Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) 2026-2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 15, 2025

Applications for the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) 2026-2027 are actually open. The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program affords in-resident alternatives for unbiased analysis and study associated to Smithsonian collections, services, and/or analysis pursuits of the Institution and its employees.

Fellowships are supplied to graduate college students, predoctoral college students, and postdoctoral and senior investigators to conduct unbiased analysis and to make the most of the assets of the Institution with members of the Smithsonian skilled analysis employees serving as advisors and hosts. These fellowships are supplied via the Smithsonian’s Office of Academic Appointments and Internships, and are administered below the constitution of the Institution, 20 U.S. Code part 41 et seq.

Stipend

• Stipend ranges from $10,000 to $57,000 yearly.

Eligibility

• Applicants are inspired to suggest to conduct analysis in-residence on the Smithsonian in one among its areas of analysis as outlined within the publication, Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study, for a interval of three to 12 months, or ten weeks for the Graduate Student Fellowship. Past or present fellowship recipients are eligible to apply for an additional award.
• No worker or contractor of the Smithsonian Institution might maintain a Smithsonian fellowship in the course of the time of his/her employment or contract, nor might an award be supplied to any one that has been employed by or below contract to the Institution within the earlier 12 months, with out the prior approval of the Office Academic Appointments and Internships (OAAI).
• Applicants whose native language just isn’t English are anticipated to have the flexibility to jot down and converse fluently in English. All application supplies should be introduced in English (international transcripts could also be translated, see beneath).

Determination of the fellowship class for which to apply must be primarily based on the anticipated tutorial stage on the time the fellowship would start:

• Graduate Student Fellowships: When they apply, college students should be formally enrolled in a graduate program of study at a level-granting establishment. Before the appointment begins fellows should nonetheless be enrolled and will need to have accomplished at the least one full-time semester or its equal. Graduate Student Fellowships are meant for college students who haven’t but been superior to candidacy if in a doctoral program.
• Predoctoral Fellowships: Students enrolled in a college as candidates for the Ph.D. or equal are eligible for predoctoral fellowships. By the time the appointment begins, the college should approve the enterprise of dissertation analysis on the Smithsonian Institution and certify that necessities for the doctorate, aside from the dissertation, have been met.
• Postdoctoral Fellowships: The doctorate diploma should be accomplished by the point the fellowship begins.
• Senior Fellowships: Applicants will need to have held a Ph.D. or equal for at the least 5 years. Applicants who’ve acquired the Ph.D. or equal earlier than June 1, 2018 are eligible to apply for senior fellowships. If you have got taken a “leave of absence” from analysis and want to apply below the postdoctoral fellowship application as an alternative of senior fellowship application you’ll need to supply a justification within the further info part on the finish of the application.

Application

All functions should be submitted by October 15, 2025 11:59 PM EST (enter 2025 for the cycle on the application) via the Smithsonian Academic Appointment System (SOLAA).

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For extra info, go to Smithsonian Institution Fellowship.