Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship supports early career scholars in completing ethnographic film, video, audio, or other public media projects based on anthropological research they have already completed. Early career scholars frequently lack the time and resources needed to tell anthropological stories in registers other than print. Through this program, the Wenner-Gren Foundation supports projects that will amplify the impact of anthropology through filmmaking, audio production, and other creative multimodal work. The fellowship provides up to $40,000 for a 9-month stipend toward the completion of projects in the final, post-production stages. The Foundation encourages the use of novel approaches to anthropological communication to reach new audiences and has no preference for any methodology, research location, or subfield. Applicants should have proven expertise and a commitment to innovation in the medium in which they work. This fellowship supports a wide range of projects, from podcasts and video shorts to experimental films, audio ethnographies, and tactile performances, to more classically crafted documentary works. The Foundation encourages new solutions to the challenge of ethically representing diverse communities, including promoting greater involvement of communities in the conception, production and/or distribution of audio/visual projects. The Foundation awards a maximum of four Fejos fellowships annually.