The Huntington: Travel Grants

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

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens offers travel grants for research abroad in fields aligned with its collections. Six grants are available, each providing a stipend of $3,500 after submitting a detailed report. Applicants must be doctoral candidates, faculty, or postdoctoral scholars based in North America. The grants aim to support scholarly pursuits in libraries and archives outside the U.S. or Canada, particularly in the UK, Europe, and Latin America.

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Short-Term Awards
Approximately 140 short-term fellowships are available for one to three months for research in areas where The Huntington’s collections are strong. Value of award: $3,500 per month
Six travel grants for study abroad are available in any of the fields in which The Huntington’s own collections are strong and where the research will be carried out in libraries or archives outside of the United States or Canada, especially those in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, or Latin America.
Recipients of the travel grants must be conducting research in a library or archive abroad in any of the fields in which Huntington collections are strong. The Huntington will reimburse the grantee for economy round-trip airfare before the trip. A stipend of $3,500 will be paid after the grantee submits a detailed report on the research conducted.

Eligibility

Eligibility for Travel Grants:Doctoral candidates who have advanced to candidacy (ABD) at the time of the application deadline, faculty members, and other postdoctoral scholars. Applicants must be based in North America.Applicants for travel grants and exchange fellowships must be based at institutions in North America, but do not need to be U.S. citizens.Please note that because travel grants and exchange fellowships are awarded for one month only, joint applications will not be considered for these awards.You may apply for both a travel grant/exchange fellowship for study abroad and for either a short-term or a long-term fellowship at The Huntington. You must, however, apply and submit two separate proposals, one for each award; these awards are for different purposes and are reviewed by separate committees.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.