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ABOUT VISITING SCHOLAR PROGRAMS
The Center awards fellowships to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust. Awards are granted on a competitive basis. The Center welcomes proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines including history, political science, literature, Jewish studies, philosophy, religion, psychology, comparative genocide studies, law and others.
Visiting scholars at the Center have access to more than 47 million pages of Holocaust-related archival documentation; the Museum's extensive library; oral history, film, photo, art, artifacts, and memoir collections; and Holocaust survivor database. Many of these sources have not been examined by scholars, offering unprecedented opportunities to deepen knowledge about the Holocaust and further advance the field of Holocaust studies.
The Museum is also the American repository for the digitized records of the International Tracing Service (ITS), which was established by the Allies after World War II to help reunite families and determine the fates of victims. The ITS collections contain approximately 50 million pages of material relating to more than 17 million people who were subject to incarceration, forced labor, and/or displacement.
In addition to pursuing their own projects, fellows at the Center work side by side with other new and established Holocaust scholars from the United States and abroad, enabling them to test their ideas, share their research findings, debate methodological or interpretive approaches, and develop comparative frameworks for their projects.
The Center’s weekly fellows meetings and senior seminar programs provide unique settings for debate and discussion. Fellows participate in the Center’s broad array of scholarly programs and outreach activities at universities and other academic institutions, both locally and nationally.
In addition to the fellowship competition, each year the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council invites two distinguished scholars in the field of Holocaust Studies to take up residency at the Center as the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence and the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Fellowships are awarded to candidates working on their dissertations (ABD), postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars. Applicants must be affiliated with an academic and/or research institution when applying for a fellowship. Immediate post-docs and faculty between appointments will also be considered.
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THE AWARDS
The specific fellowship and the length of the award are at the discretion of the Center. Individual awards generally range up to nine months of residency. A minimum tenure of three consecutive months is required. Fellowships of five months or longer have proven most effective. Stipends range up to $3,500 per month. Residents of the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area receive a modified stipend and term of residency at the Center.
All awards include a stipend to offset the cost of direct travel to and from Washington, D.C., and visa assistance if necessary. Fellows are responsible for securing their own housing accommodations and health insurance. The Center does not provide support allowances for accompanying family members.
The Museum provides work space and access to a computer, telephone, facsimile machine, and photocopier. Cost-sharing by home institutions or other relevant organizations is encouraged to extend the residency of the applicant at the Museum or to make possible additional research at other institutions in the Unites States and abroad.
The deadline for fellowship applications is November of each year. Awards are announced the following April.
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