Scholars Without Borders Opportunities

ARISC seeks to award three graduate/postdoctoral fellowships of up to $2,250 to support research in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Graduate students enrolled in accredited degree-granting programs in the U.S. or Canada and postdoctoral or early-career scholars (scholars who have received their PhD since 2021) are eligible to apply. In exceptional cases, awards will be granted to applicants who do not meet these requirements.

Syracuse University invites applications for fellows to join a vibrant scholarly and public engagement community at the Humanities Center, University, and in Central New York. This two-year appointment (July 16, 2026 – July 15, 2028) combines publicly engaged research, teaching, programming, and creative work. It is not remote/virtual and the residency period may not be deferred; compensation will include salary of $64,000.

The Department of Media and Journalism Studies within the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for a postdoctoral position in monetization, governance, and the creator economy. The postdoctoral position is part of the research project New Media Monetization. The postdoc is a full-time, 2.5-year fixed-term position. It begins on March 1, 2026.

The Berlin House of Representatives Study Foundation offers grants to exceptional early-career researchers from the US, UK, France, and Soviet successor states to support research on topics related to Germany or German-international relations, particularly in the humanities or social sciences.

The Humboldt Foundation invites applications to its 2026 residency program on the theme "Democracy 2.26: Designing Political Participation." The program will take place from June-October 2026 and includes a 6-week residency in Berlin/Brandenburg, Germany.

The Grant Programme of the Berlin House of Representatives awards funding to young researchers in any subject area from the United States, the United Kingdom, France and states that once belonged to the Soviet Union. Eligible candidates are either researching Berlin and, therefore, German issues or the German international relations or they are working on projects requiring access to the Berlin research institutions. 

The Cluster of Excellence ROOTS (Social, Environmental, and Cultural Connectivity in Past Societies) at Kiel University is offering the 5 positions as postdoctoral researchers to be filled at the July 1, 2026. 

Washington University in St. Louis calls for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship program designed to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and interpretive social sciences. We invite applications from recent PhDs, DPhils, or D.F.A.s whose research employs historical methods and approaches as an integral part of their interdisciplinary research.

The Polonsky Academy at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute will award up to seven Fellowships in the humanities or social sciences for up to four years, beginning October 1, 2026. The Fellowship offers an annual stipend of $40,000 and $2,000 for research and related expenses, and other benefits.

The Henry Chauncey, Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Fellowship offers 3 positions for one year, renewable for one additional year. The position seeks  junior scholars from around the globe whose work addresses questions of statecraft and grand strategy and demonstrates excellence in one of a range of academic disciplines and methodologies. They are expected to use their time at Yale to conduct original research and prepare manuscripts for publications. The fellowship will take place at Yale University, and the salary is $68,000, plus $5,000 for research expenses.

Postdoctoral Fellow for Leukemia Research: The ADVANTAGE Division of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences is seeking a motivated Postdoctoral Fellow specializing in leukemia research. This position is part of an ambitious European Project, ArtCell, aimed at developing artificial CAR-T cells.

U.S.-RAR aims to strengthen U.S.-Russia bonds within higher education. The program partners with higher education institutions in exile to support displaced Russian educators in creating new university courses for Russian students that rival the censored, ideologized courses taught by Russian institutions. The courses will be developed in consultation with American faculty specialists and will be taught at these five Russian universities in exile.

ARISC is offering up to $5,000 for collaborative projects focused on preserving and conserving Armenia’s archaeological and historical heritage. Proposals must be submitted jointly by a team of two or more scholars and/or specialists (at least one must be a citizen of the U.S. and one a citizen of the Republic of Armenia). Grants are offered for a period of up to 12 months. 

The European Solidarity Corps offers funding to support volunteer projects of various lengths, from 2 months up to 1 year, by covering travel costs, accommodation, meals, language courses, and pocket money. Projects should promote EU solidarity and align with the principles of the European Solidarity Corps, focusing on areas such as humanitarian aid, support for refugees/internally displaced people, natural disaster prevention, and related areas described in more detail on the ESC website.

Basic Sciences for Society (BS4S) will support 20 researchers for 36 months, pursuing research in IChF’s areas of excellence—health technologies, advanced biomaterials, photonics, catalysis, and materials for sustainable technologies. Researchers will develop their individual projects and take part in tailored training designed to teach them how to transform basic research into real-world products or services, with support from 12 businesses offering internships and mentorship.

Vanderbilt University is seeking applications for 1-2 postdoctoral scholars to join the Vanderbilt LGBTQ+ Policy Lab beginning in Summer 2026 for a one-year fellowship located in Nashville, Tennessee, paying $75,000. Researchers will focus LGBTQ+ health and economic outcomes.

Aalto University offers scholars fleeing the war in Ukraine the opportunity to continue their academic work as temporary visiting scholars in one of the university's research areas (science, art, technology, and business).

The topic for the position is advancing new linguistic knowledge based on corpus and/or experimental data from the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and construction grammar. The emphasis will be on Russian, though other languages, in particular Ukrainian and other Slavic languages, may be included.

The GSSP funds graduate studies for international scholars at a number of German universities. Note that individuals cannot apply to the GSSP directly. A number of doctoral programs were selected in 2024 to participate in the GSSP initiative. Students seeking scholarships for 2026 should apply to one of the selected doctoral programs, and from there, the institution will nominate/apply to the GSSP on behalf of the student upon admission to the doctoral program.

YCIE offers a 5-week intensive Zoom course for those from non-tech backgrounds (students and researchers from social sciences and humanities, journalists, and public policy experts) who have not used programming and quantitative text analysis in their practice before but would like to acquire new hard skills in text processing and data analysis. This is a paid course, but a limited number of scholarships are available BA and MA-level students.