Faculty Fellowship
Tenure-line WashU faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
The humanities center hosts up to six one-semester Faculty Fellowships, taking place during the fall or spring of each academic year. Up to two fellowships per year, included in that number, will be designated for a First Book Fellowship, during which invited scholars review the fellow’s manuscript in a seminar context, offer constructive criticism, and help her/him plan final revisions before submitting the manuscript to press. Next application cycle opens fall 2025.
Graduate Student Fellowship
WashU PhD candidates in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
Graduate students writing dissertations in humanities disciplines spend a semester in residence with the humanities center during which they participate in the center’s intensive, interdisciplinary intellectual environment. Next application cycle opens spring 2025.
Divided City Graduate Summer Research Fellowship
WashU MA/PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, art, architecture, urban design and landscape architecture
With the support of the Here and Next initiative, a program of the Office of the Provost, this fellowship encourages interdisciplinary connections among graduate students in the humanities, architecture and urban design while funding two months of research on how segregation has and continues to play out as a set of spatial practices in cities, neighborhoods and public spaces. Next application cycle opens spring 2025.
Kling Undergraduate Honors Fellowship
WashU students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences apply during their sophomore year
The Kling Program empowers students to pursue a funded humanities research project of their own design over the course of their third and fourth years, to engage in interdisciplinary work and conversations about the role of the humanities in college and in public life, and to polish their findings in the form of a published article. Next application cycle opens spring 2025.
Banned Books Fellowship
WashU undergraduates in Arts & Sciences
Undergraduate students at all levels in Arts & Sciences engage in a research project on a topic of their choosing related to book banning, including the current, historical, local and international contexts. Students taking part in this paid research opportunity produce writing around their research topic and a presentation of their findings. Applications due December 1.
Tyson Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship
WashU undergraduates in Arts & Sciences
This fellowship is open to undergraduates at every level and every major in Arts & Sciences. Students in this project will be immersed in an active, ongoing archival research project to uncover and interpret aspects of Tyson’s history. Students will work collaboratively to process and interpret raw archival materials recently gathered from Tyson that document the site’s acquisition from the military by WashU in the 1960s, as well as maps and other records. Applications due December 1.