Fellowships & Institutes

The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers is an international fellowship program open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building—including academics, independent scholars, and creative writers. Read More ›

The Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program offers long-term and short-term fellowships to support scholars and writers whose research would benefit from extended access to the Center's resources. Fellowships allow recipients to spend six months in residence.Read More ›

The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery—funded by a generous $2.5 million gift from Ruth and Sid Lapidus matched by The New York Public Library—is the only facility of its kind based in a public research library. The Lapidus Center offers long-term and short-term fellowships.Read More ›

The New York Public Library is pleased to offer National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships to support advanced research at the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities, located in the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.Read More ›

Short-Term Research Fellowships support scholars based outside the New York metropolitan area who are engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, and independent research in the arts and humanities. Read More ›

Fordham University’s Jewish Studies Program and The New York Public Library are delighted to announce joint short-term and mid-term research fellowships in Jewish Studies for the 2024–2025 academic year. This joint fellowship program is open to scholars in all fields of Jewish Studies from outside the New York City metropolitan area seeking to conduct on-site research in The New York Public Library, especially the Dorot Jewish Division.Read More ›

This fellowship will support a scholar working on a project related to Coward or his work, over the period of a year. Read More ›

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is pleased to offer Research Fellowships to support scholars and practitioners engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, and independent research.Read More ›

This fellowship supports a scholar working on a project that examines technologies documented in our collection, or using innovative technologies to study theatre history. Read More ›

The New York Public Library is pleased to offer the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship Program, established with the generous support of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel foundation, to support advanced research at the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities, located in the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Read More ›

The Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar program at The New York Public Library promotes excellence in LGBTQ studies by supporting scholars engaged in original, archivally-based research. Read More ›

RSA-Kress New York Public Library Grants support a one-month residence in New York City by a member of the RSA for the purposes of Art History research in the special collections of The New York Public Library. Read More ›

The mission of the Gilder Lehrman Institute is to promote the study of American history, a goal that it serves in part through a scholarly fellowship program for work in four historical archives in New York City, including The New York Public Library. Read More ›

The New York Public Library’s Picture Collection, part of the Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, is pleased to offer the Picture Collection Artist Fellowship to support artists or scholars engaged in the research, development, and/or execution of a new creative or scholarly work based on the Collection’s holdings.Read More ›

Drawing on the rich resources of the Schomburg Center, the Harlem community, and new scholarship, this two-week hybrid institute expands the typical Civil Rights Movement narrative by focusing on struggles for educational opportunities in Harlem. From the perspective of these events, a new story emerges: a movement often led by women; a movement employing a wider range of political frameworks—including, but not limited to integrationism—in the struggle for access to and equity in schooling; a movement as strongly situated in the North as in the South; and a movement that sought rich Read More ›

The Institute encourages underrepresented students and others with an interest in African American, African, and African Diasporan studies to pursue PhD programs in the humanities.Read More ›

Junior Scholars attend college-style lectures and presentations, engage in dialogue with adult scholars, participate in guided peer group discussions and activities, generate individual research projects and portfolios, and create collaborative media and arts projects that grow from their intensive study based on the Schomburg’s vast collections, exhibitions, and educational resources. Read More ›

The New York Public Library is pleased to offer the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Fellowship to support advanced research on The New York Public Library’s holdings of materials from the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, South Asia, Central Asia, and their diasporas in the United States.Read More ›

The NYPL Long-Term Fellowship supports advanced research at the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities, located in the Library’s flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Read More ›

The Center for Educators & Schools Residency is a week-long program that provides teachers with the resources needed to foster a creative, engaging, and intellectually curious classroom.Read More ›