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The 2025-26 application portal is now closed. Information about the 2026-27 Fellowship cycle will be available in the summer of 2025.

Each year the Institute brings together a cohort of 14 Fellows, half of them Columbia faculty and post-docs, the other half artists and writers from around the world, to spend a year together in work and conversation.

The Fellowship stipend is $75,000 for a full academic year at Reid Hall in Paris (September 2025 through May 2026). Fellows also have their own office at the Institute, administrative and research support, and access to Columbia’s libraries and various research facilities in Paris and in Europe.

We accept two categories of applicants. You will be asked to indicate under which category you are applying.

Creative artists of all kinds (including visual artists, film-makers, writers, composers, poets, and others), from anywhere in the world excluding US residents*. Creative writers (novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, essayists) must demonstrate a record of publication; visual artists, musicians, and sound artists must have a significant body of work that has been exhibited or performed in public. There are no higher education requirements for this category of applicant.

Faculty and recent PhDs from Columbia University (plus Barnard College and Teachers’ College). Tenured and tenure-track University faculty from any School are eligible as are adjunct teaching faculty whose appointment extends beyond the fellowship year. At least one fellowship annually may be awarded to a recent Columbia PhD who has defended their dissertation between September 1, 2022 and December 31, 2024. Faculty should notify their department chairs or Dean of their intention to apply for this fellowship. The Institute staff can, upon request, direct applicants to the appropriate university office to discuss the financial implications of an award. Only faculty are eligible to apply for a single semester fellowship.

Please note: We cannot accommodate groups.

Application materials include:

*Eligibility is a question of residency, not citizenship.

If you are a US resident, you are not eligible to apply regardless of your citizenship(s).

If you are a US citizen whose permanent residence is located outside of the United States you are eligible to apply.