Warburg Institute – University of London School of Advanced Study – Short-term Research Fellowships

The aim of these awards is to provide financial support towards living and subsistence costs in London to enable scholars to undertake a period research in intellectual, cultural or art history at the Warburg Institute. Part of the award may also be used for up to four weeks of research travel.

The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images and society. It is dedicated to the survival and transmission of culture across time and space, with special emphasis on the afterlife of antiquity. Its open-stack Library, Photographic Collection and Archive serve as an engine for interdisciplinary research, postgraduate teaching and a prestigious events and publication programme.

The annual group of fellows benefits from and contributes to the vibrant intellectual life of the Institute.  They are given a space to work, are able to offer an introduction to their work in a Tea Time Talk and are encouraged to contribute the Institute’s blog: Mnemosyne. Situated in the heart of the Bloomsbury Knowledge Quarter, the Warburg offers scholars the opportunity to engage with academics not only within the institute, but also at local universities, museum and galleries and research institutes.

Brian Hewson Crawford Fellowship
Two-month fellowship for the study of any aspect of the classical tradition. It is open to European scholars other than of British nationality.

Henri Frankfort Fellowship
Two-month fellowship for the study in the intellectual and cultural history of the ancient Near East, with particular reference to society, art, architecture, religion, philosophy and science; the relations between the cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Aegean, and their influence on later civilizations. The Fellowship is not intended to support archaeological excavation.

Albin Salton Fellowship
Two-month fellowship to pursue research into cultural contacts between Europe, the East, and the New World in the late medieval, Renaissance and early modern periods. It is intended to promote the understanding of those elements of cultural and intellectual history which led to the formation of a new world-view, understood in the broadest cultural, political and socio-economic terms, as Europe began to develop contacts with the world outside Europe, and that world came into contact with Europe.

Frances A. Yates Fellowships
Two-, three- and four-month fellowships for research in any aspect of cultural and intellectual history, with preference given to those whose work is concerned with those areas of the medieval and Renaissance history to which Dame Frances contributed. Candidates living in the U.K. may apply for three- or four-months only.