The American Indian Program exists to encourage participation of Native Americans in Smithsonian activities and to support collection research, exhibitions, and public programming as they relate to Native peoples. More information can be found here.

The Global Volcanism Program for Visiting Scientist/Postdoctoral Fellowship is a fellowship/visiting senior scientist position in the Department of Mineral Sciences at NMNH in the field of volcanology that is available annually. More information can be found here.

The Peter Buck Fellowship is awarded at both the predoctoral level (up to 2 years) and postdoctoral level (up to 3 years) for work in any area of study related to the National Museum of Natural History’s research staff, collections and facilities.  For more information, click here.

The Link Foundation/Smithsonian Graduate Fellowships in Marine Science awards 12-week graduate student fellowships to conduct marine science research at the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce, Florida.

The Global Genome Initiative Buck Fellowship are two year fellowships that contribute specifically to the goals of the Global Genome Initiative at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH)

No fellowships are currently available.

The Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network (TMON) invites proposals for the MarineGEO Postdoctoral Fellowship Program that will advance goals of the Marine Global Earth Observatory. MarineGEO is a growing, long-term, worldwide research program focused on studying coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystems using standardized approaches. By specializing in coastal systems, MarineGEO studies can reveal the role marine biodiversity plays in maintaining resilient ecosystems in the portion of the ocean where people and marine biodiversity are concentrated and interact most. To find out more, go here.

The Joe and Wanda Corn Fellowship is endowed by their former students Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan and supports scholars whose research interests span American art and American history. Recipients will draw on the Smithsonian’s broad resources in both areas, utilizing the holdings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The Douglass Foundation Fellowship in American Art  is awarded annually to a predoctoral scholar conducting research in American art. The Patricia and Phillip Frost Fellowship is offered to support research in American art and visual culture. The George Gurney Fellowship funds pre- and postdoctoral research on American art, preferably sculpture, in honor of the distinguished career of the museum’s former curator of American sculpture.  The James Renwick Fellowship in American Craft is available for research in American studio crafts or decorative arts from the nineteenth century to the present. The Sara Roby Fellowship in Twentieth-Century American Realism is awarded to a scholar whose research topic is in the area of twentieth-century American realism. The Joshua C. Taylor Fellowship is supported by alumni and friends of the fellowship program. The Terra Foundation Fellowships in American Art seek to foster a cross-cultural dialogue about the history of art of the United States up to 1980. They support work by scholars from abroad who are researching American art or by U.S. scholars who are investigating international contexts for American art. The William H. Truettner Fellowship, which funds pre- and postdoctoral research on American art, is a tribute to Mr. Truettner’s career of nearly fifty years as a curator of painting and sculpture at the museum. The Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship is awarded for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation that concerns the study, appreciation, and recognition of excellence in all aspects of American painting created prior to 1970. The terms of these fellowships, as well as the application guidelines and deadlines, are the same as for the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program. Applicants to the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program who propose a primary advisor/supervisor from the Smithsonian American Art Museum will be considered for all relevant award categories at this unit. More information about all these opportunities can be found here.

The CFA Postdoctoral Fellowship is available at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), beginning in the summer or autumn of each year. Research programs at the CfA include instrumentation, observation, and theory in atomic and molecular physics, geophysics, the solar system, stars, galaxies, and cosmology. Techniques used range from computer simulations through observations in the radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X and gamma-ray bands, to in-strument development and laboratory experiments. Facilities include the MMT (Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Arizona), Magellan (Las Campanas Observatory, Chile), and other optical and infrared telescopes; radio telescopes, especially the Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea, Hawaii; a large Beowulf cluster and network of workstations; a number of specialized laboratories; an outstanding library system; and access to data from a wide range of space missions, especially the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope. More information can be found here. The  SAO has a Visiting Scientist Program designed to expand the scholarly exchange of scientific information in the areas of atomic and molecular physics; infrared, optical, radio, and X-ray astronomy; planetary sciences; geophysics; solar and stellar physics; and theoretical astrophysics. The Program annually attracts many international and national visitors. They come for a well-defined scientific purpose, which may be to collaborate with a specific individual, to access unique data, or to use specialized facilities. Visits vary from a few days to several weeks or months, and in some cases up to a year. Stipend support varies with the length of the visit and the amount of support being provided by the visitor’s home institution, or by a fellow-ship such as a Guggenheim, NATO, etc. More information is available here.

