Funder: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): May 2027 (Annual application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $80,000 for nine consecutive months; shorter fellowships prorated
Summary: Supports completion of public media projects that bring applicants’ completed anthropological research to audiences beyond print.
Key Information: Projects must be in final post-production stages, with no more than one month of additional research or recording.
Description
The Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Fejos Fellowship in Public Media gives early-career scholars time to complete films, audio works, and other creative multimodal projects based on their completed anthropological research. Supported forms include podcasts, video shorts, experimental films, audio ethnographies, tactile performances, and documentaries. The program encourages innovative communication that reaches new audiences, with no preference for particular methodologies, research locations, topics, or subfields.
The fellowship prioritizes theoretically rich, ethically engaged work that advances anthropological knowledge and has impact within and beyond the discipline. The Foundation encourages collaboration with represented communities, including their involvement in conception, production, and distribution and their rights to the resulting materials. Applicants should demonstrate expertise and innovation in their chosen medium and identify specific public audiences.
