2025-2026 USHMM Hybrid Fellowships

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce a hybrid research fellowship opportunity as a part of the Broadening Academia Initiative. Successful applicants will receive six (6) months of remote access to the Museum’s digitized archival collections and will be invited for one (1) week of in-person research at the David and Fela Shapell Family Collections, Conservation and Research Center, which houses the Museum’s world-class archival and artifact collections. The period of the fellowship will run from 1 November 2025 to 30 April 2026. Please note that this is a non-residential fellowship.

Application Materials and Guidelines

The application closes May 23, 2025. Applicants will be notified of outcomes in June 2025. 

Qualifications

• Applicants must have earned a PhD.
• Applicants must be North American-based Holocaust scholars who are untenured, contingent, or working outside of academia.
• Applicants must propose an original research project related to the field of Holocaust studies.

 Application Instructions

Competitive applications will include proposals that demonstrate a clear understanding of existing research and where the proposed project contributes to the field.

Applications must be submitted in English via our online application and consist of the following:

1. an online application form
2. a current CV
3. a short summary of the research project and its contribution to the field of Holocaust studies (no more than three double-spaced pages)
4. a personal statement (no more than two double-spaced pages) that indicates why the applicant desires a hybrid fellowship and how the fellowship would advance the applicant’s scholarship or publication agenda
5. a list of specific collections that the applicant plans to access during the research week at the Shapell Center