The Global Urban Humanities Fellowships for graduate students and faculty at UC Berkeley support research on contemporary and historical cities that engages approaches from the arts and humanities, the humanistic social sciences, and from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and urban planning.

Faculty and graduate student fellows will meet once a week in Spring 2020 to discuss their research. Student fellows receive up to $21,000 and must be PhD students advancing to candidacy by Spring 2020. Priority selection generally given to PhD students pursuing the Graduate Certificate. 

The application deadline is November 16, 2018. For more information, visit the GUH Fellowship website.


If you are interested in applying for the fellowship and missed the 9/14 Graduate Certificate Application deadline, we are able to grant an extension. You can find more information about the Graduate Certificate and download an application form on the Graduate Certificate webpage. Email your complete Certificate application forms to [email protected].


The Global Urban Humanities Initiative is a joint project with the College of Environmental Design and the Arts & Humanities Division of the College of Letters & Science and is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We offer Certificates on the study of cities and urban life along with other opportunities for interdisciplinary research and learning to students and faculty (fellowships, grants, symposia, etc). Visit the Global Urban Humanities Initiative’s website to learn more, or contact Program Coordinator Sarah Hwang

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