Scholarships

The VELD Fellowship Taiwan is an 18-month journey of self discovery and personal growth, exclusively for recent graduates of top U.S. colleges. The VELD Fellowship is a fully-funded, eighteen month program of vocational, educational, and leadership development in Taipei, Taiwan.

VFA is a two-year fellowship program for recent grads who want to work at a startup and create jobs in American cities. Fellows learn important startup skills at a monthlong Training Camp, apply for jobs within a vetted company network, and work for two years as full-time, salaried employees in one of 14 cities. When Fellows are ready to start a company, VFA has the resources (like a crowdfunding competition, accelerator, and seed fund) to help make that dream a reality.

applications for violin, viola and cello instrument scholarships on a continuing basis. Scholarship applications will be accepted from pre-professional musicians of all ages who are residents of the United States or Canada. The major criteria for awarding scholarships are: musical skill and potential; instrument need; available financial resources; availability of a suitable instrument. The Foundation has access to instruments suitable for musicians whose age, training level, skills and experience vary widely.

Fellowships to support research at OSA archives in Budapest by individuals from the fields of history, the arts, philosophy and sociology to reflect on the conditions of knowledge production during and after the Cold War. This reflection exposes the intellectual and professional practices (journalistic, sociological, artistic, political, archival) that both reflected and shaped the meaning and scope of certain phenomena. Fellows are expected to work together with at least one of the researchers at the Archives. See website for suggested topics. The scholarships offer support for up to two months.

The Voyager Scholarship was created by the Obamas and Brian Chesky, Airbnb CEO, to help shape such leaders. Even though they come from different backgrounds, both the President and Brian believe that exposure to new places and experiences generates understanding, empathy, and cooperation which equips the next generation to create meaningful change. This scholarship gives college students financial aid to alleviate the burden of college debt, meaningful travel experiences to expand their horizons, and a network of mentors and leaders to support them.

ten two-year fellowships each year, five in fiction and five in poetry. All the fellows in each genre convene weekly in a 3-hour workshop with faculty at Stanford. Fellows are regarded as working artists, intent upon practicing and perfecting their craft. The only requirements are workshop attendance and writing. The program offers no degree. In awarding fellowships, we consider the quality of the candidate’s creative work, potential for growth and ability to contribute to and profit from our writing workshops.

Fellowships include a living stipend. Fellows’ tuition and health insurance are paid for by the Creative Writing Program. The Stegner Fellowship is a full-time academic commitment, and is not intended to be pursued concurrently with another degree program. Fellows must live close enough to Stanford to be able to attend workshops, readings, and events.

Walnut Street Theatre’s Professional Apprentice Program provides a training ground for early career professionals to bridge the gap between education and the professional world. It provides hands-on experience working alongside professionals in a specific, concentrated area. The program is designed to provide a season of intensive education and work experience in one of several aspects of theatre operation.

Short-term fellowships support interdisciplinary dissertation research in cultural history and the role of images in culture. Fellows have access to the Library and Collections of the Warburg Insitute. Fellows are expected to be in residence during the fellowship period, to participate fully in the intellectual life of the Institute, and to present a seminar on their work in a seminar. Fellowships offer support for 2-4 months.

Brian Hewson Crawford Fellowship
Two-month fellowship for the study of any aspect of the classical tradition. It is open to European scholars other than of British nationality.

Henri Frankfort Fellowship
Two-month fellowship for the study in the intellectual and cultural history of the ancient Near East, with particular reference to society, art, architecture, religion, philosophy and science; the relations between the cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Aegean, and their influence on later civilizations. The Fellowship is not intended to support archaeological excavation.

Albin Salton Fellowship
Two-month fellowship to pursue research into cultural contacts between Europe, the East, and the New World in the late medieval, Renaissance and early modern periods. It is intended to promote the understanding of those elements of cultural and intellectual history which led to the formation of a new world-view, understood in the broadest cultural, political and socio-economic terms, as Europe began to develop contacts with the world outside Europe, and that world came into contact with Europe.

Frances A. Yates Fellowships
Two-, three- and four-month fellowships for research in any aspect of cultural and intellectual history, with preference given to those whose work is concerned with those areas of the medieval and Renaissance history to which Dame Frances contributed. Candidates living in the U.K. may apply for three- or four-months only.

Fellowships support interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and social sciences. Fellows pursue their own continuing research in association with a senior faculty mentor at Washington University, teach three undergraduate courses, and collaborate in leading an interdisciplinary seminar on theory and methods for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. The fellowships offers support for two years.

The Wayne F. Placek Grant supports empirical research from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences on any topic related to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender issues. They encourage research to increase the general public’s understanding of homosexuality and sexual orientation including: Heterosexuals’ attitudes and behaviors toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, including prejudice, discrimination and violence; Family and workplace issues relevant to LGBT people; and special concerns regarding sectors of the LGBT population that have historically been underrepresented in scientific research.