Fellowships

The Moishe Postone Legacy Project currently has a limited amount of funds available to support researchers wishing to work in the Moishe Postone archive at the University of Chicago with small travel grants. 

These grants will contribute up to a maximum of $1000 to the costs of reasonable and necessary travel and/or accommodation, depending on need, length of stay and costs of travel. Preference will be given to applicants without access to alternative funding and/or in fixed-term, part-time or no employment. Applications are welcome from researchers within and outside of academia. 

Upcoming deadlines‍ ‍

• October 26, 2026

• April 1, 2027

Application process

Please submit the following documents, as a single pdf attachment, to mpostone.legacy@gmail.com. Please include “Travel Grant” in the subject line.

• A brief description of your research interests and the project you are working on, and of possible outcomes (publications, events, theses, artwork, etc.) 

• An itemized budget for travel and accommodation costs

• A short CV or Resumé (2 pages max)

After the end of your trip

MPLP will reimburse your travel costs up to the awarded sum. For that, we would ask you to provide us with: 

• Travel receipts

• A short report about your research and outcomes. 

Please keep in mind that the grants are intended to help as many researchers as possible to visit the archive. Since funds are limited, we ask applicants who have access to university or other institutional support to consider those sources as well. Researchers may also wish to investigate the University of Chicago’s Platzman Fellowship for work in Special Collections.