Albright Institute in Jerusalem offers eight fellowships of up to US$20,000 for 2027–2028

Applications for the eight 2027–2028 fellowships of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem close on 6 December 2026, the Institute announced; the two letters of reference each applicant needs are due on 5 December.

The largest award, the Seymour Gitin Distinguished Professorship, pays $20,000 to an internationally recognised senior scholar of any nationality, and up to two can be made. Two annual professorships of $13,500 go to postdoctoral scholars: the Ernest S. Frerichs post is open to any nationality, the Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) post to US citizens. Both are expected to mentor the younger fellows.

Four $12,000 fellowships are for doctoral students and PhDs of the last five years. The Seymour Gitin Junior Fellowship and the Marcia and Oded Borowski/Barton Research Fellowship take any nationality. The ECA Junior Research Fellowship, with three awards, is for US citizens, as is the Carol and Eric Meyers Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, which is for doctoral students only and encourages household archaeology. All these run for four months between 1 September 2027 and 31 May 2028. The Lydie T. Shufro Summer Research Fellowship, open to doctoral, postdoctoral and senior scholars, pays $3,000 for one month between 1 June and 31 August 2028.

Room and half-board at the Institute ($1,750 a month) come out of each award; the rest is paid as a stipend. Fellows live at the Institute throughout and join its lectures and field trips. One application may be put to several awards, though no one is given more than one; former fellows may reapply, but those who have never held one are preferred. Projects on material of unknown provenance, or with an ownership history that breaches the 1970 UNESCO Convention, are excluded. Each award has its own form on the grant portal of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, linked from the Institute's page.

The Albright takes humanities and social-science projects on the southern Levant in any period up to Early Modern times, and in museum studies and heritage management. Research on Cyprus has its own round at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute in Nicosia: graduate fellowships closing on 7 December 2026 and a postdoctoral fellowship in Cypriot prehistory closing on 11 January 2027.

Questions go to the chair of the Albright Fellowship Committee, Cynthia Shafer-Elliott of Baylor University.