Kress History of Art Institutional Fellowships
Offered by Samuel H. Kress Foundation
About this scholarship
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation will award six History of Art Institutional Fellowships for two-year predoctoral research appointments beginning in the 2027–2028 academic year. Each fellowship provides $45,000 per year and places an emerging art historian at one of six European research centers in Florence, Leiden, London, Munich, Paris, or Rome. The program is designed for sustained access to artworks, archives, libraries, scholarly communities, and the European setting needed for dissertation research on European art from antiquity through the early nineteenth century. Applicants must be doctoral candidates in art history or a closely related discipline such as archaeology, architecture, or classics. They must be U.S. citizens or matriculated at an American university, be all-but-dissertation when the appointment begins, and receive formal nomination from their academic department. Each department may nominate no more than two candidates, and those nominees must select different host centers. The portal application requests a research plan, annotated bibliography, budget, curriculum vitae, current official transcript, language-proficiency information, and three recommendations including the department chair’s nomination. Applications open November 1, 2026 and are due November 30; award decisions are normally communicated by the end of March.
Eligibility
- Be a predoctoral candidate in art history or a closely related discipline
- Be a United States citizen or be matriculated at an American university
- Conduct dissertation research on European art from antiquity through the early nineteenth century
- Be all-but-dissertation by the time the fellowship appointment begins
- Receive formal nomination from the applicant’s academic department
- Apply to one of the six participating European research centers
- Provide the required research plan, bibliography, budget, curriculum vitae, transcript, and recommendations
- Possess language preparation appropriate to the research and proposed host center