For the 2026-2029 fellowship competition, the Society of Fellows welcomes applications for the fellowship categories outlined below. Applicants may be considered for more than one fellowship category pertinent to their research and teaching.

1. Two or Three Open Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences

These fellowships are open to applicants in all disciplines represented in the Society of Fellows. The fellowships' responsibilities include both research and teaching, one course each semester in the first and second years, one course in the third year. The fellows will either participate in team-taught courses or offer self-designed courses in the host department and/or an interdisciplinary program. In addition, fellows normally take on some advising in their specialty or related research areas.

2. One Fellowship in Humanistic Studies

This fellowship is supported jointly by the Council of the Humanities and the Society of Fellows and is open to candidates in the humanities disciplines represented in the Society. The fellowship’s responsibilities include research and teaching, one course each semester in the first and second years, one course in the third year. Courses are offered in a fellow’s host department and cross-listed with the Program in Humanistic Studies, possibly additional programs. In the spring semester of the first two years, the fellow will join a faculty team to co-teach in the Humanities Sequence, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture: From the Renaissance to the modern period. The fellow will be called upon to lead or contribute to occasional activities designed to build a sense of community among undergraduates in the Program in Humanistic Studies, which offers local and international field trips, an undergraduate society, workshops and other opportunities.

3. One Fellowship in East Asian Studies

This fellowship is supported jointly by the Department of East Asian Studies and the Society of Fellows and is open to candidates in the humanities disciplines represented in the Society whose research focus is East Asia. The fellowship’s responsibilities include research and teaching, one course each semester in the first and second years, one course in the third year. Courses are offered in the Department of East Asian Studies and can be cross-listed with other programs or departments. For one semester in each of the first two years, the fellow is expected to co-teach one of the following courses: East Asian Humanities I: The Classical Foundations (antiquity to ca. 1600), East Asian Humanities II: Traditions and Transformations (modern period to present), East Asia to 1600, or East Asia since 1800.  In addition, fellows normally take on some advising in their specialty or related research areas.

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