Winterthur Research Fellowship Program

Application Due Date: January 15, 2025

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Explore and immerse yourself in holistic and intimate inquiry in a wide range of disciplines. As an interdisciplinary center for collections-based scholarship and conservation, Winterthur offers researchers unparalleled access to a wealth of museum, garden, and library collections supporting material culture research. We enthusiastically welcome researchers from underrepresented communities including, but not limited to, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color as well as scholars who bring critical perspectives to collections research.

Academic, independent, and museum scholars as well as advanced graduate students are invited to apply for short-term (two- to six-week) and long-term (four- to eight-month) residential, remote, and hybrid research fellowships. We welcome new and critical approaches to a broad range of scholarly topics, including: material culture studies, social and cultural history, social justice, museum practice, art history, literary studies, American studies, design history, the decorative arts, landscape architecture and design, consumer culture, and conservation studies covering global topics from the 17th to the 20th centuries. We also support fellowships designed for artists, writers, filmmakers, horticulturalists, craftspeople, and other creative professionals who wish to examine, study, and immerse themselves in Winterthur’s vast collections in order to inspire creative and artistic works for general, non-academic audiences.

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