National Park Service Mellon Humanities Fellowship
Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program places recent humanities PhDs with National Park Service sites and programs across the agency. Its aim is to advance the National Park Service education mission through new research and study in the humanities. Mellon Fellows work with National Park Service mentors, scholars, and community partners to complete original research projects, and develop new interpretive and educational programming. The Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is a signature element of the National Park Service’s commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
ACE collaboratively hires and manages thirty-one fellows nationwide as part of the Mellon Foundation’s generous grant to the National Park Foundation (NPF) to support humanities scholars in this vital project. Fellows are hired as part of a cohort. 15 fellows will serve from 2023-2025 and 16 fellows will serve from 2024-2026.
This program is primarily funded by the Mellon Foundation and the NPS Foundation.
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Who May Apply
Applications for the program are currently closed.