Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Fellowships
Wallace Fellowship
Four Wallace Fellowships, for four or six months, are available annually for scholars who explore the historiography and impact of the Italian Renaissance in the Modern Era (19th-21st centuries). Projects could address a range of topics from historiography to the reaction to, transformation of, and commentary on the Italian Renaissance and its ties to modernity. Also welcome are projects on museum and collecting history, and on the survival of the Renaissance in modern art and architecture, in literature and music, and in philosophy and political thought. READ MORE
Berenson Fellowship
Four Berenson Fellowships, for four or six months, are available annually for scholars who explore “Italy in the World”. Projects should address the transnational dialogues between Italy and other cultures (e.g. Latin American, Mediterranean, African, Asian etc.) during the Renaissance, broadly understood historically to include the period from the 14th to the 17th century.
Fellowship in the Digital Humanities
Two Digital Humanities Fellowships, for four or six months, are available annually for projects that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries and actively employ digital technology. Applicants can be scholars in the humanities or social sciences, librarians, archivists, and data science professionals. Projects should apply digital technologies such as mapping, textual analysis, visualization, or the semantic web to topics on any aspect of the Italian Renaissance.
Villa I Tatti – Boğaziçi University Joint Fellowship
Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (VIT, Florence) and the Byzantine Studies Research Center of Boğaziçi University (BSRC, Istanbul) offer a joint, one-year residential fellowship. Scholars will spend the fall term at one center and the spring term at the other. The fellowship will focus on the interaction between Italy and the Byzantine Empire (ca. 1300 to ca. 1700).
Craig Hugh Smyth Fellowship
Two Craig Hugh Smyth Fellowship, for four or six months, are available annually for curators and conservators pursuing advanced research in any aspect of the Italian Renaissance.
David and Julie Tobey Fellowship
One David and Julie Tobey Fellowship, for four or six months, is awarded annually to support research on drawings, prints, and illustrated manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance, and especially the role that these works played in the creative process, the history of taste and collecting, and questions of connoisseurship.