkin and other under-recognized African Americans in the field of archaeology.

The deadline for applications is APRIL 1, 2025. All interested applicants need to email the SBA Secretary at secretary@societyofblackarchaeologists.com to confirm current and paid SBA membership and to receive a code to apply through the IFR website.

Once you receive the code you can visit the IFR website to apply for the scholarship.

$5 Million Mellon Grant Fuels Next Phase of CLIR’s Effort to Unearth Hidden Histories

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On March 3, 2025

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$5 Million Mellon Grant Fuels Next Phase of CLIR’s Effort to Unearth Hidden Histories

Fourth Cycle of Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices Expands Access to Marginalized Stories

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has received a $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to launch the fourth cycle of its Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices (DHC:AUV) program. This initiative, which dedicates $4 million to regranting funds, is committed to uncovering and preserving stories that have long been silenced, erased, or inaccessible.

Designed to elevate the voices and histories of often overlooked communities, DHC:AUV has already funded projects illuminating the experiences of Chinese laborers during the Chinese Exclusion Act, the history of hip-hop and street dance, the realities of incarceration during COVID-19, Black community histories in cities across the U.S. Other past grants have supported the digitization of materials documenting trans-BIPOC experiences, the creative works of developmentally disabled artists, and numerous overlooked narratives.

The next call for proposals will open in August, inviting eligible nonprofit organizations across the United States and Canada to apply. Projects must align with the program’s core values: public knowledge, broad representation, authentic partnerships, sustainable infrastructures, and community-centered access. By providing funding to academic, independent, and community-based organizations, CLIR seeks to break barriers to archival access and democratize historical knowledge.

“Documentary heritage is a cornerstone of all democratic societies and is an essential resource for supporting economic, social, legal, and cultural domains and fostering innovation,” said CLIR board chair Dr. Guy Berthiaume. “Thanks to the support of the Mellon Foundation and CLIR, partner institutions will be able to offer immediate and unlimited access to documentary resources fundamental to our understanding of the world around us.”

CLIR President Charles Henry added, “This generous Mellon Foundation award allows CLIR to continue to enrich our collective history, to augment with rigor and compassion the narratives that shape our identity, empower our agency, and instill harmony to once silent voices.”

A rigorous, months-long review process–led by an independent panel of scholars and practitioners from the United States and Canada–will evaluate proposals. Applicants receive support throughout the process and constructive feedback on their proposals, regardless of funding status. For full details, eligibility criteria, and application deadlines, visit Apply for An Award or sign up for CLIR’s Grants and Programs mailing list for updates.

 

Groningen Faculty of Arts Research Fellowship Program 2025

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On February 19, 2025

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The Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen has introduced a new Fellowship programme. We invite early career researchers to come to our vibrant city to make connections: with our researchers, with our students and with the residents of Groningen. To share their expertise and learn from ours, to strengthen and expand scientific networks, give expert lectures, collaborate in publications and to explore possibilities for a joint grant application.

What can be applied for

Candidates who want to hold their fellowship in the Groningen Institute of Archaeology (GIA) can apply in 2025 only for a Junior Fellowship. The Faculty of Arts offers four Junior Fellowships each year.

Fellows will receive:

  1. Guest status (OEP), providing access to all UG facilities, including the University Library, printers and flexible desk space;
  2. A bench fee up to €3,000,- for a maximum of one semester, to cover:
    1. Travel expenses;
    2. Accommodation expenses;
    3. Costs concerning the application for a Visa.

Please note that reimbursement of expenses will be paid out provided that receipts are available. All costs that exceed the funding amount will be at the expense of the Junior Fellow.

How to apply

Candidates for the Fellowship are strongly advised to contact either Prof. Sofia Voutsaki (s.voutsaki@rug.nl) or Dr Anna Moles (a.c.moles@rug.nl)  before Friday March 14, 2025 in order to obtain the application form and make sure that the Institute will be the right environment for their research. General enquiries can also be made by contacting the GIA coordinator at gia@rug.nl.

Candidates can apply by sending the application form before the official submission deadline, i.e. by  Sunday March 30, 2025, 23:59 CEST to the following email address: arts.rfp@rug.nl

The application (max. 500 words) should contain the following:

  1. The reason(s) for a visit to the Faculty of Arts, and to the GIA in particular;
  2. A description of the added value of the visit;
  3. A description of what the Fellow will deliver in exchange for the Fellowship (seminar/public engagement activity/publication/joint grant application/…);
  4. The name of the research institute and the name of at least one research staff member within the Faculty of Arts, and specifically the GIA with whom the Fellow is planning to collaborate.

Fellowhips Flyer 2025

Application form for Fellowships 2025

ASPR Science Communication Fellowship

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On January 23, 2025

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The American School of Prehistoric Research at Harvard University will be organizing a science communication fellowship this spring led by Dr. Bridget Alex.

The program, which will run for about two months in April and May, is intended for students and early career scholars researching Old World prehistory who would like to gain hands-on experience in public writing and multimedia communication. The selected applicants, whom we hope will be regionally diverse, will attend one in-person workshop at Harvard University and several virtual trainings led by professional science writers and journalists. At the end of the fellowship, the participants will have the opportunity to publish a story in SAPIENS magazine about their research.

