National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

The National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports up to 30 early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. These $70,000 fellowships support non-residential postdoctoral proposals that make significant scholarly contributions to the field of education. Scholars may conduct their research at their home institution or at another research site that they have arranged.

Fellowship recipients have included individuals from anthropology, architecture, art history, communications, economics, education, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, public health, religion, and sociology (although the fellowship does not limit eligibility to these fields). Candidates should demonstrate their interest in conducting education research long term.

Eligibility

• Applicants must have received their PhD, EdD, or equivalent research degree
• Applicants may not hold tenure status at the time of the application deadline.
• Applications must be made by the individual applying for the fellowship. Group applications will not be accepted.
• The proposed project must be a research project.