Faculty Fellowship Opportunities: Fall 2025
As summer winds down, it’s a great time to start planning for the fall—prime season for many fellowship application deadlines. While fellowship opportunities arise year-round, a significant number have deadlines between September and December for the upcoming academic year.
This post highlights several fellowships that may be of particular interest to Emerson faculty and are due this fall.
For more information about fellowships, how they can supplement a pre-tenure or sabbatical leave, or when to apply for one, please contact us.
Fellowship Name
Discipline/Topic
Deadline
Arts, humanities, sciences & social sciences
September 11, 2025
Humanities, theme-based. The 2026-27 theme is “Survival”: literary, historical, ethical, and political registers of survival
September 22, 2025
residential fellowship at Stanford Humanities Center
October 1, 2025
all fields of the humanities, natural and social sciences, and the arts; residential fellowship
October 2, 2025
residential fellowship at Humanities Center at Columbia; humanities and humanistic social sciences
October 6, 2025
Themed fellowship; 2026-2027 fellowship theme is “Love-based ethical frameworks”
October 13, 2025
topics that relate to the visual arts, their history, practice, theory, or interpretation
October 15, 2024
fellowships in arts and humanities; religion
October 23, 2025
minority faculty; commitment to racial justice
October 25, 2025
social science; foreign policy; on-site fellowship
October 31, 2025
fellowships in Fiction Writing, Poetry, and Literary Arts
November 1, 2025
junior faculty; funds projects that will make field/campus more inclusive
December 1, 2025
American history; theme-based. 2026-2027 theme is “Commemorative Acts”
January 7, 2026