Fellowships 2023-2024
The New Foundation for Art History offers two non-residential fellowships for mid-career scholars. These fellowships will be awarded to assistant and associate professors carrying out innovative work on the art of any era or culture. Applications will be judged above all on the intellectual merit of the project as demonstrated by the application, letters, and related publications. However, in evaluating these applications, the NFAH selection committee will give special consideration to the applicant’s professional situation, including his/her home university’s ability to fund research time. For this reason, NFAH fellowships will favor ambitious scholars at public or smaller private institutions without the resources to enable full-year research leave sufficient to particular scholarly enterprises, especially book projects. At the present time, the NFAH only accepts applications from scholars at U.S. institutions.
Award
Fellowship grants will constitute up to half of the candidate’s regular annual salary, not to exceed $50,000.
Application
Candidates must send a project proposal (2500 words maximum), one recent publication (best related to the project under review), and two reference letters. One reference letter should address the quality of the projected research; the second should come from the college dean or the chair of the applicant’s department laying out the funding situation at the candidate’s home institution. This letter should evaluate the extent of the home institution’s contribution to the research of the applicant, or the limits thereof, and offer an objective assessment of the candidate’s professional situation and research potential (this letter will be particularly important in identifying need). Applications will be judged by the NFAH fellowship committee, which is constituted of professional art historians.
Application materials should be forwarded as a single pdf (named with the candidate’s first initial and surname) to info@nfah.org by January 10, 2023. Recommenders should send their letters as pdfs on letterhead separately to the same email address. Finalists will be interviewed by video conference.
The NFAH actively seeks to promote diversity in the field.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 10, 2023
CANDIDATES WILL BE INFORMED OF THE NFAH DECISION BY MARCH 30, 2023
Grants, 2023-2024
This year the NFAH will be offering five publication subvention grants with prizes between $1,000 and $5,000 for book publication. Like other applications received by the NFAH, these applications will be read by the foundation leadership and relevant foundation committees. Applications are particularly welcome from scholars (tenure track or otherwise) writing in less developed fields where image creation and rights might be a particular impediment to publication.
Applicants should submit a cover letter (maximum 750 words) explaining their publication and the reason for needing publication subvention aid, as well as a copy of the contract (signed and countersigned by author and publisher), and the current text of the book’s introduction. In the cover letter, applicants should not only describe the project but list reasons for special assistance. These reasons may include such things as lack of institutional support or the difficulty of obtaining images for publication (e.g. commissioning new photography). They must also detail other sources of funding. A letter of support from the editor/publisher is also desirable. As with other NFAH prizes, need will be a major criterium for selection. All materials may be submitted as pdfs labeled with first initial and last name of the candidate via email to info@nfah.org.
The NFAH actively seeks to promote the diversity of the field of art history.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 20, 2023