The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Centre for Scholars and Writers, an international fellowship programme, is inviting applications from scholars, writers, academics, independent scholars, journalists, creative writers such as novelists, playwrights, and poets, as well as translators, and visual artists for its nine-month fellowship programme.
The Fellowship is open to people whose work will benefit directly from access to the collections at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Located within The New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Centre for Scholars and Writers Fellowship is open to outstanding. It selects 15 Fellows yearly for a nine-month term at the Library. In addition to working on their projects, the Fellows engage in an ongoing exchange of ideas within the Centre and in public forums throughout the Library.
Fellows’ work will benefit from the renowned New York Public Library’s extraordinary and comprehensive collection, one of the world’s preeminent resources for study in anthropology, art, geography, history, languages and literature, philosophy, politics, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, sports, and urban studies.
Fellows will each receive a stipend of $90,000, the use of an office with a computer, and full access to the Library’s physical and electronic resources. The Library, however, expects Fellows to work at the Cullman Centre five days a week, Monday through Friday, for the duration of the Fellowship term, which runs from September through May. As part of the Fellowship, each Fellow will give a talk over lunch on his or her current work-in-progress to the other Fellows and a wide range of guests, and may be asked to take part in other programmes at The New York Public Library.
The deadline to apply is September 26, 2025, at 5 PM EDT.
For more information and to apply for the fellowship, please go to https://www.nypl.org/about/fellowships-institutes/cullman-center-scholars-writers.
