Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship
Date and Time
Full application and instructions are available on the Brandeis website.
Please note that the internal deadline for submission is February 16.
The Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship provides support to students in the visual and fine arts, including art history, conservation, studio art and photography, for travel and living expenses outside the continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii in accordance with a program of independent study or other activities approved by the fellowship selection committee.
The $19,000 fellowships are funded by income from the Mortimer and Sara Hays Endowment at Brandeis University.
The deadline for applications will be set by each participating undergraduate institution. If you are nominated by your undergraduate institution, your institutional representative will provide you with the application form to be sent to Brandeis in March.
Eligibility and Evaluation
To be eligible for the Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, an individual must have received an undergraduate degree, no more than three years prior to the start of the fellowship year, from any one of the following institutions:
- Brandeis University
- Boston University
- The City College of New York/CUNY
- Columbia University
- Connecticut College
- Gallaudet University
- Harvard University
- Rochester Institute of Technology/NTID
- Wesleyan University
- Yale University
Graduating seniors are eligible to apply, but must receive their undergraduate degree prior to the start of the fellowship year on July 1.
The fellowship supports independent travel and study. Recipients may not be enrolled in graduate school during the fellowship year.
The fellowship year runs from July 1 to the following June 30.
Details on how to apply can be found on the Brandeis website.