The Folger Institute offers three types of competitive fellowships. For more information on what kinds of projects are eligible for a Folger Fellowship as well as applicant requirements, visit our Fellowships FAQs page.
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Long-term Residential Fellowships
- Nine months of semi-residential research support
- One semester offsite in fall 2023 and one semester of residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library in spring 2024
- Applications open September 1, 2022.
Long-term residential fellowships are designed to support research projects that would benefit from significant primary research onsite at the Folger. Please note that for the 2023-2024 fellowship year, long-term fellowships are semi-residential.
Short-term Residential Fellowships
- One, two, or three months of on-site research support
- Must be taken between January 2024 and June 2024
- Open to both scholars and artists
- Applications open October 1, 2022.
Short-term residential fellowships are designed to support research projects that would benefit from significant primary research onsite at the Folger.
Virtual Fellowships
- One month of virtual research support
- May take place anytime within the 2023-2024 fellowship year
- Open to both scholars and artists
- Applications open October 1, 2022.
Virtual fellowships focus on providing researchers with the resources and opportunities necessary to pursue and advance their work outside the context of in-person work with the Folger’s collections. Virtual fellowships support the many other kinds of work necessary to advance or complete a research project such as access to digital resources, travel to special collections, caregiving expenses, and time to write, edit, or organize notes and images, just to name a few.