The Huntington: Short-Term Awards Grant

Funder: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (The Huntington)

The Huntington offers approximately 140 short-term fellowships for one to three months, providing a stipend of $3,500 per month. These fellowships are accessible to scholars across various fields aligned with The Huntington's extensive collections. Accepted applicants include doctoral candidates, master’s students, faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, and independent researchers. The program encourages collaborative proposals and allows applicants to apply for multiple fellowships, fostering a rich academic environment and creative exploration.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
Approximately 140 short-term fellowships are available for one to three  months in residence and carry monthly stipends of $3,500. They are open to scholars in any field where The Huntington’s collections are strong.
Applicants do not need to mention specific fellowships in their applications. However, we do offer a number of specialized fellowships, which include (but are not limited to):
Octavia E. Butler Fellowship for the study of Octavia E. Butler, science fiction and/or her archives
Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowships in the history and literature of Renaissance England
The Cheng Fellowship in the History of the Asian American Experience in the United States
The Trent R. Dames Fellowship in the History of Civil Engineering
The Dibner Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology
The Duncan Gleason Fellowship in California Maritime History
Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowships
The Gloria R. Lothrop Fellowship in Western American Women’s History
The Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas
The Shapiro Center for American History and Culture Fellowship
The Francis J. Weber Research Fellowship in Roman Catholic History
The Howard and Dawn Weinbrot Research Fellowship for the study of Eighteenth-Century British Society and Culture

Eligibility

Accepted Applicants:Doctoral candidates; master’s students in programs requiring a thesis; faculty members; postdoctoral scholars; and independent researchers working on a scholarly project served by our collections.The majority of Huntington fellowships—short- and long-term—are open to scholars of any nationality.International scholars awarded a short- or long-term fellowship will need to apply for a J-1 visa.Eligible candidates may apply in collaboration with a colleague for either a joint short-term fellowship or a joint long-term fellowship.Candidates are therefore required to choose either a short-term or a long-term award and to convey in their proposal a clear sense of what it is that they hope to achieve within the time available.As long as you are able to commit to the period of your Huntington fellowship (short-term and travel grants only), there is no conflict with accepting another (external) fellowship within the same academic year.

Ineligibility

If you are proposing research for a new project or for a different part of the project on which you were working last year, you may apply for a second short-term fellowship or for a long-term fellowship. If you are applying for a fellowship to continue the same project, your application should demonstrate the progress you made during your first fellowship and specify the agenda for the next stage of the research.