Research and Fellowships

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Some 2,000 scholars from around the world travel to The Huntington each year to conduct research in history, literature, botanical science, art history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine.

The scholarship that is carried out in the reading rooms results in academic monographs and scholarly articles, in bestselling and prizewinning books, in acclaimed documentary films, and in many of the history and social studies texts used to educate the nation’s schoolchildren. The Huntington also disseminates research through an extensive program of academic conferences, workshops, seminars, and lectures.

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Fellowships

The Huntington Research Division administers one of the largest and most prestigious fellowship programs for the support of scholarship in the humanities in the United States. Every year more than 150 fellowships are awarded to scholars from all over the world to conduct advanced humanities research using The Huntington’s collections.

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Events

Come learn with us! The Research Division hosts public lectures or academic conferences nearly every week of the academic year. In partnership with the Education Division, we organize the quarterly series Field Notes, which brings audiences in contact with researchers in unexpected settings around The Huntington.