I Tatti–Dumbarton Oaks Joint Fellowship
I Tatti–Dumbarton Oaks Joint Fellowship supports early- or mid-career scholars’ residential research to explore cross-cultural exchanges between Italy and the East Christian world.
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Funder: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Due Dates: November 1, 2026 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $5,200/month for six months at I Tatti, up to $1,800 relocation support, and $17,500 plus a $6,000 research award at Dumbarton Oaks
Summary: A joint residential fellowship supporting early- or mid-career scholars researching cross-cultural contacts between Italy and the East Christian world.
Key Information: Fellows must reside in Florence and Washington, D.C., and may not undertake other obligations, including teaching.
Description
Dumbarton Oaks and I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, offer this academic-year residential fellowship to one early- or mid-career scholar per cycle. It supports research on cross-cultural contacts in and beyond the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean, focusing on exchanges between Italy and the broadly defined East Christian world: Byzantium, the Post-Byzantine Greek world, North and East Africa, the Near East, the Caucasus, the Balkans, India, Russia, and contact zones between Eastern and Western Christianity.
Supported disciplines include art, architecture, archaeology, history, literature, material culture, music, philosophy, religion, and science. Preference goes to projects drawing on the history and cultural patrimony of both Italy and the East Christian world. The fellowship combines six months as an I Tatti fellow with a spring term at Dumbarton Oaks, providing access to both institutions’ research resources and scholarly communities.
