Wallace Fellowships 2027-2028 at Harvard University (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: November 16, 2026

Applications are open for the Wallace Fellowships 2027-2028 at Harvard University. The Wallace Fellowships are designed for students who discover the historiography and affect of the Italian Renaissance within the Modern Era (19^th-21^st centuries). They are made potential by a beneficiant grant from The Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Fund.

Projects may handle a spread of subjects from historiography to the response to, transformation of, and commentary on the Italian Renaissance and its ties to modernity. Also, welcome are tasks on museum and gathering historical past and on the survival of the Renaissance in fashionable artwork and structure (together with images and panorama structure), in literature and music, and in philosophy and political thought.

I Tatti provides Fellows the dear time they should pursue their research with a minimal of obligations and interruptions along with a most of scholarly sources—a mixture that distinguishes the Harvard Center from related establishments. Each yr, a restricted variety of actions organized at I Tatti are reserved for the Fellows, and they’re anticipated to affix the broader neighborhood at conferences, lectures, and concert events.

This is a residential fellowship of 4 or 6 months in size. Up to 4 fellowships can be awarded yearly.

Benefits

• The grant is USD $5,200 per 30 days, plus a one-time complement (most USD $1,800) in the direction of relocation bills. In gentle of the residential nature of the fellowship Fellows should dwell within the Florence space and spend at least three days every week at the middle. When potential, an residence can be put aside for the Fellow’s use, lease free, however with costs for utilities. If an residence isn’t out there, a housing subsidy can be supplied to assist offset rental prices.

Eligibility

• At the time of application, students should have a PhD in hand and can be requested to add a scan of the certificates.
• They might not be engaged on a second PhD at the time of application. They ought to work solely on the venture with which they utilized and should not permitted to work concurrently on enhancing different e-book or article tasks. The proposed analysis venture could characterize a phase of a bigger venture.
• Applicants should be acquainted with English and have familiarity with Italian.
• Priority can be given to early and mid-profession students.
• Projects can handle the historiography or affect of the Renaissance on any discipline, together with artwork and structure, panorama structure, historical past, literature, materials tradition, music, philosophy, faith, and science. It should be potential for candidates to hold out most of their analysis in Florence.
• I Tatti welcomes functions from students from all nations and provides particular consideration to candidates with out common entry to analysis supplies and services in Italy.

Application

Applications could be written in English or Italian and should be submitted electronically by midnight (Cambridge, MA time) on November 16, 2026. Scholars can apply for just one sort of fellowship at I Tatti per educational yr.

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For extra data, go to Wallace Fellowships.