Bard Graduate Center (BGC) is pleased to announce its Fields of the Future Predoctoral Summer Fellowship program aimed to help promote diversity and inclusion in the advanced study of the material world. BGC invites scholars who have earned a Bachelors or Masters degree in or since 2018 to apply for a funded summer fellowship at BGC. Priority will be given to…
The fellowship programs at Bard Graduate Center are designed to further the institution’s goal of promoting research in the areas of decorative arts, design history, and material culture—what we call the “cultural history of the material world.” The fellowships are intended to fund collections-based research at Bard Graduate Center or elsewhere in New York City, as well as writing or reading projects in which being part of our dynamic research environment is intellectually valuable. Fellows will be paired with BGC faculty and research librarians to connect with human and material resources.
Bard Graduate Center is a graduate research institute devoted to the study of the decorative arts, design history, and material culture, drawing on methodologies and approaches from art history, economic and cultural history, history of technology, material culture studies, philosophy, anthropology, and archaeology. Our MA and PhD degree programs, Gallery exhibitions, research initiatives, and public programs explore new ways of thinking about the cultural history of the material world. We possess a specialized library of 60,000 volumes exclusive of serials and publish the journals West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture and Source: Notes in the History of Art, the book series Cultural Histories of the Material World (all with the University of Chicago Press), and the catalogues that accompany the exhibitions presented every year in our Gallery (with Yale University Press). Over 50 research seminars, lectures, and symposia are scheduled annually and are livestreamed around the world on Bard Graduate Center’s YouTube channel.
Bard Graduate Center is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, mental, or physical disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, familial status, veteran status, or genetic information.Bard is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for all individuals in employment practices, services, programs, and activities.
- This is a two month Fellowship to be held from June 1-July 31, 2021
- Work space provided in our Research Center (38 West 86th Street)
- Stipend of $2,500 per month
- Complimentary furnished guest apartment at Bard Hall (410 West 58th Street)
- Reimbursement for travel to/from New York City (up to $750)
To apply, please submit the following materials electronically via email to [email protected] in a single PDF file: (1) BGC fellowship application form; (2) cover letter explaining why Bard Graduate Center is an appropriate research affiliation and how your work bears on the question “How do we know?” (3) 150- word abstract of project; (4) detailed project description; (5) CV; (6) publication or academic writing sample of approximately 20–30 pages; (7) Names of two references; we will ask you to contact them if needed and letters should be sent by email ([email protected]) or post (to Bard Graduate Center, Research Fellowship Committee, 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024). All materials must be received by November 15, 2019. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. Please direct questions to the Research Fellowship Committee via email ([email protected]) and see our Frequently Asked Questions page.
