Scholarships
Student scholarships: British Archaeological Association’s Toulouse Romanesque Conference, deadline 31 January 2026
The British Archaeological Association are excited to announce that they have a number of Student scholarships for those wishing to attend the ninth biennial International Romanesque Conference. Deadline for applications is 31st January 2026.
Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture, Courtauld, statement of intent deadline 17 November 2025
The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.
Scholarship: The Dowley/Retford Studentship in History of Art, Birkbeck University of London, deadline 16 June 2025
Birkbeck, University of London, invites application for the their Dowley/Retford Studentship in History of Art.
Scholarships and Essay Prizes with ARTES, deadline 30 April 2024
ARTES are pleased to invite submissions for the 2024 Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize and ARTES-CEEH Scholarships.
Scholarship: British Archaeological Association 2024 OCHS Scholarship, deadline 1 February, 2024
Applications are invited for the British Archaeological Association 2024 OCHS Scholarship.
Scholarship: Index of Medieval Art Student Travel Grant, deadline 1 October 2023
For the second year, the Index of Medieval Art is pleased to offer a student travel grant to attend this year’s Index conference, Whose East? Defining, Challenging, and Exploring Eastern Christian Art, on November 11, 2023.
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Post-Doctoral Fellowships & Fellowships
Fellowships: Call for Expressions of Interest from Postdoctoral Scholars, British School at Athens (Deadline 9th June 2023)
The British School at Athens invites expressions of interest from postdoctoral scholars who wish to apply for a range of fellowships schemes.
Fellowship: Research Fellowship, DFK Paris and INHA (Deadline 30th June 2023)
The fellowship is intended for outstanding art historians from France, Germany, or abroad who are at the beginning of their careers (doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers).
Fellowship: Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study Residential Fellowships 2024-25 (Deadline 1st June 2023)
The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) offers a General Residential Fellowship Programme, mainly in the humanities and social sciences, open to scholars from all countries.
Fellowship: Census Fellowship, Reception of Antiquity, Berlin, Rome, and London (Deadline 31st May 2023)
These fellowships grow out of the longstanding collaboration between the Humboldt, the Hertziana, and the Warburg in the research project Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance.
Fellowship: Ad Astra Fellow, University College Dublin School of History (Deadline 26th May 2023)
The School of History welcomes applications from excellent candidates whose expertise expands and strengthens the School’s research and its undergraduate and graduate teaching programmes. The School has identified the history of the Middle Ages as a strategic area of interest in which it would particularly like to receive applications.
Fellowship: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Smarthistory (Deadline 26 May 2023)
Smarthistory is seeking applications for an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow to develop public art history content. This is a one-year full-time position, beginning September 2023. Applicants will have a Ph.D. in art history (within the last two years) as well as teaching experience. Applicants with diverse backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply.
Deadline Reminder: Dumbarton Oaks Mentorship Program for Scholars Affected by the Conflict in Ukraine (Deadline 30th April 2023)
The four-session remote mentorship program co-organized with scholars at Boise State University, University of Kent, Princeton University, and Tufts University—will offer professional development and workshop opportunities around a variety of topics.
Fellowships: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, 2024, deadline: 31 January 2023
The Herzog August Bibliothek is an independent research centre funded by the State of Lower Saxony. The scope of the library’s holdings constitutes a unique archive of European culture. Manuscripts, incunabula, rare books and special collections such as engravings, maps and 20th-century artists’ books, enable almost unlimited studies of cultures of knowledge in a global…
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PhD Funding & Studentships
Call for Applications for 3 PhD Students for 4 years: The eikones Graduate School, University of Basel, deadline 12 April 2026
The eikones Graduate School at the Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel invites applications for three positions for doctoral study on the theory and history of the image for four years beginning September 1, 2026.
2 PhD positions, University of Basel, Eikones: Center for the Theory and History of the Image, deadline 27 April 2025
The eikones Graduate School at the Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel invites applications for two positions for doctoral study on the theory and history of the image for four years beginning September 1, 2025.
PhD Position: Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities (StoryPharm), deadline 15 December 2024
The StoryPharm project is pleased to announce 4 three-year Special Scientist PhD in Medieval Art History with a generous research allowance in an international, multi- partner EU project, employment beginning between June and August 2025.
PhD Position: Project ‘Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852)’, University of Fribourg, deadline 15 December 2023
Applications are invited for the PhD position as part of the project ‘Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852)’.
PhD Funding: ‘Reading and Writing in Medieval Women’s Religious Communities’ University of Cambridge and British Library, deadline 4 January 2024
This Collaborative Doctoral Award would give you the opportunity to investigate the culture of female religious communities in the Middle Ages, through a study of their surviving manuscripts.
Funded PhD in Medieval Painting and the End of Life, Northeastern University London (NU London), deadline 31 October 2023
Northeastern University London is offering a fully-funded PhD scholarship in Art History, particularly focusing on medieval painting and the end of life themes.
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Essay & Publication Prizes
Essay competition: Church Monuments Society Essay Competition, deadline 31 January 2025
The Council of the Church Monuments Society offers a biennial prize of £500 called the Church Monuments Essay Prize, to be awarded with a certificate for the best essay submitted in the relevant year.
Journal of Historic Buildings and Places, 2024 Stephen Croad Prize (Deadline 2 August 2024)
Historic Buildings & Places are now inviting submissions for the 2024 Stephen Croad Prize. They are seeking essays on new discoveries on the historic buildings of England and Wales.
Prize: Haboldt-Mutters Prize, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Deadline 31 December 2023
Simiolus is now accepting submissions for the annual Haboldt-Mutters Prize for young art historians. REQUIREMENTS Scholars who wish to compete for this award for the best original contribution on European art prior to 1950 should be younger than 35 at the time of submission and their paper should be limited to a maximum of 20,000…
Call for Applicants: Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize (Deadline: 31st January 2023)
ARTES invite submissions for the Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Prize for the best art-historical essay on a Spanish theme. The deadline is 31st January 2023 To encourage emerging scholars that are based in the UK, ARTES, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, awards an annual essay medal to the author of the best art-historical essay or study on a Spanish theme,…
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