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Funder name: The Getty Foundation (Postdoctoral Fellowships)

Correspondant: Ms Deborah Marrow
Correspondant title: Director
Address: 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 800
Los Angeles
CA 90049
Country: USA
Telephone: +1 310 440 7374
E-mail: researchgrants@getty.edu
Website: http://www.getty.edu
Funding objective / Areas of interest: Overall mission of the Foundation is to support institutions and individuals all over the world, funding a diverse range of projects that promote the understanding and conservation of the visual arts. The Foundation runs several programmes, one of which is the Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme, through which funding is awarded to outstanding scholars in the early stages of their careers, allowing them the flexibility to travel and study wherever necessary to undertake their work. Grants support interpretive research projects that make a substantial and original contribution to the understanding of art and its history. Any study, research project or publication which is about art and art history may be considered. Please see separate entry of The Getty Foundation for The Collaborative Research Grants Programme.
Type of funding available: Pre and Postdoctoral Fellowships; Research Projects
Beneficiary type:
Eligibility criteria: Applications are welcome from scholars of all nationalities. Predoctoral fellowship applicants must have advanced to candidacy by the time of the fellowship start date and should expect to complete their dissertations during the fellowship period. Predoctoral fellows who receive their doctorate while in residence automatically become postdoctoral fellows.
Exclusions / restrictions: n/a
Example grants: Previous Postdoctoral Fellowships awarded included: scholar at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY for “Villa Culture in Renaissance Dubrovnik: Architecture and Identity between Humanism and the Counter-Reformation”; Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands for “Dubuffet and Modernism”; Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, London for “In Pursuit of Universalism — Japanese Modernism circa 1910—1930.” Fellowships awarded 2004/05 included: Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany for “Color in Theory and in Spanish Architecture and the European Debate on Polychromy in the Nineteenth Century (1833-1899)”. Previous scholarships, including Getty Scholars taking residency at The Getty Research Institute, have included an award for a scholar to pursue her research on Jewish Art in Nineteenth Century Art Historical Texts, and the Concept of Jewish Art in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Application guidelines: Application details and forms for download are available on the Foundation website. Deadline dates for each yearly round of Fellowships are also provided (usually 1 November in the year preceding the Fellowship start date). Applications must be submitted online; they cannot be accepted by email or in person.
Trustees: J. Paul Getty Trust Board of Trustees: Louise H. Bryson (Chair); Ramone C. Cortines; Frances Daly Fergusson; Joanne C. Kozberg; Paul LeClerc; Luis G. Nogales; Stewart A. Resnick; Neil L. Rudenstine; William E. B. Siart; Mark S. Siegel; Peter J. Taylor; Jay S. Wintrob; James Wood (President and CEO).
Additional information: A maximum of 15 Fellowships are awarded each year through an open competition administered by the Foundation; each application is reviewed and judged by a panel of scholars.
Information sources: Getty Foundation website; US Foundation Directory.

Areas of Interest

Art, Architecture and Performing Arts

Beneficial Areas

Regions
Worldwide

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