The AIA offers a variety of scholarships, fellowships, and grants for excavation, research, publication, and site preservation. The following fellowships have a deadline of November 1.
Anna C. & Oliver C. Colburn Fellowships
These fellowships support studies undertaken at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece for no more than a year.
Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada and have AIA members (Graduate or Professional level) in good standing for at least two consecutive years (or one year for graduate students) by the application deadline. Applicants must be at the pre-doctoral stage or have received a PhD within five years of application.
John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship
This fellowship is to be used for travel and study in Italy, the western Mediterranean, or North Africa, between July 1 of the award year and the following June 30. The award may not support field excavation projects, nor may AIA fellowship funds be used for institutional overhead, administrative recovery costs, or indirect costs.
Applicants must be engaged in dissertation research in a U.S. graduate program and have been AIA members (Graduate level) in good standing for at least one year by the application deadline.
Olivia James Traveling Fellowship
This fellowship is to be used for travel and study in Greece (the modern state), Cyprus, the Aegean Islands, Sicily, southern Italy (that is, the Italian provinces of Campania, Molise, Apulia, Basilicata, and Calabria), Asia Minor (Turkey) or Mesopotamia (that is, the territory between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, that is modern Iraq and parts of northern Syria and eastern Turkey). The award may not support field excavation projects, nor may AIA fellowship funds be used for institutional overhead, administrative recovery costs, or indirect costs.
Applicants must be United States citizen and must have been AIA members (Graduate or Professional level) in good standing for at least two consecutive years (or one year for graduate students) by the application deadline. Preference will be given to individuals engaged in dissertation research or to those who received their PhD within five years of the application deadline.