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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.

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Publications

The Huntington Library Quarterly, launched in 1937, is Huntington’s peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400-1800). Verso, The Huntington’s blog takes you behind the scenes for a scholarly view of the collections.  

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Research News

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Welcoming the 2026–27 Huntington Research Fellows

Susan Juster

News from the Director of Research

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Scholars Grove: New in 2027–28

The Huntington annually welcomes approximately 150 long- and short-term research fellows through a competitive, peer-review process. This past spring the Research Division wrapped a busy season of programs with five major conferences and symposia and seven public lectures! Opening in Fall 2027 is Scholars Grove, a residential complex of 33 units. All units are fully furnished and available for rent to fellows arriving in September 2027. Learn more information via the tiles above.

Upcoming Events

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Asian Exclusion and the Battle for Birthright Citizenship

Fri.–Sat., Oct. 2–3 | 9 a.m.–3 p.m.

This conference contextualizes efforts to restrict and strip birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants ineligible to naturalize within the context of Asian American history. It will bring together scholars from legal history, Asian American Studies, and the history of the U.S. West to investigate decades-long campaigns against birthright citizenship.

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Race & Power in Early Los Angeles: In Conversation with Dan Lynch

Sept. 17, 2026
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The Boundless Biddy Mason: In Conversation with Kevin Waite & Marne Campbell

Sept. 24, 2026
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Racist by Design: In Conversation with Kelly Lytle Hernández & Bill Deverell

Dec. 3, 2026

Recorded Events

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Videos and Recorded Programs

Shapiro Lecture: Democracy and the Declaration of Across 250 Years

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Poetic Education and the Practice of Freedom

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Jane Austen’s Alchemy: Cosmetic Artifice in Austen’s 'Persuasion'

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Mapping the Archives of Pacific Islander Eco-Poetry

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United Queendom: Adapting the Tudors through SIX and Historical Collections

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Libraries as Communities of Desire

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A Print of a Chinese Theater in California: A Life History

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Archival Captivity Narratives: Who's Capturing Whom in Comanche Archives?

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Inventor of Magic Food: The Life and Legacy of Filipina Food Scientist Maria Ylagan Orosa

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Shapiro Book Prize Lecture - “Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson”

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American Affections: The Life, Loves, and Letters of Mary Fish

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Life’s “Continual Vibrations”: Asian American Artists and the Natural World

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Early Books’ Migration: European Upheaval and American Collections

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Patriarchy and Race in Late 17th-Century England

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Out of the Woodwork: U.S. Forests and Black Cultures, 1800–1940

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The Mormons in Black and White: Racial Mixing among the Latter-day Saints

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Breaking Curfew: Everyday Japanese American Resistance during World War II

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The Whites-Only Immigration Regime

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Goya’s Portraits and a New Prize for The Huntington

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The Other California: Land, Loss, Labor, Liberated Futures along Phantom Shores

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Underrepresented Voices in the Archive