Fully Funded Townsend Dissertation Fellowships in USA 2025

The Townsend Dissertation Fellowships are open to all nationals. It is offered for a fellowship in the field of Humanities. The deadline for sending an application is 05 Dec 2024. This scholarship is provided by the University of California, Berkeley (UCB).

Townsend Fellowships are awarded to assistant professors, associate professors, and graduate students completing their dissertations, as well as library and museum professionals. Fellows meet in person for weekly discussions of work in progress. Each year, a number of senior faculty and visiting postdoctoral fellows are invited to join the group.

• A $34,000 stipend for the academic year.
• An additional $2,500 stipend is provided by the Jacobson Memorial Teaching Award (applicable to one fellow).
• Payment of in-state tuition.

• Applicants may come from any nationality.
• Applicants must be enrolled in the PhD program at UCB.
• Applicants' dissertation projects must entail humanistic material or problems that have a significant bearing on the humanities.