Fully-funded Scholarships for Scholars in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences from the Getty Foundation in USA
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The Getty Foundation in the USA offers scholarships to researchers or individuals with distinctions in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Grants run from three to nine months. Recipients may be in residence at the Getty Research Institute or Getty Villa, where they pursue their own projects free from work-related obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to an annual research theme or the African American Art History Initiative, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.
Benefits
- Three-month residency: September to December, January to April, April to June: $21,500
- Six-month residency: September to April, January to June: $43,000
- Nine-month residency: September to June: $65,000
- AAAHI Fellowships are limited to nine-month residency terms and are granted $65,000 stipends.
- Residential grants also include an office at the Getty Research Institute or the Getty Villa, an apartment in the Getty scholar housing complex, airfare to and from Los Angeles, and an available healthcare option.
Eligibility criteria
- Applications are welcome from researchers of all nationalities who are working in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.
- Applicants who received their degree after September 1, 2017, should apply for a postdoctoral fellowship.
- Current Getty staff and members of their immediate family are not eligible for Scholar Grants. Recent recipients who have received a Getty Scholar award within the past three years may be removed from consideration.
Review Process:
Getty Scholar Grants are awarded on a competitive basis. Applications are evaluated based on the following:
- the overall quality of the application;
- how the proposed project bears upon the annual research theme;
- the applicant's past achievements; and
- how the project would benefit from the resources at the Getty, including its library and collections.
- Applicants for the AAAHI Fellowship are not required to work on the annual theme, but rather should describe their focus on African American art and cultural history.
About Getty Institute:
The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through its expertise, active collecting program, public programs, institutional collaborations, exhibitions, publications, digital services, and residential scholars programs.
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