Virginia Humanities is currently accepting applications for its Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Scholars Fellowship 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About Virginia HBCU Scholars Fellowship
The Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Scholars Fellowship seeks to develop and amplify underrepresented voices and research within the academy and applied humanities spaces. This fellowship helps HBCU-affiliated writers, community scholars, and faculty members with their research process through funding, access to academic publishing outlets (journals and presses), public promotion of their work, and professional community/peer support.
Benefits of Virginia HBCU Scholars Fellowship
- Short-term fellowship awards range from $5,000 to $15,000 based on the applicant's proposed budget.
- Long-term fellowship awards range from $20,000 to $45,000 based on tge applicant's proposed budget.
Virginia HBCU Scholars Fellowship Requirements
- HBCU affiliation is required and defined as current faculty or alumni (does NOT need to be a Virginia-based institution).
- No residential requirement or Virginia address needed. This is a mostly remote opportunity with at least one in-person commitment at our office in Charlottesville.
- Fellowship deliverables should result in a scholarly contribution or meaningful public humanities work engaging a large audience (e.g., journal article, book proposal, chapter, or folio, higher-ed related pedagogical or curricular outcome, documentary, public project, etc.). Please take time to view the work of prior fellows and other Virginia Humanities sponsored projects to see the type of work we support.
- We do not fund advocacy or political action projects that promote a certain policy, exclusively K-12 focused work (please see our K-12 Educator fellowship), or non-humanities related projects.
Application Date and Process
- Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
01 March, 2026
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