The Smithsonian’s Fellowships in Museum Practice (FMP) program is an opportunity for mid- and senior-level museum personnel, researchers and training providers to spend time at the Smithsonian researching a particular topic of interest that is relevant to their work and the museum profession. The goal of the program is foster innovative scholarship and expand the availability of information that has the potential to contribute to improvements in museum operations. Fellowships are awarded annually for a period of up to 6 months. To find out more, go here.

The Smithsonian Institution’s Gardens invites applications for research fellowships in the field of horticulture. Fellowships are in-residential and support full-time independent, thesis and dissertation research. The Enid A. Haupt Fellowship in Horticulture was made possible by a generous endowment from philanthropist Enid Annenberg Haupt who, during her lifetime, passionately supported the creation of public gardens and preservation of horticultural institutions. In that same spirit, the Smithsonian Institution’s Gardens offers the Haupt Fellowship to encourage the study of, and professions in, the field of horticulture in its broadest sense. To find out more, go here.

Baird Society Resident Scholar Program

Awards stipends of $3,500 per month for up to six months to support scholarly research in the Special Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries in Washington, DC and New York, NY, in an extensive range of subject areas. Doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars are welcome to apply. Scholars must be in residence at the Smithsonian during the award period. Collections include printed materials on world’s fairs (19th and early 20th centuries); manufacturer’s commercial trade catalogs in the National Museum of American History Library (285,000 pieces representing 30,000 companies dating from the 19th and 20th centuries); natural history rare books in the Cullman Library (pre-1840 works on topics such as botany, zoology, travel & exploration, museums & collecting, geology, and anthropology); air and space history in the National Air and Space Museum Library’s Ramsey Room (ballooning, rocketry, and aviation, late 18th to early 20th centuries); James Smithson’s library in the Cullman Library; rare materials in European and American decorative arts, architecture, and design in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Library (18th to 20th centuries); and history of art and artists (exhibition catalogs, catalogues raisonnés, serials, dissertations and artists’ ephemera) at the American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library. This award is supported by the many annual donors to the Smithsonian Libraries. More information can be found here.

The Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program

Awards stipends of $3,500 per month for up to six months to support scholarly research in the Special Collections of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology in Washington, DC. Doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars are welcome to apply. Scholars must be in residence at the Smithsonian during the award period. The Dibner Library has manuscripts and rare books dating primarily from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Collection strengths are in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, classical natural philosophy, theoretical physics (up to the early twentieth century), experimental physics (especially electricity and magnetism), engineering technology (from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century), and scientific apparatus and instruments. This award is supported by the family of Frances K. Dibner. More information can be found here.

Neville-Pribram Mid-Career Educators Awards

The  Neville-Pribram Mid-Career Educators Awards allow mid-career educators to be in residence and utilize the Smithsonian Libraries distinctive collections, focusing on science, history, culture and arts.  The awards are open to middle & high school teachers, college teachers, and museum educators working on curriculum development or publications in print or electronic form. More information can be found here.

The Margaret Henry Dabney Penick Resident Scholar Program

Supports scholarly research into the legacy of Patrick Henry and his political circle, the early political history of Virginia, the history of the American Revolution, founding era ideas and policy-making, as well as science, technology, and culture in colonial America and the Early National Period. The stipend for this long-term fellowship is $45,000 for nine consecutive months. Senior scholars are particularly encouraged to apply, but all applicants must hold a PhD to be awarded the fellowship. Fellows are expected to give at least one public lecture during the tenure of the fellowship as well as to show definite progress toward a publishable manuscript by the end of the fellowship period. Fellows may also be asked to cooperate with the Library administration in planning scholarly programs. This award is supported by a bequest from Margaret P. Nuttle. More information can be found here.

The Latino Museum Studies Program provides a national forum for graduate students to share, explore and discuss the representation and interpretation of Latino cultures in the context of the American experience. It provides a unique opportunity to meet and engage with Smithsonian professionals, scholars from renowned universities, and with leaders in the museum field.  The program lasts five weeks and is offered in two components.  The first is a one-week instructional seminar that includes panel discussions, lectures, workshops, and behind-the-scenes access to Smithsonian collections.  The second is a four-week practicum with participants working on specific projects with Smithsonian professionals.  Program Dates: June 27-August 5, 2016.  Deadline:  All application materials are due no later than April 8, 2016 at 5:00PM EDT. For more information, visit latino.si.edu/Education/Studies. To apply, create a user account in SOLAA at solaa.si.edu.