Getty Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Deadline Date: October 01, 2024
Donor Name: Getty
Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000
https://www.getty.edu/projects/pre-and-postdoctoral-fellowships
Getty is pleased to announce it’s Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships supporting early-career scholars from around the world to make substantial and original contributions to the field of art history.
Goal
- Getty Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships are intended for emerging researchers to complete work on projects related to the Scholars Program’s annual theme. While in residence, fellows may pursue research projects, complete dissertations, or expand dissertations for publication. There are dedicated grants for fellows who are expanding critical inquiry of African American art and its frameworks as part of the Getty’s African American Art History Initiative (AAAHI). All recipients are invited to make use of Getty Research Institute (GRI) collections, join in weekly lectures, and participate in intellectual life at Getty. Predoctoral Fellows may be in residence at the Getty Center, while Postdoctoral Fellows may be in residence at the Getty Center or Getty Villa.
Themes
- Annual Theme: Repair
- For 2025-2026, Getty invites scholars and arts professionals to apply for a residential fellowship on the topic of repair, a theme that bridges time periods, world geographies, and professional practices. Situated between the forces of creation and destruction, the act of repair can be deeply transformative, with the potential to heal, alter, and renew the material environment. Scholars are asked to think critically about repair, questioning interpretive assessments about the ideal state of any object or site, in addition to querying what constitutes damage or whether to repair the ruined or the broken. Beyond such physical interventions, art and sites of commemoration are often mobilized to heal a fractured social fabric. Indeed, art itself may be offered as reparation to address past wrongs or to recuperate loss. The issue of repair has deep bearing for the arts, conceived in the broadest sense, and especially for institutions that aim to preserve and share global cultural heritage.
Funding Information
- Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellows are in residence for nine months from late September to late June. Predoctoral fellows may be in residence at the Getty Center, while Postdoctoral fellows may be in residence at the Getty Center or Getty Villa.
- Getty Predoctoral Fellowship recipients receive a stipend of $30,000.
- Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients receive a stipend of $35,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications for Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships are welcome from researchers of all nationalities who work in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.
- Current Getty staff and members of their immediate family are not eligible for Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships.
- Predoctoral Fellowship applicants must have advanced to candidacy by the application deadline and should expect to complete their dissertations during the fellowship period.
For more information, visit Getty.
