Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship funds early career anthropologists to complete innovative multimedia projects that communicate anthropological research through film, audio, and other creative media formats.
Funder: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): May 2027 (Full application / Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship submission deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $40,000 for up to 9 months; maximum of four fellowships awarded annually.
Summary: Supports early career anthropologists and related scholars to complete innovative multimedia projects (film, audio, etc.) communicating anthropological research.
Key Information: Fellowship is for final-stage media projects based on completed research; not for pilot research or extended fieldwork.
Description
The Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship, offered by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, is designed to support early career scholars in anthropology and closely related fields who wish to amplify the impact of their research through creative, multimodal work such as film, audio, and other media formats. The fellowship encourages innovative approaches to anthropological communication, especially those that ethically represent and involve diverse communities in the production and distribution of media projects.
Eligible projects may include podcasts, video shorts, experimental films, audio ethnographies, tactile performances, and traditional documentary works. The emphasis is on projects in their final stages of media production, rooted in the applicant’s completed anthropological research, with strong theoretical significance, methodological rigor, and the potential for broad impact both within and beyond the discipline.
