The Huntington Library awards over 150 research fellowships annually. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at The Huntington and to participate in, and make a contribution to, its intellectual life.
The Huntington is a collections-based research institute, which promotes humanities scholarship on the basis of its library holdings and art collections. The Library holds more than eleven million items that span the 11th to 21st centuries. Its diverse materials center on fourteen intersecting collection strengths:
- American history
- architecture, landscape design, and planning
- British history
- California
- early printed books
- Hispanic history and culture
- history of science, technology and medicine
- literature in English
- medieval manuscripts
- maps and atlases
- the Pacific Rim
- prints, posters, and ephemera
- photography
- Western American history
The Art Collections feature European and American art spanning more than 500 years, with diverse strengths ranging from Renaissance Italian bronzes to British Grand Manner portrait paintings to early American folk art to twentieth-century drawings, prints, and photography.
Long-Term Awards
The Huntington offers thirteen Long-Term Fellowships for nine to twelve months in residence. Although nine of these are open to scholars working on projects in any area where The Huntington’s collections are strong, there are specific awards for maritime history (The Kemble Fellowship), the history of medicine (The Molina Fellowship) and the history of science (The Dibner Fellowships). Three awards (the Thom Fellowships) are reserved for recent post-doctoral scholars.
Short-Term Awards
Approximately 140 Short-Term Fellowships are available for one to five months in residence. They are open to scholars in any field where The Huntington’s collections are strong.
Travel Grants and Exchange Fellowships for Study in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Six Travel Grants for Study in the United Kingdom and Ireland are available in any of the fields in which The Huntington’s own collections are strong and where the research will be carried out in libraries or archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland. We also offer eight Exchange Fellowships with Corpus Christi, Jesus, Linacre, Lincoln, and New Colleges, Oxford; Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Trinity College Dublin/Marsh’s Library; and the University of Durham. The intention is to encourage projects which can be developed both in The Huntington’s collections and in UK archives.