Program Description
The Smithsonian Institution encourages access to its collections, staff specialties, and reference resources by visiting scholars, scientists, and students. The Institution offers in-residence appointments for research and study using its facilities, and the advice and guidance of its staff members in fields that are actively pursued by the museums and research organizations of the Institution.
Fellowship opportunities are available for postdoctoral, senior, predoctoral and graduate student researchers in the following fields:
- Animal behavior, ecology, and environmental science, including an emphasis on the tropics
- Anthropology, including archaeology
- Astrophysics and astronomy
- Earth sciences and paleobiology
- Evolutionary and systematic biology
- History of science and technology
- History of art, especially American, contemporary, African, and Asian art, twentieth-century
- American crafts, and decorative arts
- Materials Sciences
- Social and cultural history of the United States
- Folklife
Proposals should fall under at least one of the Smithsonian Institution's four grand challenges: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe; Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet; Valuing World Cultures; and/or Understanding the American Experience.