Funder: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Due Dates (Anticipated): Not yet announced
Funding Amounts: $55,000 per academic year for two years, plus medical insurance, relocation, and travel allowances
Summary: Residential postdoctoral fellowships support research and writing for publication in visual arts history, theory, and criticism across all periods and geographical areas.
Key Information: Fellows must undertake a residential appointment and teach a predoctoral seminar and a university course.
Description
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the National Gallery of Art’s research institute, offers A. W. Mellon and Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellowships. These two-year residential appointments support research and writing for publication in the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts. Research may address any period or geographical area, with particular encouragement for scholarship in understudied areas. The two fellowship programs begin in alternating years.
Fellows combine independent scholarship with teaching and intellectual exchange. In the first year, they design and direct an intensive weeklong seminar for the Center’s resident predoctoral fellows, emphasizing methodological issues within their field of interest. In the second year, they teach a course at a neighboring university. Fellows also participate in lectures, colloquia, and discussions with the Center’s scholarly community.
