Clark Postdoctoral and Graduate Fellowships support scholars and graduate students in collections research and library practice to advance scholarship, teaching, and access to UCLA’s Clark Library holdings.
Research applications moved from February 1, 2026 to February 1, 2027, 11:59 p.m.; library-work deadlines moved from March 1, 2026 to March 1, 2027. Dissertation/Ahmanson Predoctoral applications now require two thesis-committee letters due February 16, 2027; other reference requirements and fellowship offerings also changed.
Clark Predoctoral Fellowship supports doctoral researchers’ dissertation work using the Clark Library’s primary sources to advance studies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and other represented subjects.
Clark Dissertation Fellowship supports UCLA doctoral candidates with sustained research in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library’s holdings to advance dissertations grounded in its collections.
Clark Bibliographical Fellowship supports academic and independent researchers in studying the Clark Library’s primary sources to advance bibliographical scholarship on books, manuscripts, and texts.
Getty Clark Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities supports postdoctoral scholars’ collection-based research to advance humanities scholarship through sustained work with Clark Library holdings.
Clark Short-Term Fellowship supports scholars’ residential research in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library’s collections to pursue projects using primary sources from the 16th through 20th centuries.