Fellowships
Fellowship Types
The Mid-Career Fellowship (formally Senior Fellowship) is for established scholars with an appropriate record of research/publication for the maximum duration of one year in the period from early September to the end of August. The annual stipend is $70,000, a research allowance of $6,000, plus return travel to New York and health insurance. A Mid-Career Fellow will mentor Pre-and Post-Doctoral Fellows in the Center in partnership with the Head of Center and the Distinguished Scholar. Later in the fellowship they will lead a closed seminar of invited early-career scholars from a range of university/college/museum contexts, including Leonard A. Lauder Fellows, on a theme to be agreed with the Head of Center. They will also give a public lecture on their work in the later stages of the Fellowship.
A one- or two-year fellowship at the Research Center for a post-doctoral scholar at an early career stage. Fellows will receive a stipend of $60,000, an annual research travel fund of $6,000, as well as health insurance. The Post-Doctoral Fellow will participate in and benefit from the activities of the Center and engage with the wider fellowship community at The Met.
A two-year fellowship at the Research Center for Ph.D. students working on a dissertation. Fellows will receive a stipend of $50,000, an annual research travel fund of $6,000, as well as health insurance. The Pre-doctoral Fellow will participate in and benefit from the activities of the Center and engage with the wider fellowship community The Met.
Our Fellows

Learn about our current and past cohorts of pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and senior Fellows and their work while in residence in the Research Center.