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Postdoctoral and research fellowships for international scholars, sorted by most recently published.
Notre Dame Kellogg Visiting Fellowship 2027 - $75,000
The Notre Dame Kellogg Visiting Fellowship 2027-2028 brings recent PhDs to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies for an academic year of research on global democracy. Postdoctoral fellows receive a $75,000 stipend, up to $7,500 a year in research funds, up to $2,000 for relocation, medical insurance benefits and the option of a furnished campus apartment in year one. Open to applicants from any country, with applications due 1 October 2026 through Interfolio.
AAUW International Fellowship 2028 - Up to $25,000 in STEM
The AAUW International Fellowship pays women who are not US citizens or permanent residents $20,000 for a first master's degree or $25,000 for a first doctorate, studied full time in a STEM field at an accredited US institution. The 2027-28 application window closes at 5pm ET on 17 September 2026, so this guide is set up for the 2028-29 cycle, which is expected to open in mid-August 2027 and close in mid-September 2027.
Stigler Fellowship 2028 - $14,000 Journalists in Residence
The Stigler Fellowship, officially the Journalists in Residence Program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, gives a small cohort of journalists about 12 weeks in Chicago each spring to audit Booth classes and study political economy, with a $14,000 living stipend plus reimbursed economy airfare and visa fees. Reporters, editors and freelancers from any country can apply if they have a few years of post-degree experience and good English. The Spring 2027 cohort closes on 20 September 2026, so this guide is set up for the Spring 2028 cohort, with a deadline expected in late September or early October 2027.
FSU Humanities Center Fellowship 2027 - $1,000 Stipend
The FSU Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellowship gives up to 15 Florida State juniors and seniors a $1,000 research stipend, faculty-led workshops and a slot at the Undergraduate Humanities Symposium. The 2026-2027 round closed on 3 September 2026, and the 2027-2028 call is expected around early September 2027.
Guggenheim Fellowship 2028 - Mid-Career US & Canada Award
The Guggenheim Fellowship funds six to twelve months of focused work for mid-career artists, writers, scholars and scientists who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States or Canada. The 2027 competition closes on 15 September 2026, so this guide is set up for the 2028 competition, which is expected to open in mid-August 2027 and close in mid-September 2027.
Do Good Accelerator Fellowship 2027 - $2,000 Stipend
The Do Good Accelerator Fellowship is an 8-week, paid program at the University of Maryland, College Park for students whose social impact project is already running. Fellows get one-on-one coaching, skills workshops, workspace in Thurgood Marshall Hall and a $2,000 stipend on completion in fall or spring. The Fall 2026 round closes 14 September 2026, and the Spring 2027 round is expected to open in January with a mid-February deadline.
Notre Dame Provost Fellowship 2027 - $75,000 Postdoc
The Notre Dame Provost Fellowship 2027 is a two-year postdoctoral appointment in the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame. Eight fellows are hired for the 2027-2029 cohort, one each in Art, Art History and Design; English; German, Slavic and Eurasian Studies; Philosophy; Romance Languages and Literatures; Theology; the Initiative on Race and Resilience; and History and Philosophy of Science. Each fellow draws an annual salary of $75,000 plus $15,000 for research and training costs, gets office space, an assigned faculty mentor, and the option to teach without being required to. Applications go through Interfolio and close 1 December 2026 at 11:59pm EST, with decisions by 1 March 2027.
Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship 2027 - $78,000 Stipend
The Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship 2027 gives scholars, scientists, writers and artists nine months in Cambridge to finish an ambitious project, on a stipend of $78,000 plus $5,000 for project expenses. Fellows take up a full-time Harvard appointment as visiting fellows, get an office or studio in Byerly Hall, full Harvard Library access, and funded Harvard undergraduate research partners. Applications for the 2027-2028 year close 10 September 2026 at 5pm ET for the humanities, social sciences, creative arts, nonfiction and journalism, and 1 October 2026 for science, engineering and mathematics. Results go out by the end of March 2027, and the residency runs 1 September 2027 to 31 May 2028.
NPGH Global Health Fellowship 2027 - $67,824 Stipend
The NPGH Global Health Fellowship 2027 is a 12-month, NIH-funded research training year abroad, run by the Northern Pacific Global Health LEADERs consortium as part of the Fogarty International Center LAUNCH programme. Postdoctoral Fellows get a living stipend of $67,824 and $10,000 in research funds; predoctoral Scholars get $28,224 and $7,500. Health insurance, travel to and from the research site and an NIH orientation in Bethesda are all covered. You spend the year full-time at an approved site in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Cameroon, Peru, Thailand, Nepal or India with a mentor team on both ends. Applications for the 2027-2028 year close 15 September 2026 at 5pm Pacific, and fellowships begin 1 July 2027.
Yale Tobin Pre-Doctoral Fellows Program 2027 - Paid Predoc
The Yale Tobin Pre-Doctoral Fellows Program 2027 puts people with a bachelor's or master's degree into salaried, full-time research jobs at Yale for one to two years before they apply to a PhD in economics. Fellows are appointed as Postgraduate Associates, work under one or more named faculty mentors on a specific project, audit or take a Yale course each semester, and sit in a cohort of roughly 70 pre-docs. Yale sponsors J-1 visas for international fellows. There is no fixed deadline: projects are posted through the winter and reviewed on a rolling basis until each one is filled, with most positions starting in July to catch the multi-day orientation.
Michigan AI Explorers Program 2027 - PhD Prep Mentorship
The Michigan Artificial Intelligence Lab runs the AI Explorers Program to get talented pre-doctoral students into top PhD programmes, and it is built around output rather than lectures. Over six to nine months you work on mentored research with a weekly meeting, present progress at monthly cohort sessions, and attend monthly or bimonthly ACL mentorship sessions on research skills, career pathways and graduate admissions. You leave with two concrete things: one research paper ready to submit to a workshop, conference or journal, and a full graduate school application package covering statement of purpose, CV and research statement. Mentors are junior faculty, postdocs, senior PhD students and industry researchers, each taking one or two students. Applicants must be 18 or older by the start date, with preference for final-year Bachelor's and MS students. The 2026 round is closed and applications reopen in late 2026.
Cullman Center Fellowship 2027 - $90,000 at the NYPL
The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers gives fifteen people a year an office inside the New York Public Library, a $90,000 stipend, and nine months to write. Fellows work at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue from September through May, five days a week, and the project has to genuinely need those collections rather than merely benefit from the address. Academics, independent scholars, novelists, playwrights, poets and visual artists working on a book project are all welcome, and the programme is international, though your application must be in English. Two exclusions end a lot of applications early: no academic projects from post-doctoral fellows, and no graduate-school dissertation research. Applications for 2027-2028 close on 25 September 2026 at 5pm EDT, with decisions in March 2027 and the term running 7 September 2027 to 26 May 2028.