External Fellowships & Grants
One of the Franco Institute’s primary goals is to assist scholars in the College of Arts & Letters in securing external grants for research, creative work, and academic conferences. Thanks to the Institute’s efforts in this area, Notre Dame has become a leader in winning major national fellowships in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Research development services
For faculty wishing to apply for a grant or fellowship, the Franco Institute offers proposal development services, including project-specific searches for funding opportunities and critiques of draft proposals.
The Institute maintains a database of funding opportunities, resource kits for particular grants and fellowships, and a library of successful proposals. We also offer workshops, webinars, and writing retreats for faculty throughout each academic year.
Contact Kevin Gallin (kgallin@nd.edu), assistant director of research development, for help with proposals.
Grant resource kits
The Franco Institute has created resource kits to assist faculty with a variety of external grants and fellowship opportunities. Faculty may access this password-protected page using their NetID login through the left-side navigation.
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Premium External Fellowships
American Academy in Rome, Rome Prize Fellowship
“For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the prize is awarded to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence and who are in the early or middle stages of their careers.”
Fellows specialize in a range of fields, from ancient studies and architecture to literature, medieval studies, and visual arts.
Application submitted in November. Finalist interviews in February - March. Fellowships announced in April.
American Antiquarian Society Fellowship
“The American Antiquarian Society offers three broad categories of visiting research fellowships, with tenures ranging from one to twelve months.
All of the fellowships are designed to enable academic and independent scholars and advanced graduate students to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library. Discussing this work with staff and other readers is a hallmark of an AAS fellowship.”
Application deadlines vary by program from October to January. See website for a list of programs and deadlines.
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
“We solicit applications from scholars pursuing research on topics grounded in any time period, world region, or humanistic methodology. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant, which can take the form of a monograph, one or more articles, a publicly engaged humanities project, a digital research project, a critical edition, or other scholarly resources. ACLS Fellowships support projects at any stage of development—early, middle, or late.
ACLS aims to select fellows who are broadly representative of the variety of humanistic scholarship across all fields of study. We welcome and encourage applications from all eligible scholars, regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, disability, age, or any aspect of identity. We also encourage applications from scholars across the range of academic institutions and beyond. In ACLS’s peer review, funding packages, and engagement with fellows, we aspire to enact our values of equity and inclusion as integral components of scholarly excellence.”
Applications and reference letters submitted in mid September.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Fellowship
“For 139 years, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens has served American post-graduate education as one of the preeminent overseas research institutions devoted to the advanced study of all aspects of Greek culture from antiquity to the present day. The broad mission of the School has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching, research, archaeological exploration, publication, and dissemination of research.”
The American School offers various residential fellowships to graduate students and faculty.
Check website for a list of opportunities and deadlines.
Andrew Carnegie Fellowship
“Each year the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program recognizes a select group of extraordinary scholars and writers who receive philanthropic support for scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society.”
Candidates for the fellowship are referred by a Carnegie Corporation-designated nominator. Fellows are chosen from among nominees by a selection committee.
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford Fellowship
“The Center offers a residential fellowship program for scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines that contribute to advancing research and thinking in social science. Fellows represent the core social and behavioral sciences (anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology) but also the humanities, education, linguistics, communications, and the biological, natural, health, and computer sciences.”
Applications submitted in late October. Fellows announced in February.
Folger Shakespeare Library Institute Fellowship
“The Folger’s extraordinary collections are essential to understanding the humanities and their continued resonance and importance in our world. The Fellowships Program brings our rare and historic art, books, costumes, manuscripts, periodicals, prints, and visual resources immediately to life. We put scholars, artists, performers, and practitioners into direct and sustained engagement with the collections, with our many innovative digital resources, and with one another.”
Application for Long-Term Fellowships are due in December. Applications for Short-Term Fellowships are due in January.
Fulbright Scholar Award
Fulbright Scholar Awards support US citizens’ research abroad. Scholars may use the award to teach, research, attend seminars, or engage in other professional projects. Awards vary in duration and location.
