Visiting Fellowships

Visiting Fellowships are offered on a competitive basis to established scholars looking for semester and year-long sabbaticals and whose work directly contributes to the intellectual priorities of the Institute’s research programs. These fellowships typically provide office space, a stipend covering some portion or all of a sabbatical leave, and some research funds. Visiting Fellows are expected to be in residence and to participate in the Friday Seminar and other Institute events.

Postdoctoral Fellowships

IASC Postdoctoral Fellowships are awarded on a nationally competitive basis to recent PhDs whose research directly contributes to the research priorities of the Institute. It is principally designed to support work on first books. These fellowships will in, most cases, be directly linked to specific Institute programs. The tenure of the IASC Postdoctoral Fellowship is one year with the possibility of renewal (for up to three years). To be eligible for a Postdoctoral Fellowship applicants must successfully defend dissertations prior to the start of the academic year in which they have been awarded a fellowship.

Doctoral Fellowships

IASC sponsors two types of fellowships for graduate students: The Graduate Fellowship and the Dissertation Fellowship. The Graduate Fellowship supports students during their comprehensive examination and proposal-writing year. The Dissertation Fellowship supports students through the research and writing stages of their dissertations. Both fellowships are awarded on the basis of demonstrated academic promise and how closely their scholarly interests fit with the Institute’s research priorities.

UVa Faculty Fellowships

Faculty Fellows are selected from UVA faculty on the basis of interest and fit with the Institute’s intellectual mission. Faculty Fellows are expected to attend IASC events, participate in the Institute’s various programs and projects, and to provide professional support to IASC Doctoral Fellows. Faculty Fellows can apply for research and sabbatical support depending on both the Institute's funding priorities and funding availability.

If you are a member of the UVa Faculty and you are interested in a Faculty Fellowship at the Institute, please contact us.

Associate Fellowships

The Associate Fellowship is designed for a number of different purposes: (a) it supports students doing course work in the first years of their doctoral work; (b) it functions as a point of entre into the intellectual work of the Institute for interested scholars at all stages; and (c) it offers an affiliation for scholars who wish to participate in Institute-sponsored events and initiatives, but whose own research does not directly contribute to its specific research priorities.  The Associate Fellowship does not come with funding, though Associate Fellows can apply for research support.

If you are interested in Associate Fellowships at the Institute, please contact us.