Funder: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Due Dates (Anticipated): November 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: I Tatti: $5,200/month for six months, plus up to $1,800 relocation support; Dumbarton Oaks: $17,500/spring term plus $6,000 research award
Summary: A joint residential fellowship supporting early- or mid-career scholars researching exchanges between Italy and the East Christian world.
Key Information: Fellows must reside in Florence and Washington, D.C., and cannot undertake other obligations during the fellowship.
Description
I Tatti–The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Dumbarton Oaks offer a joint academic-year fellowship for one early- or mid-career scholar per cycle. The fellowship supports research on cross-cultural contacts in and beyond the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean, combining six months as an I Tatti fellow with a spring residency at Dumbarton Oaks.
Research should address exchanges between Italy and the broadly conceived 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.
