Fellowships
Graduate Fellowships | Post-Doctoral Fellowship | Travel Grants
Graduate Fellowships
If you are a Columbia graduate student interested in any of the fellowships described below, please download an application (PDF).
Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies Fellowships
The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies fellowships are awarded to students pursuing graduate degrees in any of the four departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offering Jewish studies (History, Religion, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures) as well as to students within the Columbia community who are writing dissertations on Jewish topics. Applications are to be completed and submitted to the institute office by April 15 each year.
Bloom Fellowship
The Bloom Fellowship was established in 1998 with the generous gift of Bernard (of blessed memory) and his lovely wife Muriel Bloom to provide financial assistance to a graduate student in Jewish history. The recipient is chosen from the applicants to the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies fellowship program.
Hoffman Fellowship
The Hoffman Fellowship was established in 1993 with a gift from Mary Franklin in memory of her sister Louise Hoffman. This fellowship provides financial aid to a deserving graduate student pursuing a degree in the study of Jewish history, Hebrew language and literature, Yiddish studies, or Judaism. The recipient is chosen from the applicants to the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies fellowship program.
Fromer Fellowship
The Fromer Fellowship was established in 1994 with a gift from Dr. Carl Fromer in memory of his mother Irene C. Fromer, and is to be given to a deserving graduate student in Jewish studies researching ancient Jewish history. The recipient is chosen from the applicants to the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies fellowship program.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship for 2009-2010
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE FOR ISRAEL AND JEWISH STUDIES
announces a full-year post-doctoral fellowship for the academic year 2009-2010. The fellowship will consist of a stipend of $50,000, with an additional $10,000 subsidy which can be used for airfare and/or housing. This fellowship is open to scholars in all fields not currently taught by our permanent or visiting faculty (see our website at www.iijs.columbia.edu).
Requirements are a Ph.D. granted between January 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009, and an excellent command of Hebrew. Fellows will be expected to be in residence at Columbia between September 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010, to teach one undergraduate seminar per semester, and to give one public lecture during their fellowship period.
Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and syllabus for a proposed course, and the names of three references VIA EMAIL ONLY to Ms. Malka Gold, mg27@columbia.edu, by February 15, 2009. If the Ph.D. has not yet been granted, please also include a letter from the academic sponsor attesting to the fact that it will be granted by 6/30/09. Please do not send any references or any other written materials or attachments. Columbia University is an equal opportunity employer and encourages the applications of women and minorities.
This fellowship has been made possible by the Stanley A. and Barbara B. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship Fund and by Lauren and J. Ezra Merkin.
Travel Grants
The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies would like announce that it will consider applications for travel grant awards for students who are presenting research at academic or professional conferences. Eligibility information is below. To apply please use the forms available below or contact Sheridan Gayer, SJG41@columbia.edu for further information. You must be a current student of Columbia University, and the subject matter of the paper must be within one of the fields within the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. Please review the application and check list in order to prepare the submission.
IIJS Graduate Student Travel Grant Application (download)
IIJS Travel Faculty Adviser Consent Form (download)
December 2008 Travel Grant Recipients:
Agnieszka Legutko Olownia – Yiddish Department,
“Possessed by the Other: A Gendered View on (Spirit) Possession in Modern Jewish Literature”, at Association of Jewish Studies Conference, 12/20-12/23, 2008.
James Chappel – History Department,
“Reading Israel: Philosophy, Hermenutics, and Galut in Isaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss”, at the Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, August 2009.