This will be a great opportunity for scholars of old world prehistory to hone their science communication skills and learn how to make their research accessible to a non-academic audience.

https://sites.harvard.edu/aspr/2024/12/09/aspr-workshop/

Fondazione Lemmermann 2025 Fellowship Award for Research in Rome

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On December 9, 2024

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The Lemmermann Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships to master’s students and doctoral candidates in order to support their cost of research in the classical studies and humanities. Fields of study include but are not limited to Archaeology, History, History of Art, Italian, Latin, Musicology, Philosophy, and Philology. Applicants must provide evidence for their need to study and carry out research in Rome. Topic of research must be related to Rome or the Roman culture from the Pre-Roman period to the present day.

ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must:

  1. be enrolled in a recognized higher education program or affiliated with a research institute;
  2. have a basic knowledge of the Italian language;
  3. be born after March 31st, 1989.

DEADLINE:
Next deadline for sending applications is March 31st, 2025.

STIPEND:
The monthly scholarship amount is established in €750.00.

TO APPLY:
The following documents are required:

  1. A research proposal that includes a description of the area of study;
  2. Two recommendation letters;
  3. A curriculum vitae;
  4. A photocopy of the applicant’s passport, ID Card, or birth certificate.

For more information on how to apply, please view the official posting here.

Position Announcement | Fellowship in Critical Classical Studies

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On December 9, 2024

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The Department of Classics at Brown University invites applications for two (2) two-year, non-renewable Postdoctoral Fellowships in Critical Classical Studies to begin July 1, 2025. We seek junior colleagues with terminal degrees (either Ph.D. or MFA) whose work directly addresses the classicization of the Ancient Greeks and Romans; critiques the structures of power, exclusion, erasure, and violence that have scaffolded past and present models of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (i.e. Classics); and/or speculates about alternative models to studying these ancient cultures and others. Successful applicants will be appointed as Postdoctoral Research Associates.

The Fellowship is open to areas of research and creative practice not traditionally housed within Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (e.g. art, film, creative writing, translation studies, political science, language pedagogy, higher education studies, public humanities, museum studies, indigenous studies, decolonial studies, performance or performance history, music) and to more traditional subfields (e.g. art history, literary studies/philology, archaeology, ancient history, philosophy, reception studies). Ideal candidates position their work’s intervention in relation to other disciplines, fields, institutions, and/or industries. They prioritize making contributions to academic, artistic, and/or activist communities. The work can take the form of traditional scholarship (e.g. monographs and articles) or be pedagogical, public-facing, creative, or otherwise trans/inter/extra-disciplinary.

The fellows selected in this competition will join fellows already in residence and form a community committed to refining methodologies well established at Brown and in the field as well as to co-developing new approaches to Ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

Brown University seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students richly varied disciplines, perspectives, viewpoints, and ways of knowing, learning, and creating. Therefore, the Department of Classics particularly welcomes applications from members of groups that have been minoritized and underrepresented in academia. A required application form asks every applicant to summarize their approach to and experience in creating equitable, diverse, and inclusive communities. This history might include academic teaching, mentoring, and service, activism, or other forms of community engagement and leadership.

In lieu of formal teaching responsibilities, fellows will be given the time and support necessary to complete their projects during the fellowship term and to share those projects with communities on and off-campus. Each fellow should expect to host one departmental event (e.g. lecture, symposium, performance, screening) and one informal event (e.g. workshop, interview, open rehearsal, table read, write-on-site) that prioritize graduate students in the Department of Classics each academic year. They will also participate in regular cohort-building and mentoring activities.

Each fellow will earn a salary of $65,000 in year 1 and $70,000 in year 2. In addition to a full benefits package, each fellow will receive a research fund of $10,000 and access to a shared office space. Fellows are expected to be in residence for the full term of the fellowship and, if applicable, will receive a $3,000 moving allowance to ease the burden of relocation.

Further information, including application details, can be found here.

Any questions should be directed towards the chair of the Search Committee, Dr. Sasha-Mae Eccleston.

Apply Now for an ARCE Fellowship

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On October 23, 2024

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ARCE is Now Accepting US Fellowship Applications For the 2025 Cycle!

Funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural affairs through a grant to the Council of American Overseas Research Center (CAORC), ARCE offers long-term 3 to 12 month fellowships.

These opportunities include but are not limited to:

ARCE-funded fellowships support intellectuals interested in conducting academic research in Egypt on various topics. We invite heritage enthusiats to carry out research in diverse fields such as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, fire art, art history, Coptic studies, economics, Egyptology, history, humanistic social sciences, Islamic studies, literature, political science, religious studies and even music. Our fellows have landed prestigious jobs such as directors and faculty of Middle Eastern studies and history departments at leading universities, in the United States and abroad, and curators of Egyptian and Near Eastern art major museums and research institutions.

Decades of close collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) and Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) enable ARCE to provide fellows with administrative support and advice that eases access to Egyptian museums, monuments, archaeological sites, research libraries, archives and Egyptian institutions of higher education.

Other fellowship opportunities include:

  • The Theodore N. Romanoff Prize for doctoral candidates (ABD) and recent Ph.D. recipients (degree granted between 2018-2023) conducting research on the language or historical texts of ancient Egypt, including the Coptic language.
  • The William P. McHugh Memorial Fund grant for pre-doctoral students regardless of nationality to encourage the study of Egyptian geo-archaeology, paleo-archaeology, and prehistory.
  • Research associates who will receive the same administrative support in terms of clearances, permissions and mentoring as ARCE Fellows, but do not receive funding. 

Make sure to submit your online application by January 5th, 2025 at 11:59 PM PST.

Apply Now

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