Funder: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Due Dates: November 1, 2026 (Portal opens) | November 30, 2026, at 5 p.m. (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $45,000 per year for a two-year research appointment; six fellowships awarded every other year
Summary: Supports pre-doctoral dissertation research on European art through two-year appointments at European art history research centers.
Key Information: Departmental nomination is required, with two nominees per department applying to different research centers.
Description
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation’s History of Art Institutional Fellowships support emerging art historians through extended engagement with European research centers. The program funds pre-doctoral dissertation research on European art from antiquity to the early nineteenth century, including work in related disciplines such as archaeology, architecture, and classics.
Two-year appointments provide direct exposure to works of art, prolonged access to libraries and photographic archives, professional relationships with colleagues abroad, and sustained immersion in European cultures. Fellows pursue research at participating centers in Florence, Leiden, London, Munich, Paris, or Rome. The next fellowships begin in the 2027–2028 academic year.
