[Ahs-faculty] Fwd: Art History - NFAH fellowships and grants

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Hi Everyone,

Please see below for new potential funding sources.

-Mark

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From: Christian Kleinbub <info at nfah.org>



Dear Colleague,

Could you please share the following with your art history faculty
(full-time and part-time)?

The New Foundation for Art History is currently accepting applications for
two sources of funding:
1) Non-Residential Fellowships -- All tenured and tenure-track faculty are
eligible to apply. Full details regarding application materials can be
found below my signature.
2) Publication Subvention Grants -- Art historians at any career level are
eligible to apply. Full details regarding application materials can be
found below my signature.

The New Foundation for Art History (NFAH) is a non-profit organization that
seeks to support budding and mid-career art historians. It distinguishes
itself from other established granting institutions in so far as it will
award those applicants who demonstrate not only research prowess but also
need. More Information about NFAH opportunities and the foundation itself
can be found on our website, www.nfah.org.

If you are not the best point of contact for this, please let me know. If
you have alerted me to this in the past, please reach out once more. We are
working on updating our email list.

Sincerely,
Rebecca M. Howard
Foundation Officer
New Foundation for Art History
info at nfah.org


*Non-Residential Fellowships 2026-2027*

The New Foundation for Art History offers two year-long, non-residential
fellowships for mid-career scholars. These fellowships will be awarded to
tenure-track assistant and associate professors carrying out innovative
work on the art of any era or culture. Applications will be judged above
all on the intellectual merit of the project as demonstrated by the
application, letters, and related publications. However, in evaluating
these applications, the NFAH selection committee will give special
consideration to the applicant’s professional situation, including his/her
home university’s ability to fund research time. For this reason, NFAH
fellowships will favor ambitious scholars at public or smaller private
institutions without the resources to enable full-year research leave
sufficient to particular scholarly enterprises, especially book projects.
At the present time, the NFAH only accepts applications from scholars at
U.S. institutions.
*Award*

Fellowship grants will constitute up to half of the candidate’s regular
annual salary, not to exceed $50,000.
*Application*

Candidates must send a project proposal (2500 words maximum), one recent
publication (best related to the project under review), a short cv (maximum
2 pages, including other grants received), and two reference letters. One
reference letter should address the quality of the projected research; the
second should come from the college dean or the chair of the applicant’s
department laying out the funding situation at the candidate’s home
institution. This letter should evaluate the extent of the home
institution’s contribution to the research of the applicant, or the limits
thereof, and offer an objective assessment of the candidate’s professional
situation and research potential (this letter will be particularly
important in identifying need). Applications will be judged by the NFAH
fellowship committee, which is constituted of professional art historians.

Application materials should be forwarded as a single pdf (named with the
candidate’s first initial and surname) to *info at nfah.org* <info at nfah.org> by
January 16, 2026. Recommenders should send their letters as pdfs on
letterhead separately to the same email address. Finalists will be
interviewed by video conference.

The NFAH actively seeks to promote diversity in the field.
Application Deadline: *January 16, 2026*Candidates will be informed of the
NFAH decision by April 10, 2026

Publication Subvention Grants

This year the NFAH will be offering five publication subvention grants with
prizes between $1,000 and $5,000 for book publication. Like other
applications received by the NFAH, these applications will be read by the
foundation leadership and relevant foundation committees. Applications are
particularly welcome from scholars (tenure track or otherwise) writing in
less developed fields where image creation and rights might be a particular
impediment to publication.

Applicants should submit a cover letter (maximum 750 words) explaining
their publication and the reason for needing publication subvention aid, as
well as a copy of the contract (signed and countersigned by author and
publisher), and the current text of the book’s introduction. In the cover
letter, applicants should not only describe the project but list reasons
for special assistance. These reasons may include such things as lack of
institutional support or the difficulty of obtaining images for publication
(e.g. commissioning new photography). They must also detail other sources
of funding. A letter of support from the editor/publisher is also
desirable. As with other NFAH prizes, need will be a major criterium for
selection. All materials may be submitted as pdfs labeled with first
initial and last name of the candidate via email to info at nfah.org.

The NFAH actively seeks to promote the diversity of the field of art
history.
*Deadline: February 20, 2026*

*CANDIDATES WILL BE INFORMED OF THE NFAH DECISION BY APRIL 24, 2026*
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