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The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program offers in-residence opportunities for independent research or study related to Smithsonian collections, facilities, and/or research interests of the Institution and its staff.
ELIGIBILITY:
Applicants must propose to conduct research at the Smithsonian in one of its areas of research as outlined in the publication, Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study, for a period of three to twelve months, or ten weeks for the Graduate Student Fellowship. Past or current fellowship recipients are eligible to apply for another award.
No employee or contractor of the Smithsonian Institution may hold a Smithsonian fellowship during the time of his/her employment or contract, nor may an award be offered to any person who has been employed by or under contract to the Institution in the previous year, without the prior approval of the Office of Fellowships & Internships.
Applicants whose native language is not English are expected to have the ability to write and converse fluently in English. All application materials must be presented in English (foreign transcripts may be translated, see below)
TASK DETAILS:
The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program offers fellowships for research and study in the following fields and encourages applications of an interdisciplinary nature:
- Animal behavior, ecology, and environmental science, including an emphasis on the tropics
- Anthropology, including archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and physical anthropology
- Astrophysics and astronomy
- Earth sciences and paleobiology
- Evolutionary & systematic biology
- Folklife
- History of science and technology
- History of art, especially American, contemporary, African, and Asian art, twentieth-century American crafts, and decorative arts
- Materials research
- Molecular biology
- Social and cultural history of the United States
SCHOLARSHIP VALUE:
SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS -for scholars at least seven years beyond the Ph.D.
- Term: 3 to 12 months
- Stipend: $50,400 per year
- Research Allowance: up to $4,000
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS – for scholars up to seven years beyond the Ph.D.
- Term: 3 to 12 months
- Stipend: $50,400 per year
- Research Allowance: up to $4,000
PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS -for doctoral candidates to conduct dissertation research.
- Term: 3 to 12 months
- Stipend: $36,000 per year
- Research Allowance: up to $4,000
TEN-WEEK GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS -for graduate students to conduct independent research usually before having been advanced to candidacy if in a Ph.D. program.
- Term: 10 weeks
- Stipend: $7,500
DEADLINE: 1 November 2023
HOW TO APPLY: Apply online
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