Deadline:
September 15, 2025
Program Starts: June 01, 2026
Program Ends: May 31, 2027
Location(s)
United States of America
121 Wall Street | New Haven, CT 06511
Overview
The Beinecke Library offers, on a competitive basis, fellowships to support graduate students to pursue onsite research with the collections for one to four months.
Details
We welcome applications from students enrolled in graduate programs at Yale and at any other university or college, locally or globally. The fellowship program aims to facilitate research by the broadest possible group of students, regardless of institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender, or socioeconomic status. Students applying for a fellowship should be at an advanced stage in their research or prospectus development and propose a fully conceptualized project related to their degree program. Applications from students utilizing traditional methods of archival and bibliographic research are encouraged as are applications from students who wish to pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research in the collections.
The application for the 2026-2027 awards open June 2, 2025. Click here for the application in Interfolio. Applications close September 15, 2025.
Applicants will be notified of all decisions by January 31, 2026.
Fellowships must be taken between June 1, 2026 and May 31, 2027. We are unable to defer fellowship awards.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Eligibility
- Applicants must be enrolled in a graduate degree program (PhD, MFA, MA, MPhil, MBA, etc.) at the time the fellowship will be taken. If you will graduate before you would take up your fellowship residency, you are not eligible for this award. You may apply for the Short-term Research Fellowship.
- Students applying for a fellowship should be at an advanced stage in their research or prospectus development and have a fully conceptualized project related to their degree program.
- Researchers not currently enrolled in a graduate degree program should apply to the short-term research fellowship.
Expectations for Fellows
- This is a residential fellowship and fellows are expected to spend the majority of their time in the reading room. Fellows are meant to participate in the intellectual life of the university and are encouraged to participate in the activities of the library.
- Seating in the reading room is limited, therefore applicants’ first choice for arrival cannot be guaranteed. Fellows must finalize their visit dates with the Fellowship Program team prior to arrival.
- At the end of the fellowship period, fellows are asked to complete a questionnaire about their experience and to acknowledge the fellowship in publications and lectures that result from research conducted during the fellowship term. The Beinecke Library appreciates being informed of addtional work that stems from your fellowship period.
Dates
Deadline: September 15, 2025
Program starts:
June 01, 2026
Program ends:
May 31, 2027
Program Starts: June 01, 2026
Program Ends: May 31, 2027
Cost/funding for participants
Funding Information
Fellowships will be awarded in the amount of $5,000 per month for research visits between one and four months in length. Fellows’ funding will be awarded at the beginning of the fellowship whenever possible; payment of international fellows often takes several weeks. All fellows are responsible for paying taxes related to the receipt of their fellowship award. Graduate student fellows are responsible for reporting their award to their home institution.
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