Jobs
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POSTDOC: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Philippine Art, University of Oslo, Norway
Deadline: October 15, 2025
The position is associated with the European Research Council-funded Consolidator project ECOART - An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization, which will consist of a team of one Principal Investigator, three doctoral research fellows and two post-doctoral research fellows. The project investigates the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia, a space dominated by European and Chinese economic spheres of influence, in an era of early modern globalization from 1500 to 1800. Funding for fieldwork, archival research, conference attendance and publications will be available to all members of the project. More information about the project, the team and its activities can be found here.
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JOB: Assistant Curator of Latin American Art and Culture, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, USA
Deadline: October 26, 2025
The Assistant Curator of Latin American Art and Culture will lead exhibitions, acquisitions, research, and interpretation within Gilcrease’s broad visual culture and archival collections. These include fine art from the 16th through 20th centuries from throughout the Americas, ranging from Spanish colonial retablos and work by Juan Correa to paintings, drawings, and prints by Diego Rivera, Miguel Covarrubias, José Clemente Orozco, Maria Izquierdo, and Rufino Tamayo, as well as recent work by Mexican folk and self-taught artists. In addition, Gilcrease holds one of the most significant collections in the United States of manuscripts, documents, and rare books pertaining to European settlement and conflicts across New Spain, from the Caribbean and present-day Mexico to South America, dating from the 16th to 19th centuries. These objects’ stories are intricately intertwined with other museum holdings, notably collections of cultural material spanning more than 2,000 years, including works by Incan, Moche, Mayan, Panamanian (Gran Coclé), Mixtec, Aztec, Zapotec, Toltec, and West Mexican (Occidentale) creators. Furthermore, Gilcrease has nearly encyclopedic representation of Taos School artists and broad artistic and historical collections pertaining to the American Southwest within its holdings of Indigenous and non-Indigenous objects from the present-day United States.
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FUNDING: The Frank Zurlino publication prize for early career scholars
Deadline: March 31, 2026
The Friends of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and Museum Ludwig e. V., hereinafter referred to as freunde, and the editorial team of the Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, published in Cologne, are now accepting submissions for the annual »Frank Zurlino« publication prize for young art historians under the age of 35 (on the date of submission). The prize will be awarded for the first time in 2026 to a previously unpublished research paper on the topics covered by the yearbook that impresses the judging panel with its originality and scholarly rigor.
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FUNDING: Leonard A. Lauder Spring Publication Grants, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Applications are open until September 30, 2025, for Leonard A. Lauder Spring Publication Grants, supporting new work in the field of modern art. We use the term ‘modern art’ inclusively to refer to architecture, drawing, design (including exhibition, graphic, interior and stage design), film, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles in the period from the last third of the nineteenth century through the 1960s, from any country, region or culture. (If your application is focused on art from the 1970s onwards or on other historical periods, it will be rejected). Recognizing the increasing costs associated with publishing, awards support illustrations and copyright, translations into English, diagrams, copy editing and indexing (if not provided by the publisher). The maximum award available is $12,000 with most grants typically in the range $4,000-7,000. Applications are assessed by a panel.
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FUNDING: Leonard A. Lauder Fellowships in Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2026–2027
Deadline: October 17, 2025
The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomes applications for pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and senior fellowships, and a new non-residential doctoral dissertation completion fellowship.
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JOB: Visiting Assistant Professor in Critical Museum Studies, University of California, Riverside, 2025- 2026
Deadline: December 1, 2025
The Department of the History of Art at the University of California, Riverside, seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor to teach two courses in Critical Museum Studies during the 2025-2026 academic year. The syllabi should reflect the applicant’s research expertise–region and period are open–with attention to leading issues in the field of Collecting and Display broadly conceived.
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FUNDING: Getty Library Research Grants, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Deadline: October 1, 2025
Getty Library Research Grants support a wide range of research pursuits through an open call for applications. They provide partial, short-term support for researchers requiring the use of specific collections housed in the Getty Library.
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FUNDING: Caribbean Art and Its Diasporas Fellowship, Clark Institute, MA, USA
Deadline: October 15, 2025
The Caribbean is home to some of the most influential critical theorists, poets, writers, and artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This fellowship supports art historians, artists, critics, and writers who are engaging with the complexity of critical Caribbean scholarship, art, and visual practices today.
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FUNDING: I Tatti/Museo Nacional del Prado Joint Fellowship
Deadline: November 15, 2025
Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, and the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid, Spain, offer a joint residential fellowship for the 2026-2027 academic year. Fellows will spend the fall term (mid-September to mid–December 2026) in Madrid, supported by the American Friends of the Prado Museum and the spring term (January to June 2027) in Florence. The fellowship is designed for early and mid-career scholars in the field of art history, with preference given to advanced research projects that address the relationship between Spain and Italy (including transnational connections and dialogues with Latin America) during the Renaissance, broadly understood historically to include the period from the 14th to the 17th century.
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FUNDING: CAA Michael Aurbach Fellowship for Excellence in Visual Art
Deadline: October 15, 2025
The Michael Aurbach Fellowship for Excellence in Visual Art was established to recognize CAA members who have obtained an MFA or equivalent in studio art and are currently teaching studio classes full-time or part-time at a university or community college. CAA Annual Conference registration plus $7,500 are awarded annually.
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FUNDING: CAA Art History Travel Fund
Deadline: October 15 for Spring 2026 exhibitions
The Art History Travel Fund, established to provide students with opportunities to gain first-hand knowledge of original works of art, grants instructors of qualifying undergraduate and graduate art history classes up to $10,000 to cover student and instructor travel, accommodations, and admission fees to special exhibitions in the US and around the world.
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FUNDING: National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Fellowships, 2026-2028
Deadlines:
Senior Fellowships: October 15, 2025
Postdoctoral Fellowships: October 15, 2025
Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowships: November 15, 2025
The Center awards fellowships to scholars across various career levels, from predoctoral students to senior professionals. We host around 20 fellows at any given time at the National Gallery of Art and support predoctoral fellows conducting research around the world.
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FUNDING: BIPOC Scholar Prize, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Deadline: October 31, 2025
The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association is pleased to announce the BIPOC Scholars Prize, which recognizes excellence in scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on any aspect of the long nineteenth century (French Revolution to World War I) completed by a scholar who identifies as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or a person of color). The winning article will be selected by a committee of diverse nineteenth-century scholars representing a variety of disciplines. The winner will receive a cash award of $500 to be presented at the annual NCSA conference. NCSA encourages winners to attend the annual conference and will waive the conference registration fee. (Winners have to become NCSA members, but will be provided with a coupon during the conference registration period.)
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FUNDING: Research Fellowships, Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Deadline: unspecified
Pridi Banomyong International College, Thammasat University is happy to announce that we are offering packages for Visiting Scholars and Research Fellows. This would be perfect for those who wish to do research in Thailand and Bangkok directly. It would be particularly suitable for those who study Buddhism, Thai and Southeast Asian history and politics and international studies, as well as anthropologists and sociologists. The college is situated in Tha Prachan campus, in the heart of the old city of Bangkok and near to Wat Mahathat and other important sites. Our college has a growing community of scholarship, having recently held successful conferences on Buddhist amulets, Jataka Tales and, soon to be, on Ghosts in Thailand.