While on our ProFellow tour, I talked quite a bit about how much I love traveling and how I have used fellowships to fund my experiences abroad – including Germany, the U.K. and now New Zealand. Lucky for us, a few seminar participants provided leads on some great fellowships in Europe, ones that are going to go on my fellowship “bucket list”.

Tufts doctoral student Cecile Rouleau told me about The Chateaubriand Fellowship offered by the Embassy of France in the U.S. for doctoral students enrolled in American universities to conduct research in France for up to 10 months. The fellowship has two streams – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and Humanities and Social Science. Make sure to look at these fellowships early: application deadlines fall between December  - February for research the following academic year.

At our seminar at the Harvard Kennedy School, Dr. Thomas Widrich told me about fellowships at the European University Institute in Italy, which offers fellowships for graduate study as well as the Max Weber Programme, the largest postdoctoral programme for young academics in the social sciences in Europe. The Programmes gives 42 fellowships a year for 1 or 2 years of research in the four disciplines of the EUI: Economics, History and Civilization, Law, and Political and Social Sciences.

Can’t wait to find more fellowships like these!

American Academy in Rome

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Each year thirty Rome Prize Fellowships are awarded to talented early-to-mid career artists, architects, designers, historians, musicians and scholars to live and work at the American Academy in Rome. The fellowship provides a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a study or studio.

The Rome Prize Fellowship accepts applications from a wide array of disciplines including: architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, visual arts, ancient studies, medieval studies, renaissance and early modern studies and modern Italian studies.

The Rome Prize Fellowship winners are invited to Rome for either 6 or 11 months, provided a stipend of $14,000 or $26,000, respectively, and are provided with a once in a lifetime opportunity to expand their professional, artistic, or scholarly pursuits, drawing on their colleagues’ erudition and experience and on the inestimable resources that Italy, Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Academy have to offer.

To be eligible for the Rome Prize Fellowship you must be a U.S. citizen. Additional eligibility requirements vary by discipline and include things such as years of relevant work experience and post-graduate education. For more information about the Rome Prize Fellowship, please visit the website.

Bagnoregio Civita, Italy

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NIAUSI Fellowships offer residency in the beautiful and rustic hill town of Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy. The fellowships are for active architecture and design professionals practicing in the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho and the province of British Columbia. NIAUSI offers one and two month fellowships, each having different eligibility requirements.

The Astra Zarina Fellowship is a two month fellowship which covers the costs of restricted coach-class airfare for one person, a $1,500 stipend, and lodging for two months at the Civita Institute. Recipients of the One Month Fellowship receive lodging for one month at the Civita Institute, but are responsible for their own financial support and travel.

The primary mission of NIAUSI is to promote public discussion of issues related to the built environment. In addition to the once in a lifetime opportunity to live and work at the Civita Institute, NIAUSI Fellows also get to promote their work through organized presentations, exhibitions, articles and publications, and more. To learn more about these unique fellowships please visit the official website.

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