Application Information
Apply now for a National Park Service Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship. Information on the application process, eligibility requirements, and host sites is available via the link below.
The National Park Service (NPS), the National Park Foundation (NPF), and American Conservation Experience (ACE) invite scholars who received their doctorate within the last five years to apply for a two-year NPS Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral fellowship. This opportunity is generously supported by a grant from The Mellon Foundation.
The program places recent humanities PhDs with NPS sites and programs across the agency. Its aim is to advance the NPS education mission through new scholarship in the humanities.
Since 2018, the work of the Mellon Fellows has had an impact on dozens of park units and agency programs. Public programming developed by the fellows has reached a wide audience beyond the NPS, with special event series focused on monuments, memorials, and historical memory as well as gender, race, class, and the vote.
In summer 2022, the Mellon Foundation announced an expansion of the program that includes support for an additional thirty postdoctoral fellowships. Applications are now being accepted for a cohort of fifteen (15) fellows.
Learn more about the 2018-2021 Mellon Fellows and their contributions to the NPS and its partners.
Meet the 2018-2021 Mellon Fellows
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Dr. Mia Carey
Mellon Fellow in the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
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Dr. Sylvea Hollis
Mellon Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Equality
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Dr. Eleanor Mahoney
Mellon Fellow in the History of Labor and Productivity
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Dr. Emma Silverman
Mellon Fellow in the Legacy of Monuments and Memory
Featured Projects
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Public Event Series and PodcastMonumental Labor
Explore how histories of work and working people have been remembered at monuments and memorials.
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Research and WritingExploring the Meaning of Black Womanhood
Black women have always served on the front-line in the fight for equality. This article series explores their stories.
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Women's Equality Day 2020 LectureSuffrage from 1848 to 2020
Reflections on the commemoration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment. For what purposes did women mobilize for political rights?
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PodcastBallot Blocked
Trace the history of women's voting rights before and after the 19th amendment in this six-part podcast series.
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Digital StorytellingMarching for Justice in the Fields
In 1966, striking farmworkers in California made history when they set out on a 300-mile march to the state capital in Sacramento.
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Public Event SeriesThe Lives of Monuments
Explore the histories and contemporary significance of Revolutionary War Monuments in National Parks.