Fellowships Available

• National Endowment for the Humanities. Winterthur participates in an NEH funded program, Fellowships at Independent Research Institutions, in which scholars may receive four to twelve month fellowships to pursue advanced research. This fellowship may not be used in the pursuit of a degree, although fellows with doctorate in hand may revise a dissertation for publication. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or residents for three years prior to application. Stipend up to $40,000.



• McNeil Dissertation Fellowships, one or two semester long fellowships for doctoral candidates conducting dissertation research. Stipend: $7000 per semester.



• Winterthur Research Fellowships, one to three month short term fellowships for academic, museum, and independent scholars, including graduate students. Fellows receive a stipend of $1500 per month. Applicants need not apply for a specific named fellowship, but we do designate certain awards as:
  
  
  • Faith Andrews Fellowships for the study of Shaker life and material culture
  
  
  
  • Robert Lee Gill Fellowships for research on American decorative arts, painting, architecture, or historic preservation
  
  
  
  • Dwight P. Lanmon Fellowships for the study of glass and ceramics
  
  
  
  • Neville McD. Thompson Fellowships for the study of domestic life, late 19th- and early 20th-century design and material culture