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Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society Fellowships 2026/27 (Germany)

FellowshipsCall for applications: Fellowships at the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 2026-27. Deadline: 15 January 2025.

The Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society at Leuphana University Lüneburg invites applications for 12-month fellowships in residence for 2026/27 starting April 1, 2026 and ending March 31, 2027. The research programme aims at countering a discourse of no alternatives. It fosters engaged scholarship to uncover, support, and multiply modes of social potentialization by questioning existing certainties and therefore activating new possibilities.

They invite researchers to investigate the historical, contemporary, socio-cultural, epistemological, political-economic, legal, and technical-scientific conditions of living together in a globalized, entangled world.

US-Japan Leadership Program 2025/26 (Japan/USA)

FellowshipsCall for applications: US-Japan Leadership Program (USJLP), participants expected to be in Japan July 27 – August 3, 2025 AND in the US in late July 2026. Deadline: 6 January 2025.

USJLP is the flagship program of the United States-Japan Foundation. It launched in 2000 with the purpose of developing a network of communication, friendship and understanding among the next generation of leaders in each country.  With the goal of bridging the gap between East and West, the Program fosters a continuing dialogue among future leaders in a broad variety of professions. It starts this process by bringing some young leaders together from each country for two intensive weeklong conferences over two years, with discussions revolving around historical and current issues in bilateral relations, as well as issues reaching beyond our two countries. Through serious conversation as well as recreation and shared cultural activities it seeks to nurture lifelong friendships. The Program is designed to keep the leaders in touch with each other throughout their careers through a dedicated website and member directory, frequent reunions and newsletters, and online social networks.

All members hold US or Japanese citizenship, enter the Program between the ages of 28-44 and have demonstrated leadership in their respective fields. Membership requires a commitment to participate in two consecutive summer conferences as a Delegate (one in Japan, and one in the USA), and the intent to remain active in the Program as a Fellow (alumnus).

CrossCulture Programme Fellowships (Germany)

FellowshipsCrossCulture Programme Fellowships, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA), Germany. Deadline: 5 December 2024.

Each year around 55 Fellowship recipients from host organisations in Germany or in one of the over 40 partner countries gain experience in intercultural networks. Through occupational stays abroad, the programme enables and promotes actors from the cultural, educational, human rights, sustainability, scientific, and media sector to work together. The goal of the CrossCulture Programme is to strengthen lasting civil society networks between Germany and countries across the globe. The programme was launched in 2005 and now counts more than 1.100 alumni to its ever-growing network.

With the CCP Fellowships, the CrossCulture Programme (CCP) funds professionals and committed volunteers from more than 40 countries each year. During two to three months of work-related stays in host organisations in Germany or CCP partner countries, participants deepen their expertise, establish new contacts and acquire intercultural skills. In turn, the host organisations benefit from the expertise, regional knowledge and networks of the CCP Fellows. Participants can also attend transcultural workshops, networking and professional events hosted by the CCP. After returning to their daily working lives, participants then bring the experience they have gained into their home organisation.

Weatherhead Program on US-Japan Relations Fellowships (USA)

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Weatherhead Program on US-Japan Relations Associates, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. Deadline: 15 December 2024. 

The roughly 16 Associates who join the Program include businesspeople, government officials, journalists, and scholars. They are primarily from Japan and the United States, but the Program has also hosted Associates from Australia, Canada, the People’s Republic of China, Germany, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.

The Program also offers postdoctoral fellowships during the 2025-26 academic year. They seek applications from outstanding recent PhDs in the social sciences who are conducting research that illuminates Japan’s relations with the rest of the world in the broadest sense. Applications are welcome from anthropology, business, economics, history, international relations, law, political science, psychology, public health, public policy, and sociology, among other fields. Scholars may examine domestic issues that bear on Japan’s external relations or problems that it shares with other countries, and projects that compare Japan’s experience cross-nationally are encouraged. The postdoctoral fellowship is a twelve-month appointment, in residence in the Boston area, that begins in either August or September.

The Program was founded in 1980 based on the belief that the United States and Japan have become so interdependent that the problems they face require cooperation. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Program enables scholars and outstanding professionals from government, business, finance, journalism, NGOs, and other fields to come together at Harvard. Over the academic year, they conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with Harvard faculty and students, and with others from the greater Cambridge-Boston community. 

Smithsonian Institution Fellowships 2024 (USA)

FellowshipsThe Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Deadline: 15 October 2024.

The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program offers opportunities for independent research or study related to Smithsonian collections, facilities, and/or research interests of the Institution and its staff. Fellowships are offered to graduate students and predoctoral students as well as postdoctoral and senior investigators to conduct independent research and to utilize the resources of the Institution with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff serving as advisors and hosts.

Parts of the Smithsonian that might be of specific interest to CID followers include: Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Office of International Relations, and there are Fulbright-Smithsonian Awards for those outside the US to travel to work with the Smithsonian collections.

