Fellowship Opportunities

Here is a list of all the current fellowship opportunities at the Smithsonian, sorted by unit. Use this list to get a better sense about where you might like to pursue a fellowship at the Smithsonian; click the links to dig deeper.

Smithsonian-Wide (SI)

• Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Fellowship
• George E. Burch Fellowship in Theoretical Medicine and Affiliated Sciences
• James Smithson Fellowship
• Latino Studies Fellowship Program
• Minority Visiting Students
• Molecular Evolution Fellowships
• Native American Community Scholars Awards
• Native American Visiting Student Awards
• Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
• Smithsonian Biodiversity Genomics and Bioinformatic Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
• Smithsonian Mpala Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Smithsonian Postgraduate Fellowships in Conservation of Museum Collections Program
• Stable Isotope – Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship

Freer-Sackler Galleries (FSGA)

• Anne Van Biema Fellowship
• Iran Heritage Foundation Fellowship
• Lunder Fellowship
• The J.S. Lee Memorial Fellowship

Museum Conservation Institute (MCI)

• Museum Conservation Institute Postdocotral Fellowship in Mass Spectrometry

National Air and Space Museum (NASM)

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• Postdoctoral Earth and Planetary Sciences Fellowship
• The Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History
• Verville Fellowship

National Museum of American History (NMAH)

• Lemelson Center Fellowships
• Lemelson Center Travel to Collections Award

National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)

• Conservation Department Program

National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)

• American Indian Program
• Global Volcanism Program for Visiting Scientist/Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Peter Buck Fellowship

National Zoological Park (NZP)

• Jogayle Howard Postdoctoral Fellowship in Felid Reproduction

Office of the Under Secretary for Science (OUSS)

• Smithsonian Marine Science Network Postdoctoral Fellowship Program – Marinegeo

Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery (SAAM)

• The Douglass Foundation Fellowship in American Art
• The James Renwick Fellowship in American Craft
• The Joe and Wanda Corn Fellowship
• The Joshua C. Taylor Fellowship
• The Patricia and Phillip Frost Fellowship
• The Sara Roby Fellowship in Twentieth-Century American Realism
• The Terra Foundation Fellowships in American Art
• The Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)

• CFA Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship
• SAO Predoctoral Fellowship
• Visiting Scientist Program

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (SCEMS)

• Fellowships in Museum Practice

Smithsonian Gardens (SG)

• The Enid A. Haupt Fellowship in Horticulture

Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL)

• Baird Society Resident Scholars
• Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program

Smithsonian Latino Center (SLC)

• Latino Museum Studies Program (LMSP)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)

• A. Stanley Rand Fellowship Progam
• CFS Research Grants Program
• Short-Term Fellowships
• Short-Term Fellowships for Students in Latin America, Especially Central America and Panama
• Three-Year Postdoctoral Fellowships in Tropical Biology