The Crossing Latinidades Mellon Research Fellowship offers a stipend of $30,000 for nine months, along with a tuition waiver, health insurance, and some fees determined by your university.

Fellows must provide three names of faculty members at their university with whom they could complete the faculty research mentorship program by conducting research in their projects for up to 10 hours every week. 

Crossing Latinidades Summer Institute + Participation Stipend:

The Institute provides shared apartment housing on the UIC campus and most of the meals. We offer a stipend of $3,000 to cover travel expenses to the Summer Institute (airfare and local transportation), a few meals not provided by the Institute, all other incidentals, and personal expenses incurred while in Chicago.  

The stipend is paid after the Summer Institute, in accordance with UIC's standard business practices. UIC, however, can facilitate travel arrangements and deduct the amount from the stipend.

Eligibility:

The Crossing Latinidades Predoctoral Research Fellowship is open to all doctoral students in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. They must be completing their second/third year of a Ph.D. by May 2026 and working on future dissertations with U.S. Latino/a topics. Selected applicants work on dissertation prospectuses/proposals during the fellowship year to achieve ABD status by May 2027. 

If applicants are in an MA/PhD program, and have not received an MA degree yet, they must be completing their third/fourth year of the MA/PhD before May 2026 and be ready to prepare for comprehensive examinations and draft and defend dissertation proposals during the fellowship year.

The application is open to U.S. Citizens and U.S. Residents (Green Card Holders).

Deadline: February 1, 2026

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