IMéRA Fellowships 2025-6 (France)

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IMéRA Core Fellowships 2025-6, IMéRA Institute for Advanced Study at Aix-Marseille University, France. Deadline: 21 October 2024.

In collaboration with its partners, Imera is offering 9 residency positions for periods of 5 or 10 months, dedicated to scientists and/or artists. These positions are distributed across four programs developed within Iméra: “Arts &Sciences: Undisciplined Knowledge,” “Interdisciplinary Explorations,” “Mediterranean,” and”Necessary Utopias.”

Prerequisites common to all available fellowships and that must be taken into account before the eligibility criteria specific to each fellowship include:

  • An active knowledge of French and/or English (written and spoken) is essential. Linguistic skills in both languages are desirable due to the bilingual context of Iméra.

  • Candidates commit to participating in the scheduled activities with other residents and the Iméra scientific team. The Community Building Seminar (CBS) is one of the central activities, held each week (all day Thursday). The time investment amounts to one day per week in total.

  • In the interest of research internationalization, just as the local scientific and cultural community should benefit from the methodological traditions brought by the residents, the latter should also benefit from the numerous expertise present on site, where most disciplines are represented. For these reasons, candidates must be based abroad and submit a project that maximizes the resources available on-site (around a hundred laboratories, various archives, a vibrant cultural and associative life, etc.). It is highly recommended to identify key local resources related to the research theme beforehand, mention them in the project, and outline the envisioned modes of collaboration.

AIAS-AUFF Fellowships (Denmark)

FellowshipsAIAS-AUFF Fellowships, Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Deadline: 5 November 2024.

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) is pleased to announce up to 10 AIAS-AUFF Fellowships. The AIAS-AUFF Junior and Senior Fellowships are available for curiosity-driven, talented researchers from all over the world and within all research disciplines. Junior fellowships last for 23 months, senior fellowships for 11 month, commencing on 1 September 2025.

The call is open to curiosity-driven researchers and welcomes applications from researchers:

  • From all research disciplines of any nationality
  • Who comply with a mobility demand as applicants must not have resided or carried out their main work activity in Denmark for more than 12 months in the two years immediately prior to the deadline of the call.
  • With a career experience of 2-10 years after completion of their PhD (23 months junior fellowships)
  • With a career experience of 11+ years after completion of their PhD (11 months senior fellowships)

Wilson Center Fellowships 2025-6 (USA)

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Wilson Center Fellowships for 2025-6, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. Deadline: 1 October 2024.

Through an international competition, the Center offers 9-month residential fellowships. The Wilson Center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists and public intellectuals to take part in its flagship international Fellowship Program. Fellows conduct research and write in their areas of interest, while interacting with policymakers in Washington and Wilson Center staff and other scholars in residence. The Center accepts policy-relevant, non-advocacy fellowship proposals that address key challenges confronting the United States and the world.

FRIAS Fellowships for 2025-26 (Switzerland)

FellowshipsFellowships for 2025/26, FRIAS, University of Freiburg, Switzerland. Deadline: 13 September 2024.

The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) is the University of Freiburg’s international research college. The Institute supports academic exchange across existing boundaries: between disciplines, between different cultures and countries, between established and younger researchers. The Institute supports innovative research projects through individual and group fellowships. FRIAS provides modern office spaces and an up-to-date infrastructure and makes every effort to provide tailor-made solutions with regard to suitable accommodation, child care and educational facilities.

  • Individual Early Career Fellowships. These are 4 to 10-month fellowships between September 1st, 2025 and August 31st, 2026, and are available for researchers with completed PhD plus a maximum of eight years of post-doctoral experience.
  • Individual Sustainable Governance Senior Fellowships for Researchers from Africa. These are 7-month fellowship between September 1st, 2025 and August 31st, 2026, and are available for researchers with completed PhD plus a minimum of eight years of post-doctoral experience.
  • Senior Fellowships. These are 3- to 8-month fellowships between September 1st, 2025 and August 31st, 2026, and are available for researchers with completed PhD plus a minimum of eight years of post-doctoral experience.

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program 2024

FellowshipsFellowships, Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program, Institute for International Education, Washington, DC, USA. Deadline: 18 September 2024.

The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions. Offered by IIE, the program is funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY). A total of 705 African Diaspora Fellowships have been awarded for scholars to travel to Africa since the program’s inception in 2013. CADFP exemplifies CCNY’s enduring commitment to higher education in Africa. IIE manages and administers the program, including applications, project requests and fellowships.

Accredited African universities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and member institutions of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and partner universities with the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) can submit a project request to host an African-born scholar currently living in the United States or Canada to work on projects in research collaboration, graduate student teaching/mentoring and curriculum co-development. The host institution can collaborate with a specific scholar on the project request or submit without naming a scholar. If the host submits without naming a scholar, IIE will search their Roster of qualified candidates to be matched to the request.

African-born academics currently living in the United States or Canada and working at institutions of higher education can submit a Scholar Application to the Scholar Roster. The scholar can work with a specific host institution on a Project Request or remain on the roster until a project that fits their expertise is submitted by an African host institution.