The Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) is now accepting applications for its 2026 Summer Research Fellowship Program. Fellows will spend 4–6 weeks onsite to work on a research project related to the Museum's collections. Applications are due November 17, 2025.
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The Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center is looking for two researchers to make its archive more accessible to artists, scholars, and practitioners. Applications are due November 1, 2025.
Creative West and South Arts are accepting applications for their National Arts Futures Fellowship, a six-month virtual leadership development program for early- and mid-career arts culture professionals. Applications are due October 5, 2025 11:59 p.m. MDT.
The Woody Guthrie Center has announced the call for proposals for its 2025 Phil Ochs Fellowship, which awards up to $5,000 for creative or scholarly projects about the life and work of songwriter and protest singer Phil Ochs, and his lasting legacy and influence on popular culture, politics, and music. Applications are due September 15, 2025.
Scholars, educators, and specialists in diverse fields of study are invited to apply for the 2025 Berea College Media Archives Fellowship, an outreach program of the Special Collections and Archives (SCA) department of the College's Hutchins Library. The extended deadline is July 15.
The College of Humanities and Social Science at George Mason University seeks a 12-minth postdoctoral research fellow in Immigration Research to help build folklore, arts, culture, and storytelling initiatives at the Institute for Immigration Research. The deadline for applications is June 24.
The Humanities Institute and the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University is hiring for a Post Doctoral Scholar position in Folklore in the Age of Algorithms and AI for the upcoming 2025/2026 academic year. The pay range for this job profile is $61,008–$62,000. The deadline to apply is May 30, 2025.
The Nordic Folklife project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is offering one 2-year Postdoctoral fellowship beginning August 18, 2025. The stipend for this position will be $60,000 per academic year. Applications are due by June 1, 2025.
The American Folklife Center (AFC) is accepting applications for its 2025 cycle of Archie Green Fellowships, AFC Internships, Parsons Funds Awards, Blanton Owen Awards, and Artist in Resonance Fellowship. Application deadline is March 3, 2025.
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announces the 2025 Leading Edge Fellowship program, offering 16 two-year fellowship opportunities with mission-driven social justice nonprofits for recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs. Each Leading Edge Fellow will earn a minimum yearly stipend of $70,000 that increases in the second year. Application deadline is March 12, 2025, 9:00 PM EDT. An informational webinar will be held on March 5.