The Mellon IDRF offers 9-12 months of support to graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled in PhD programs in the United States. Dissertation research must be conducted outside the United States, about non-US topics. The average award is $20,000.
by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
This $30,000 fellowship supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of dissertation writing. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure.
Art History Fellowships
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in art history support PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and senior museum professionals whose research projects relate to the Museum’s collections. Applicants should have received their doctorate or have completed substantial work toward it.
Paul Mellon Fellowship
One fellowship is awarded annually for 36 months. The fellowship is intended for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation in Western art and to enable a candidate to reside abroad for two years to develop expertise in a specific city. The third year is to complete the dissertation.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
One fellowship is awarded annually for 24 months. The fellowship is intended for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation in cross-cultural studies or in a field other than Western art through the 20th century. Cross-cultural proposals should represent at least one culture outside the Western tradition. The Andrew W. Mellon Fellow is expected […]
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
Scholars who have received their Ph.D. degree within four years in any field of inquiry in the humanities or humanistic social sciences-broadly conceived-are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship, made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Wesleyan University.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
To support scholarship in the field of British art and architectural history and to disseminate knowledge through publications, exhibitions and education, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art offers a variety of fellowships and grants. The Centre’s remit does not cover contemporary fine arts, archaeology, the current practice of architecture or the performing […]
Junior Fellowships
Junior Fellowships in the United Kingdom (based at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London) or the United States (based at theYale Center for BritishArt in New Haven) are offered to scholars already engaged in doctoral research on British art or architecture. Candidates may be of any nationality, but normally must […]
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Conservation
Conservation fellowships are available to individuals in the following departments: Arms and Armor, Asian Art Conservation, The Costume Institute, Musical Instruments, Objects Conservation (including sculpture, metalwork, glass, ceramics, furniture, and archaeological objects), Paintings Conservation, Paper Conservation, Photograph Conservation, Scientific Research, or Textile Conservation. Fellowships are not granted every year in each department. Each Andrew W. […]
Humanities Fellows Program
The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities (formerly the Stanford Humanities Fellows Program) is an interdisciplinary program offering post-doctoral fellowships in humanities disciplines. The program brings outstanding younger scholars (within three years of the PhD) to Stanford on two-year fellowships. Fellows enjoy substantial time to pursue research, teach two courses per year […]