Applications submitted in September.
Getty Foundation Residential Grants and Fellowship
The Getty Foundation offers several grants and fellowships to support scholars, artists, and writers working in the visual arts at the Getty Research Institute or the Getty Villa.
Applications to the Getty Scholars Program is currently paused due to renovations. The Getty Villa and Getty Conservation Institute will continue to accept applications for residential scholars in 2027–2028. For more information on those funding opportunities, visit the Residential Grants page.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
“Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. Fellowships are awarded through an annual competition open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada.”
Applications submitted in September.
Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies - I Tatti Fellowship
“Fifteen I Tatti Fellowships, each for twelve months, are available annually for post-doctoral research in any aspect of the Italian Renaissance broadly understood historically to include the period from the 14th to the 17th century, and geographically to include transnational dialogues between Italy and other cultures (e.g. Latin American, Mediterranean, African, Asian etc.).” The Center also offers a variety of short-term fellowships.
Applications submitted in October.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship
Humboldt Fellowships support scholars in all disciplines who want to conduct research in Germany.
Applications reviewed on multiple dates throughout the year.
Huntington Library Fellowship
“The Huntington Library awards over 150 research fellowships annually. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at The Huntington and to participate in, and make a contribution to, its intellectual life. The Huntington is a collections-based research institute, which promotes humanities scholarship on the basis of its library holdings and art collections. The Library holds more than eleven million items that span the 11th to 21st centuries.”
Applications submitted in November. Fellowship year begins in July.
Institute for Advanced Study Membership
The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton awards memberships of varying length to scholars and scientists from around the world. Through the work of its schools (Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Historical Studies, and Mathematics), the Institute aims to foster a community of scholars across disciplines.
Application information varies by program and school.
Israel Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship
The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies welcomes scholars from around the world in any area of research for 5- or 10-month residencies. Fellows must be in residence at the IIAS in Jerusalem.
Applications submitted in December.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
“NEH Fellowships are competitive awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing. Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.
Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development.”
Applications submitted in April.
National Gallery of Art - Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Senior Fellowship)
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts offers residential fellowships for each academic year. Fellowships support research in “the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts...of any geographical area and of any period.”
Applications submitted in October.
National Humanities Center Fellowship
“Each year the National Humanities Center welcomes up to forty scholars from across the humanities and all over the world. During their time in residence, Fellows are given the freedom to work on their projects while benefiting from the exceptional services of the Center.”
Applications submitted in October.
Newberry Library Fellowship
“The Newberry’s long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. Fellows have access to the Newberry’s wide-ranging and rare archival materials as well as to a lively, interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians.”
Applications for Long-Term Fellowships submitted in November.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
“Radcliffe Fellows are individuals at different stages of their careers who come to the Institute from across the United States and around the world and represent a broad range of academic, professional, and artistic fields. Fellows work on an individual project—a novel, a film, a map of the Milky Way—while mining and deepening the knowledge, ingenuity, and talent of the Harvard University community. Projects range from the poetic to the cosmic. Past fellows include Jill Lepore, Samantha Power, Zadie Smith, Elizabeth Warren, and the Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer.”
Applications submitted in September.
Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar Program
“The Russell Sage Foundation has established a center where Visiting Scholars can pursue their writing and research. Each year, the Russell Sage Foundation invites a numhber of scholars to its New York headquarters to investigate topics in social and behavioral sciences. The Foundation particularly welcomes groups of scholar who wish to collaborate on a specific project during their residence at Russell Sage. While Visiting Scholars typically work on projects related to the Foundation’s current programs, a number of scholars whose research falls outside the Foundation’s active programs also participate.”
Applications submitted in June.
Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship
“Through an international competition, the Center offers 9-month residential fellowships. The Wilson Center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists and public intellectuals to take part in its flagship international Fellowship Program. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington and Wilson Center staff and other scholars in residence. The Center accepts policy-relevant, non-advocacy fellowship proposals that address key challenges confronting the United States and the world.”
Applications submitted in late September.