How to Apply
Our fellowship program is the cornerstone of our support for humanistic research. Our fellows spend a year in residence working to advance a major research project in dialogue with each other and with our annual theme. We invite applications from candidates who are eager to be part of a community engaged in innovative and interdisciplinary conversations. Our undergraduate honors fellowships, dissertation completion fellowships, and residential faculty fellowships are open to our Emory community. Our visiting faculty fellowships are open to faculty at institutions in the metro-Atlanta area. Our postdoctoral fellowships are open to early career researchers worldwide.
Applications for our 2025-26 postdoctoral fellowships, dissertation completion fellowships, faculty fellowships, and visiting faculty fellowships are now open! Applications for our 2025-26 undergraduate fellowships will open in spring 2025.
Research Theme for 2025-26: Life/Story
- How do the humanities capture a life, and in what ways does this genre—the craft of unearthing and rendering a life story—shed light upon key moments in time, social and political movements, critical junctures in history, or elements fundamental to a particular culture and place?
- How are different methodologies and epistemologies mobilized in telling the story of a life that also offer broad social and political commentaries?
- How does a single biography, in any medium, shed light upon central themes of the human condition?
Fellowship Information
Faculty Fellowships
Applications for our 2025-2026 faculty fellowships are now open. Apply now via Interfolio!
Visiting Faculty Fellowships
Applications for our 2025-2026 visiting faculty fellowships are now open. Apply now via Interfolio!
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Applications for our 2025-2026 postdoctoral fellowships are now open. Apply now via Interfolio!
Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Applications for our 2025-2026 disseration completion fellowships are now open. Apply now via Interfolio!
Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowships
URC/Fox Center Partnership
The Fox Center is partnering with the University Research Committee (URC) to support up to two eligible URC awardees to be designated Fox Center Fellows.
URC-Fox Center Awardees will join a cohort of researchers engaged in projects connected to our research theme. They will participate in a weekly works-in-progress seminar (attendance in both fall and spring semesters is required) and may be eligible for office space in the Center.
Eligibility:
- Must be an Assistant Professor at Emory University
- Must be a URC grant recipient in the Humanities category
- Must have proposal that aligns with the Fox Center’s 2025-26 research theme, Life/Story
To learn more about your eligibility, please visit the University Research Committee’s site.
Applying:
To apply, please apply through the University Research Committee’s portaland indicate in your Research Plan that you wish to be considered for a Fox Center fellowship. If awarded a grant by the URC, your application will be routed to the Fox Center for review.
*Please note: Indicating interest in a Fox Center Fellowship will not impact the outcome of your URC grant application.
Interested proposers can find full submission details and instructions within the program's Request for Proposals (RFP).
About the University Research Committee’s Request For Proposals
The URC promotes rigorous and innovative scholarship in all academic disciplines to benefit the Emory community and beyond. The URC supports:
- Early career faculty on their path toward research independence
- More advanced faculty who wish to engage novel questions that enhance their expertise
- Teams of faculty who seek to transcend the boundaries of their respective disciplines and undertake transformative research
Proposals for research grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded in six categories:
- Arts: Performing/Visual
- Biological & Health Sciences
- Humanities
- Mathematics & Natural Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Special Category: Interdisciplinary proposals with 2 or more applicants - $40,000 maximum