Funder: Folger Shakespeare Library
Due Dates: December 15, 2026, by 11:59 p.m. ET (Application)
Funding Amounts: $70,000 for a standard nine-month fellowship in 2027–2028
Summary: Supports full-time early modern research and public humanities projects drawing on Folger collections, exhibitions, and programming themes.
Key Information: Applicants must propose at least one public engagement activity developed with Folger Institute staff.
Description
The Folger Institute’s Long-term Public Humanities Fellowships support significant, full-time research and public project development exploring the histories, concepts, art, and objects of the early modern world, circa 1400–1800, and its legacies. The program welcomes scholars, artists, educators, cultural workers, and other knowledge holders whose projects draw on the Folger’s collections, exhibitions, and programming themes.
Public engagement may include readings, talks, videos, podcasts, workshops, community activations, performances, games, interactives, or online resources. Digital humanities work is hosted on non-Folger platforms. The Institute prioritizes work addressing inequities or marginalized subjects and contributing to richer, more inclusive histories. It supports traditional and nontraditional archival approaches, innovative research strategies, and training in early modern research methodologies.
